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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Sustainable Business New Homes Environmental Metrics
| Corporate Reporting & 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 & 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 & 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
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Production and Construction Embodied and Whole Life Carbon of FHS Options Report
| Embodied & Whole Life Carbon
Since the publication of the Future Homes Standard consultation in December 2023, developers have been working to identify likely specifications that will enable their house types to achieve Part L requirements.
2025-03-01
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Homes Lessons learned from delivering FHS homes at scale
| Consumer
As part of the Future Homes Standard Implementation Plan, the Future Homes Hub Consumer Implementation Group developed learning material that mapped the consumer journey.
2025-01-17
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Sustainable Business One Plan: Scaling Up Delivery
| Net Zero
This report takes stock of the new homes community’s progress towards UK climate and environmental targets.
2024-12-01
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Homes Low carbon homes: trials and demonstrators
The Future Homes Hub launched the first version of our low carbon homes trials and demonstrators map in 2023 with the aim of sharing information about the vast array of tests, trials and pilot work being undertaken by homebuilders across the country in preparation for the Future Homes Standard.
2024-09-01
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Homes The Lovell Tomorrow Home
| Consumer
In preparation for the new Future Homes Standard regulation, Lovell has purpose built two eco-friendly trial homes, called Tomorrow Home, at Cornish Park in Spennymoor.
2024-08-16
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Place and Nature BNG Online guidance for small developers
| Biodiversity Net Gain
BNG online is a partnership between the Planning Advisory Service and the Future Homes Hub, to help Local Planning Authorities
2024-04-01
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Production and Construction Part O 2021: Simplified Method Spreadsheet Tool
| Building Regulations
The Future Homes Hub has created a spreadsheet tool to make the process of determining compliance with Part O much easier.
2024-02-26
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Sustainable Business Future Homes: One Plan
| Net Zero
The Future Homes Hub's One Plan report sets out the industry’s pathway to building a generation of high quality, affordable and sustainable homes and communities.
2023-11-23
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Place and Nature Biodiversity Unit Finder Map
| Biodiversity Net Gain
The Biodiversity Unit Finder is to help homebuilders and other developers connect with landowners, land managers and others developing and selling biodiversity units under Biodiversity Net Gain.
2023-10-11
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Production and Construction Building Performance Evaluation: A guide for housebuilders and their advisors
| Building Performance Evaluation
Building performance evaluation is a way to assess how buildings perform in practice. It can help demonstrate whether the expected building performance has been delivered.
2023-09-01
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Production and Construction Part O 2021 (England): Dynamic Thermal Modelling
| Building Regulations
The Future Homes Hub has produced this guide to help explain the potential advantages of using Dynamic Thermal Modelling to demonstrate compliance with Building Regulations Approved Document O - Overheating 2021.
2023-08-03
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Production and Construction Part S 2021: EV charging infrastructure for new homes
| Building Regulations
Under Part S of the Building Regulations in England, all relevant new build properties with car parking must have charge points for electric vehicles.
2023-04-26
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Production and Construction Part L 2021: A guide for housebuilders and their advisors - timber construction
| Building Regulations
This guide is intended for housebuilders, designers and others involved in the development of new homes in England.
2023-04-24
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Production and Construction Part L 2021: A guide for housebuilders and their advisors - masonry construction
| Building Regulations
This guide is intended to help housebuilders, designers, and others involved in the development of new homes to understand the 2021 changes to Approved Document L – Conservation of fuel and power in new dwellings in England (ADL 2021).
2023-04-24
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Production and Construction Implementation Plan: Embodied and Whole Life Carbon 2023-2025
| Embodied & Whole Life Carbon
This report summarises a first phase of work undertaken by the homebuilding industry in collaboration with relevant government, expert and stakeholder bodies through the Future Homes Hub (FHH) to tackle embodied and whole life carbon in new homes.
2023-01-01
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Sustainable Business Supply chain for low carbon homes
| Supply Chain
This report provides an initial assessment of some of the most important technologies needed to meet the Future Homes Standard and build zero carbon homes.
2022-10-01
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Sustainable Business Future Homes Delivery Roadmap
| Net Zero
The living roadmap shows the current view of the sector-wide projects and programmes that will be undertaken through Future Homes Hub to meet the goals in the Delivery plan with a focus on the current business period 2022-2025.
2021-07-27
























