Future Homes Conference 2025
Breakout Sessions
Hosted by Evan Davis, and sponsored by Lloyds, Homes England and NHBC, the Future Homes Conference brings together 500+ leaders from across housing, government, finance, local authorities and the supply chain to accelerate delivery of sustainable homes.
As part of the programme, you’ll take part in two breakouts - one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Please review the four options below and select your top two. We’ll allocate you to an AM and a PM session. (If we don’t receive your preferences by the deadline, we’ll allocate you to available sessions.)
Sessions include:
1 | Delivering the Future Homes Standard (FHS): from pilots to scale
What this session covers:
How homebuilders and partners are preparing to deliver the Future Homes Standard at scale — example specs, early lessons, and where innovation is unlocking progress.
Key discussion points:
- Consumer journey: benefits, concerns, and making the switch simple
- Innovation: rewards, risks and how to de-risk adoption
- Scaling up: grid connections; heat networks and enabling technologies
- Working with the supply chain on readiness and upskilling
- Embedding relevant lessons from delivering Part L 2021 homes (e.g. fabric and junction performance)
- What current trials and demonstrators are telling us
You'll come away with:
A clear view of what “good” preparation looks like, proven practices to reduce delivery risk, and ideas to accelerate FHS-ready sites.
Speaker's panellists
2 | Nature Restoration: delivering nature-rich places at scale
What this session covers:
How to deliver nature-friendly development within a changing policy landscape - balancing on-site outcomes, off-site solutions and long-term stewardship.
Key discussion points:
- Meeting multiple green-infrastructure requirements efficiently
- Resident experience: engagement, satisfaction and behaviour change
- Delivering strong nature outcomes on smaller sites
- Getting the balance right: on-site improvements vs. off-site payments/offsets
- Funding and frameworks that enable strategic, long-term restoration
You'll come away with:
Practical strategies to embed nature outcomes in real schemes, plus routes to secure, fund and maintain longterm stewardship.
Speaker's panellists
3 | Managing Water: towards water-smart communities
What this session covers:
The innovations and policies needed to deliver integrated water management for new homes - from in-home efficiency to neighbourhood-scale solutions.
Key discussion points:
- Delivering water efficiency in the home
- Coherent, system-wide policies that align regulators, water companies and developers
- Resident satisfaction and engagement
- Enhancing placemaking through blue-green infrastructure
- How to recognise and reward leaders who go further
You'll come away with:
A roadmap of near-term actions and partnerships to future-proof developments against a changing climate and water landscape.
Speaker's panellists
4 | Reducing Embodied Carbon: strategies, standards and scale
What this session covers:
How developers, contractors and suppliers can reduce embodied carbon at scale - what’s practical now, what’s
coming next, and how to align requirements.
Key discussion points:
- Why embodied carbon reduction matters commercially and strategically
- Innovations and materials coming through and their scalability
- Consistent asks from clients and local authorities
- Cutting construction-phase impacts on site
- Lessons from international exemplars and supply-chain perspectives
- How developers, contractors and manufacturers collaborate effectively
You'll come away with:
Concrete steps to integrate embodied-carbon reduction into programmes and procurement - with examples,
tools and collaboration models.
Speaker's panellists
