Change is now here for domestic heating

By Max Halliwell, Communications Manager for Mitsubishi Electric’s Heating & Ventilation Systems

With changes to the building regulations, heat pumps become a more automatic choice for housing developers

We’ve just held our second ‘Transforming the Housing Technology Mindset’ seminar which saw architects, specifiers, consultants and heating engineers come together to discuss ways of improving our housing stock in the UK.

These have proved very popular and I believe are part of a growing trend in finding more sustainable ways of delivering the quality homes that people need.

Our first, held in December, saw a forthright presentation from our Ecodan ambassador, TV presenter and architect, George Clarke, who called for the industry to “stop building crap homes”, which seemed to resonate with the audience and which he’s written about here.

A major focus was the need for more modular homes, so that quality can be in-built at the factory level, rather than being reliant on the weather on a building site.

Factory versus field

Whilst a growth in prefabrication is to be encouraged and applauded as a way of changing the way we do things, the reality, at least for the next few years, is that housebuilders will continue to follow the existing model and build new homes ‘out in the field’.

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