Keepmoat and Birmingham City University explore energy use

Last year, Keepmoat became the first housebuilder to deliver the first, large-scale development of new homes, built to the anticipated Future Homes Standard (FHS) for open market sale at Gedling Green.

Now, Keepmoat and researchers from Birmingham City University are joining forces to analyse what the impact of these technologies are and how they’ll influence how people will live in their homes in the future.

Gedling Green is a housing development boasting zero carbon ready two, three and four-bedroom homes and offers the first new homes in the UK built to the anticipated Future Homes Standard (FHS), which were launched for open market sale last year. All the new homes at the development feature air source heat pumps, solar PV panels, increased levels of insulation, EV charging points and smart hot water cylinders, which use AI technology to understand how much hot water people living in the home use on average, to reduce waste…