ABOUT GENERATION 7
We are energy systems engineers who design heat so people, places and budgets all breathe easier.
We work with hospitals, housing providers and public estates to decarbonise heat without breaking what already works. Less waste, less risk, more coherence between buildings, budgets and the people who live with the outcome every day.
Chapter 01
Our founder went to the Philippines to design a hydro system and came back with a different idea of progress.
Twenty years ago, a young engineer flew to a remote highland community in the Philippines to help with a small hydropower scheme. The task sounded simple. Work out how to move water down the hill so the village could mill rice.
What he found was a community that wasted almost nothing. People who knew their land, shared resources, and looked after one another as a matter of habit. Tough and resilient, yet generous and sensitive to the place they called home.
The insight that lodged itself was not about turbines. It was about relationship. Systems that worked because people belonged to them. Energy that supported a way of life instead of eroding it.
Chapter 02
Back in the UK, the projects grew bigger. The feeling that something was missing did too.
Over the next two decades our founder led major decarbonisation and heat network projects across hospitals, social housing, government estates and new mixed use developments.
The numbers were large. Hundreds of buildings. Hundreds of millions of pounds. Net zero plans, heat networks, public sector decarbonisation schemes. Yet the same patterns kept showing up.
Briefs that treated buildings as isolated units, not part of a living estate. Schemes optimised for funding windows rather than long term use. Designs that looked fine on paper but felt wrong when you pictured real people living with them.
It was not a shortage of intelligence. It was a shortage of coherence. The system itself was out of alignment.
Chapter 03
Generation 7 is our answer to a simple question. What if heat networks were designed as if everything was connected.
Generation 7 is an energy systems studio founded by engineers who care as much about belonging and behaviour as they do about pipework and plant rooms.
We work from the belief that heat is not just a technical problem. It is a social, financial and ecological one. You cannot design any part of it well without seeing the whole.
The name comes from a simple principle. Make decisions that will still make sense seven generations from now. That means networks that can adapt, not just comply. Systems that reduce emissions and bills without creating new problems elsewhere.
To do this, we combine three roles in one place: an energy systems studio, infrastructure engineers and a quiet think tank for how heating and cooling could work much better than it does today.
Chapter 04
Today we help public teams design heat that holds up in the real world, not just in a spreadsheet.
Most of our work begins before anyone has drawn a single line. We help you get the brief, the assumptions and the system boundaries right, so money flows to the right problems and the right solutions.
We then stay with the work through design and into delivery, translating between policy, finance, engineering, operations and the people on the ground. The result is not hero projects. It is estates that work better as a whole.
If you care about decarbonisation that actually lands, heat networks that feel fair and systems that are still standing when the funding cycles have moved on, this is what we are here for.
WHAT WE ARE
One practice. Three lenses on the same problem.
Energy systems studio
We reframe how heating and cooling is seen, spoken about and funded. From policy papers to board packs, we help teams move from abstract net zero aims to specific, sensible energy systems that people can picture.
Infrastructure engineers
We design and assure real networks. Heat pumps, ambient loops, de-steaming, plant, civils and controls. The work is technical, but the aim is simple. Estates that are warmer, cleaner and less fragile.
Quiet think tank
We step back and map what is really happening across buildings, budgets and behaviours. This is where we spot the waste heat no one is using, the risks no one has named and the options that change the story.
EXPERIENCE
SELECTED WORK
Decarbonisation projects we have helped to shape.
From hospitals and social housing to government estates and mixed use schemes, our work lives in real places where failure is not an option.
Hospital decarbonisation
Kingston University Hospital
Led a £10m heat pump and de-steaming design that will cut CO₂ emissions by around a quarter and transition the estate from gas dependence to low temperature, low carbon heat.
Government estate
Defence Infrastructure Organisation
Shaped a strategic decarbonisation approach for a critical UK government estate with a £360m annual energy footprint, influencing investment decisions with multi hundred million pound consequences.
Parliamentary estate
UK Parliament
Directed an estate wide utilities appraisal that defined a resilient, lower carbon and lowest lifecycle cost energy strategy for the Houses of Parliament.
Public sector decarbonisation
Hospitals, leisure and civic buildings
Delivered engineering designs that unlocked over £150m of PSDS investment, enabling large scale heat pump deployment and deep carbon cuts across complex public estates.
Heat network design
Local authority heat network (SDEN)
Led end to end design assurance for a five year local authority heat network build out serving around 1,000 homes and community assets, with performance and financial targets that had to hold.
Community energy
GreenSCIES II district system
Engineered core components of a fifth generation district energy system using waste heat from transport and data centres to decarbonise mixed tenure housing within an Innovate UK demonstrator.
If you want heat that feels fair, works in practice and cuts carbon for real, we would like to talk.
Whether you are at the “how do we even start” stage or dealing with a live network that is not behaving, we can help you see the system clearly and design your next step with confidence.
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