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Consumer and Future Homes Standard Selling a new low energy home - hints & tips for sales negotiators & estate agents

Published as part of the Future Homes Standard Essentials series, this guide has been designed to help sales teams ensure that the homebuyer is aware of these differences, and is able to get the very best from their home when they move in.

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Future Homes Standard Grid connections for all-electric houses: hints & tips for SME homebuilders

This guide outlines the activities and information required for a grid application, and provides detail on where to find the technical resources to help set up a development for success.

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Future Homes Standard Delivering homes with heat pumps: hints & tips for homebuilders

This guide provides hints and tips on key topics associated with the deployment of heat pumps in new build homes.

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Consumer and Future Homes Standard Selling a new low energy home - hints & tips for sales negotiators & estate agents

| Sales and marketing

Published as part of the Future Homes Standard Essentials series, this guide has been designed to help sales teams ensure that the homebuyer is aware of these differences, and is able to get the very best from their home when they move in.

2026-03-04
Future Homes Standard Grid connections for all-electric houses: hints & tips for SME homebuilders

| Grid capacity and connections

This guide outlines the activities and information required for a grid application, and provides detail on where to find the technical resources to help set up a development for success.

2026-03-03
Future Homes Standard Heat pump commissioning: hints & tips for homebuilders

| Low carbon heating

Part of the Future Homes Standard Essentials series, this guide draws on real lessons learned by homebuilders and addresses the key factors leading up to, and during commissioning that are known to strongly affect outcomes.

2026-03-03
Future Homes Standard Heat pumps: hints & tips for site managers

| Low carbon heating

Designed to be printed and used on site, this resource provides a practical, visual A3 checklist to support right-first-time heat pump installation on live building sites.

2026-03-03
Future Homes Standard Delivering homes with heat pumps: hints & tips for homebuilders

| Low carbon heating

This guide provides hints and tips on key topics associated with the deployment of heat pumps in new build homes.

2026-02-27
Future Homes Standard and Sustainable Business Heating system procurement: hints & tips for procuring heat pumps in low density homes

Skills and training | Low carbon heating

This guide draws on real procurement lessons learned from early adopters of heat pumps and has been developed to address the root causes of commonly observed failures.

2026-02-27
Future Homes Standard Integrating heat pumps: hints & tips for architects & architectural technologists

| Low carbon heating

Integrating Heat Pumps provides architects and architectural technologists a clear, accessible entry point to heat pump-ready design while avoiding duplication of detailed external standards.

2026-01-28
Embodied Carbon and Resource Efficiency Benchmarking Report: Embodied and Whole Life Carbon of New Homes

| Measuring 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
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
Future Homes Standard Powering the Future of Sustainable Homes

| Grid capacity and connections

In this short film, we explore some of the challenges and opportunities associated with the electrification of heat and transport.

2025-11-14
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
Consumer and Future Homes Standard Homebuyer customer journey for low energy homes: hints & tips for homebuilders

| Sales and marketing

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
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
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
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
Embodied Carbon and Resource Efficiency Future Homes Carbon Assessment Tool

| Measuring 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
Embodied Carbon and Resource Efficiency Whole Life Carbon Conventions for New Homes

| Measuring 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
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
Building Regulations 2021 Part O 2021: Builders and Technical Guidance

| Overheating

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
Embodied Carbon and Resource Efficiency Embodied and Whole Life Carbon of FHS Options Report

| Onsite carbon reduction

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
Consumer and Future Homes Standard Lessons learned from delivering FHS homes at scale

| Sales and marketing

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
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
Future Homes Standard Low carbon homes: trials and demonstrators

| Case study

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
Future Homes Standard The Lovell Tomorrow Home

| Case study

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
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
Building Regulations 2021 Part O 2021: Simplified Method Spreadsheet Tool

| Overheating

The Future Homes Hub has created a spreadsheet tool to make the process of determining compliance with Part O much easier.

2024-02-26
Consumer and Future Homes Standard Householder guidance: buying a new low energy home (heat pump edition)

Sales and marketing | Low carbon heating

'Buying a new low energy home - heat pump edition' highlights the features and benefits of a low energy home.

2024-01-01
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
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
Building Regulations 2021 Building Performance Evaluation: A guide for homebuilders 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
Building Regulations 2021 Part O 2021 (England): Dynamic Thermal Modelling

| Overheating

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
Building Regulations 2021 Part S 2021: EV charging infrastructure for new homes

| Electric vehicles

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
Building Regulations 2021 Part L 2021: A guide for housebuilders and their advisors - timber construction

| Heat and power

This guide is intended for housebuilders, designers and others involved in the development of new homes in England.

2023-04-24
Building Regulations 2021 Part L 2021: A guide for housebuilders and their advisors - masonry construction

| Heat and power

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
Embodied Carbon and Resource Efficiency Implementation Plan: Embodied and Whole Life Carbon 2023-2025

| Onsite carbon reduction

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
Future Homes Standard and 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
Building Regulations 2021 and Consumer Building regulations and the new home user guide

| Sales and marketing

A Home User Guide (HUG) is a mandatory document under Part L of the Building Regulations for new dwellings in England and Wales, providing homeowners with non-technical advice on operating and maintaining their home's energy-efficient systems.

2022-06-26

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