BREEAM UK New Construction: Residential | What’s Beyond the Future Homes Standard?
When: Tuesday 18 November, 2025 10:00am GMT
The Future Homes Standard (FHS) is set to arrive this year, establishing a new baseline for carbon performance in new residential developments. As the industry prepares for implementation, questions emerge about what this means for long-term performance, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) commitments, and portfolio risk. Investors and lenders financing these schemes want to go beyond compliance and understand how to evaluate sustainability outcomes that exceed regulatory minimums.
This webinar examines how finance and policy are responding to the government’s proposed Future Homes Standard. While the FHS focuses on energy and carbon performance, we’ll explore how broader sustainability considerations – and the gap between as-designed and in-use performance – shape investment decisions and regulatory thinking around whole life carbon.
What will attendees gain?
- Explore the relationship between FHS requirements (energy and carbon) and broader sustainability outcomes measured through BREEAM UK New Construction: Residential
- Discover how lenders and investors are evaluating sustainability performance beyond FHS compliance in residential developments
- Understand the role of BREEAM UK New Construction: Residential in demonstrating measurable sustainability outcomes across the development pipeline
- Explore practical approaches to balancing ESG ambitions with delivery and viability in funded schemes
Agenda
- Welcome and overview
- Policy context: the FHS and future regulatory direction
- The investment perspective: how finance views FHS and sustainability performance
- Beyond compliance: structuring finance around measurable sustainability outcomes
- BREEAM UK New Construction: Residential as a framework for credible ESG reporting
- Opportunities to ask questions of our expert speakers
Who should attend this webinar?
This event is for developers seeking finance for residential schemes, sustainability leads working with investment partners, local authority housing and planning teams, design consultants advising on funding applications, and fund managers with residential portfolios.
Speakers
Moderator: James Fisher, Head of Strategic Partnerships, BRE
Panellists:
Emma Milburn, Deputy Head of Housing UK, HSBC
Sam Wisker, Senior Investment Manager, Octopus Capital
David Weatherall, Head of Policy, BRE
Notes:
- Please note that some details in this agenda may be subject to change.
- A recording of the session will be shared with all registrants after the event
- Registration is free but required to secure your place
Speakers
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James FisherHead of Strategic Partnerships, BRE -
Sam WiskerSenior Investment Manager, Octopus Capital -
Emma MilburnDeputy Head of Housing UK, HSBC UK BANK PLC -
David WeatherallHead of Policy, BRE
