Current projects
Future Homes Standard 2025: delivery at scale
ROADMAP GOAL
Homes that are zero-carbon ready
Purpose
To facilitate collaboration between homebuilders, the Government and other partners to help ensure the best solutions are considered in designing the Standard; and then that it can be implemented at scale safely, cost effectively and with customers at the centre.
Context
Following consultation in 2023, Government intends to publish the Future Homes Standard (FHS) in 2024 and then bring it into force in 2025. All new homes will then be 'zero carbon-ready', meaning that they will be zero carbon once the electricity grid has been decarbonised.
The Future Homes Hub is uniquely placed to bring together the home-building and partner sectors to investigate the potential specifications and technology options available to build zero-carbon homes and assess their viability, the challenges and solutions to mass scale deployment.
We then plan to forecast what technologies will be used and work with Government on the 'critical enablers' supply chain, skills and infrastructure to help prepare for delivery at scale. We will also facilitate sharing of tests, trials and evaluations to help accelerate learning across the sector.
Planned projects and output
- Developing a cross-industry working group to help inform government's consultation on the FHS.
- Support the Government by reviewing and testing the Approved Documents before they are published.
- Create guidance, design tools and develop the partnerships required to support the sector in delivering the FHS at scale
Timescales
The critical action is to convene the task group to provide industry-led insight that will inform the consultation on Part L 2025. As well as helping to shape the government’s consultation, it will determine the enabling requirements of skills, customer and supply chain that can help to address the key constraints. Following the consultation response, the FHH will convene further task and finish groups that can develop tools to support industry and provide further insight to government prior to final publication of the Future Homes Standard.
Participants
A task group has been established that will investigate and report findings to DLUCH on the FHS 2025 to inform the consultation.
The terms of reference received from Government can be found here.
A number of working groups are being set up to carry out the evidence gathering process. The full list can be seen in the project brief, available here.