Lunch & Learn: Delivering homes with heat pumps
Part of the Future Homes Standard Essentials Series
Date / Time:
Friday 15 May 2026, 1-2pm
What is the webinar about?
The Future Homes Standard represents a fundamental shift in how new homes are designed, built, commissioned and supported. Central to this is the move away from fossil-fuel boilers to low carbon heating systems, often in the form of heat pumps where the lower temperatures require high levels of construction and heating system precision to deliver the required level of performance.
Feedback from homebuilders who have moved early to heat pump deployment highlights a number of key factors that significantly reduce delivery risk and improve outcomes – both commercially and for customers.
Get the latest hints and tips from industry experts on the key topics that must be addressed from heating and fabric design through to installation, construction and commissioning.
Host: David Adams, Strategic Advisor to the Future Homes Hub
David shares his expertise in low‑energy building and manufacturing to help housebuilders and the wider construction industry deliver net zero homes at scale.
With a broad base of experience across retrofit, new home building, manufacturing and policy, David Adams brings a strategic perspective to the transition to net zero homes. He is a Strategic Advisor to the Future Homes Hub, a Director of the Good Homes Alliance, and an advisor to the UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) and the Energy Efficiency Infrastructure Group (EEIG).
Louis Stupple-Harris, Strategic Partnerships Lead, Mission Discovery, Nesta
Louis is the foresight engagement lead within Nesta’s Mission Discovery, which aims to create a link between Nesta’s current portfolio and our pipeline of future work. Louis looks at how emerging technology shapes and is shaped by some of the biggest challenges we face today.
He previously explored the environmental impact of the internet for Nesta's NGI Forward project, and before that he campaigned for policies to make science and technology more diverse and inclusive. He set up the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Diversity and Inclusion in STEM, and explored the relationships that people from diverse backgrounds have with science and technology. He has also conducted research into job automation, fracking, and the views of young people on the climate crisis.