The UK government has published details of the Future Homes Standard, marking a major shift in how new homes in England will be designed, specified and delivered.

The UK government has launched its Warm Homes Plan as part of a £15bn investment to upgrade the nation’s homes and cut energy bills.

Heat networks currently provide only a small proportion of the UK’s current heating needs but have huge potential to deliver much more, says Jonathan Monkcom.

Housebuilders Bellway and Barratt Redrow have worked with the University of Salford on the largest research project ever carried out on electrical heating systems under controlled conditions.

Few solutions are true silver bullets when it comes to decarbonisation but for commercial buildings, heat pumps could hit the bullseye by halving energy consumption. Mott MacDonald’s Chris Vallis explains.

The British Geological Survey has begun construction of a geothermal heat pump project at its headquarters in Keyworth, Nottinghamshire.

An archaeological site in Glasgow has received a £150,000 grant to install a river source heat pump to heat a historic church.

The construction industry needs to accelerate training of heat pump installers if it is to keep carbon reduction on schedule for hitting the net zero target by 2050.

Construction needs a holistic approach to net zero if it wants to meet its targets, writes Pablo Cristi Worm.

A village in Cornwall has started getting its energy from a shared network of ground-source heat pumps, in what is thought to be the first project of its kind.

A heating and air conditioning trader has pleaded guilty to fraudulent trading after being prosecuted for mis-selling heat pumps and taking payment for work he didn’t carry out.

Barratt Developments and Saint-Gobain are building a futuristic house to test its performance against extreme temperatures and climatic conditions.

Luke Osborne’s article on heat pumps generated some animated responses from CM readers, including the question of where heat pumps should be positioned

The UK government sees heat pumps as a key low-carbon energy technology, but they have come in for plenty of criticism. Luke Osborne explains how they work.

The competition watchdog, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is to examine whether it needs to protect consumers from poor practices in the green heating and retrofit sectors.

A new type of air source heat pump developed by researchers at the University of Glasgow could perform more efficiently in cold conditions.

Existing government policy measures are “not sufficient” to drive the uptake of heat pumps and hydrogen boilers in either the short or medium term.

The report, commissioned by Baxi, cited the cost of training, a lack of customer demand, and excess paperwork as the main barriers to change.