From 2025, the proposed Future Homes Standard will ban gas boilers in new build homes and require more stringent building energy efficiency requirements – all with the aim of reducing carbon emissions by 80%.
Two complete Baxi Assure ASHP systems will be installed at 'Project 80' in Handsworth, Birmingham, which aims to meet the Future Homes Standard three years ahead of schedule. The project is led by housing association Midland Heart.
The houses will be lived in by families and will be a ‘living lab’ to test how they manage in their futuristic homes. The evidence gathered will help to inform how developers and their suppliers adapt to the standard ahead of an expected technical consultation in 2023.
ASHPs are a low-carbon energy technology that reverses the refrigeration process to take the warmth from the air outside (even when it’s freezing) and use it to heat homes.
The homes are due for completion by Easter 2022, three years ahead of the Government’s target.
Baxi ASHP development manager Ryan Kirkwood said: “Our involvement in Project 80 will demonstrate how our air source heat pumps can make an important contribution to lowering greenhouse gas emissions in new homes.
“We will also gain insights from monitoring how people adapt to living in these homes that will help us to solve the complex energy transition.”
Baxi is already supporting customers by offering clever heating solutions that keep their homes and businesses warm while reducing their carbon footprint.
It is continuing to develop products and solutions that will help customers to heat their homes and businesses without warming the planet.