Open consultation The Future Homes Standard: changes to Part L and Part F of the Building Regulations for new dwellings

[George Miles]

Summary Consultation on the uplift to standards of Part L of the Building Regulations and changes to Part F. This uplift is the first step in achieving the Future Homes Standards.

This consultation closes at

11:45pm on 7 February 2020

Consultation description This consultation sets out our plans for the Future Homes Standard, including proposed options to increase the energy efficiency requirements for new homes in 2020. The Future Homes Standard will require new build homes to be future-proofed with low carbon heating and world-leading levels of energy efficiency; it will be introduced by 2025.

This document is the first stage of a two-part consultation about proposed changes to the Building Regulations. It also covers the wider impacts of Part L for new homes, including changes to Part F (ventilation), its associated Approved Document guidance, airtightness and improving as-built performance of the constructed home.

Supporting documents:

Impact assessment Approved Documents L and F: draft guidance Research into ventilation and indoor air quality in new homes Research into overheating in new homes

[The Natural Philosopher]

more f****ng ecobollox

[Max Demian]

What's 'overheating'? >18 °C?

[Steve Walker]

Elderly people dying in very hot weather and everyone else being unable to sleep.

SteveW

[John Kenyon]

Nope - it's where the ecobollox results in air tight, hyper insulated houses end up being too hot for their inhabitants.

Or put another way, imagine a 1970s house being heated by storage heaters, and then the weather suddenly turns cold. (=freezing your chuff off, while watching Some Mother's Do Ave'em)

Then turn it on its head - you have an well insulated house kept at a good temperature, heated by the activity of its residents and waste heat from appliances, and the weather suddenly turns warm. (=trying to get to sleep in a roasting house)

[Jeff Layman]

Seems to me that current housebuilders have a problem in building houses that achieve even current standards.

And they aren't the only ones.

[harry]

About time too. I have had such a house for over ten years.

[tim...]

open the ****ing windows then

tim

[tim...]

IME it is poorly insulated houses that suffer from over heating, not well insulated ones

tim

[Richard]

How aesthetically pleasing is it?

[George Miles]

badly insulated and ventilated houses are too hot in hot summer days and too cold on winter nights, modern insulation lets the house keep more to an average temperature night and day, and if the house is more airtight then the ventilation can be constant however windy or not it is. And this saves heating bills, and the nation/planet from burning even more oil. win / win / win

george