The path to cleaner greener homes through a changing regulatory landscape

With the Future Homes and Buildings Standard  set to come into effect in 2025, partner in BDB Pitmans’ real estate team and Head of Newbuild, Jeremy Davy, looks at the work being done as part of an industry-wide effort to meet the climate challenge head-on in an article for Property Wire.

Early in the New Year, the launch of ‘Energy House 2.0’, a £16 million research facility conceived by the University of Salford, was widely reported by the media, including BBC Breakfast. The facility has two chambers, each able to accommodate two detached houses in a controlled environment that can simulate a wide variety of weather conditions, including extremes of temperature, wind, rain, snow and solar radiation. In partnership with Bellway Homes, Barratt Developments and Saint-Gobain, two detached three-bedroom test houses have been built inside Chamber 1 and the process of testing new technologies for powering, heating and insulating homes is underway. There’s no time to waste because, when it comes to the energy efficiency of new homes, the regulatory landscape is changing.

To read the article in full, please visit the Property Wire website.

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