Welcome to the Knowledge Centre
This site has been created to provide house builders and their advisors with the latest guidance on how to design and build the next generation of more sustainable homes.
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Sustainable Business New Homes Environmental Metrics
The New Homes Environmental Metrics provide a consistent set of environmental measures for the home building sector, establishing a common language to describe sustainability performance.
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Homes The Home Buyer Customer Journey Guide
This guide is a practical toolkit for sales and marketing teams - those at the sharp end of the industry who introduce residents to their new Future Homes Standard homes.
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Place and Nature BNG Good Practice Guidance
The Future Homes Hub has created a Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) Good Practice Guide, a vital new resource designed to cut through the noise and provide clear, actionable steps for the homebuilding sector.
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Production and Construction Benchmarking Report: Embodied and Whole Life Carbon of New Homes
| Embodied and whole life carbon
The Whole Life Carbon (WLC) Benchmarking Report 2025 is a snapshot of whole life carbon assessments from new homes projects, developed to enable the sector to benchmark the current performance of new homes more accurately.
2025-11-25
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Place and Nature Accelerating the Delivery of Sustainable Places
| Design quality
In this short film, we explore some of the challenges of delivering quality developments at scale and the opportunity to create a strong sense of place by focusing on building variation and distinctiveness through design.
2025-11-14
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Homes Powering the Future of Sustainable Homes
| Zero Carbon Ready Homes
In this short film, we explore some of the challenges and opportunities associated with the electrification of heat and transport.
2025-11-14
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Sustainable Business New Homes Environmental Metrics
| Corporate reporting and metrics
The New Homes Environmental Metrics provide a consistent set of environmental measures for the home building sector, establishing a common language to describe sustainability performance.
2025-10-01
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Homes The Home Buyer Customer Journey Guide
| Consumer
This guide is a practical toolkit for sales and marketing teams - those at the sharp end of the industry who introduce residents to their new Future Homes Standard homes.
2025-09-29
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Place and Nature Homes for Nature Guidance
| Nature Recovery
Homes for Nature is an initiative developed by the Future Homes Hub’s On-Site Nature Measures Working Group and is in addition to the Biodiversity Net Gain regulations.
2025-07-01
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Place and Nature BNG Best Practice Process Flow
| Biodiversity net gain
The process flow is intended to provide guidance on the steps required to implement BNG on residential projects of all sizes and complexities.
2025-06-25
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Place and Nature BNG Good Practice Guidance
| Biodiversity net gain
The Future Homes Hub has created a Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) Good Practice Guide, a vital new resource designed to cut through the noise and provide clear, actionable steps for the homebuilding sector.
2025-06-25
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Production and Construction Future Homes Carbon Assessment Tool
| Embodied and whole life carbon
The Future Homes Hub has created the carbon calculator to simplify carbon calculations for low and medium-rise buildings. It helps
2025-05-01
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Production and Construction Whole Life Carbon Conventions for New Homes
| Embodied and whole life carbon
The Future Homes Hub Whole Life Carbon Conventions for New Homes aim to help businesses across the sector share and report whole life carbon assessments on a consistent basis.
2025-05-01
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Sustainable Business Net Zero Transition Plan
| Net Zero
The purpose of this sector level transition plan is to provide a shared pathway and framework for the whole sector to reach net zero emissions.
2025-04-01
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Production and Construction Part O 2021: Builders and Technical Guidance
| Building regulations
This ‘where to start’ guide and accompanying Technical Guidance is intended to help everybody involved in the development of new homes to understand the new Approved Document O - Overheating in new dwellings in England.
2025-03-13
