Lunch & Learn: Getting heating right - part 2
Part of the Future Homes Standard Essentials Series
Date / Time:
Friday 3 July 2026, 1-2pm
What is the webinar about?
Air source, ground source and air-to-air heat pumps
Heat pumps are playing an essential role in the transition to low carbon, future-ready homes. As the sector moves away from gas heating, heat pump systems need to be understood not simply as a replacement heat source, but as part of a coordinated approach to building fabric, heating design, installation, commissioning and customer handover.
Success at scale is dependent on a change in approach right across the delivery journey, impacting key roles including sales teams, architects and designers, through to procurement teams, site managers, installers and commissioning engineers. It is essential each of these roles understand the success factors, avoid the known pitfalls and embed the right processes.
Join a panel of industry experts as they explore the key considerations for delivering homes with air source heat pumps, ground source heat pumps and air-to-air heat pumps. Plus learn how these insights have been brought together in our heat pump guidance to help the sector reduce delivery risk, avoid rework and deliver comfortable, efficient homes for customers.
Meet the Speakers
Jamie Bursnell - Head of Technical and Innovations, Bellway
With 20 years working in the energy sector, Jamie Bursnell has expertise in leading teams and businesses towards better energy management. Over the past four years, he has worked at national housebuilder Bellway.
After joining as as Group Technical and Innovation Manager, Jamie was recently appointed Head of Technical and Innovation. In this position, he looks after building regulation compliance and oversees the practical implications of the company’s sustainability strategy, Better with Bellway.
He is at the forefront of Bellway’s Future Homes programme, which includes industry-leading research with The University of Salford and other partners at Energy House 2.0 labs.
Neil Stone - Managing Director, REDD Design
Neil Stone is Managing Director of Renewable Energy Domestic Design Limited (REDD), the UK’s largest independent provider of heating and plumbing designs to the domestic new-build housing sector by volume.
With nearly 30 years of industry experience and an honours degree in Environmental Engineering, Neil has built a reputation for delivering practical, forward-thinking design solutions that support the transition to low-carbon housing.
Neil specialises in renewable energy system design, particularly air source heat pump integration, and works with a wide range of manufacturers and housebuilders — from major national developers such as Barratt Redrow, Persimmons, Taylor Wimpey and Gleeson down to bespoke self-build projects. He is passionate about helping the housing sector adopt efficient, compliant and commercially viable renewable technologies at scale.
Nick Hougton-Best – National Head of New Build, Daikin
Nick has been working in the HVAC industry for over 30 years specialising in new build and is a fully qualified OCDEA energy assessor supporting the designing and evolution of efficient heating systems.
He works closely with industry groups leading and consulting on technologies and their real-life implementation at scale.