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Feb 1, 2023 · In 2025, compliance with the Future Homes Standard (FHS) will become mandatory. Its aim is to ensure that new homes built from 2025 will produce 75-80% less carbon emissions than homes built under the current Building Regulations.
Jan 5, 2024 · What is the Future Homes Standard? The Future Homes Standard, renamed the Future Homes and Buildings Standard in December 2021, will complement the Building Regulations to ensure new homes built from 2025 produce 75-80% less carbon emissions than homes delivered under the old regulations.
Launching in 2025, the Future Homes Standard (FHS) revolutionizes UK new builds. FHS slashes carbon emissions by 75-80%, prioritizes low-carbon heating, and focuses on super-insulated, energy-efficient homes.
Jun 15, 2022 · Check what’s changed with the new building regulations and what’s coming with the introduction of the Future Homes Standard in 2025. New regulations came into force in England on 15 June 2022. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are introducing their own changes.
- What Happens Next?
- The Good News
- Does The Future Homes Standard Go Far Enough?
- Looking Forward
The government will first update the Building Regulations later this year to ensure new homes built from 2022 produce 31% less carbon emissions compared to current standards. In 2023 the government will consult about technical aspects of the Future Homes Standard before updating the Regulations again to come into force in 2025. Unfortunately, some ...
The government also made a commitment to ensure that once a new house has been built, no refurbishment will be necessary to reach zero-carbon as the electricity grid continues to decarbonise – and no new home built under the Future Homes Standard will be reliant on fossil fuels. It’s positive to see that several of the key RIBA’s recommendations ou...
While a 75-80% reduction in carbon emissions is welcome, we’d like to see government implement specific targets for carbon emissions, rather than continuing to compare emissions from existing buildings. Disappointingly – and quite significantly – the government has made no commitment calculating the operational energy or embodied carbon of new home...
As well as publishing the outcome of the Future Homes Standard consultation, the government has also announced a new consultation – the Future Building Standard– which will look at measures to improve the energy efficiency of non-domestic buildings (when building from scratch and retrofitting), overheating in new homes and improving energy efficien...
Aug 27, 2024 · The Future Homes Standard (FHS) is a proposed change to the Building Regulations which is expected to come into effect in England in 2025. The new standard forms part of a larger effort to reduce carbon emissions from buildings.
Sep 20, 2024 · The Future Homes Standard (FHS) is a landmark UK government initiative aimed at drastically improving the energy efficiency and environmental impact of new homes.
