ROADMAP

We are redesigning how heat moves through estates, towns and time.

If you are here, you are probably carrying big responsibilities. Keeping buildings warm without wasting money. Hitting decarbonisation targets without breaking services. Making decisions that still feel sound in twenty years, not just year one.

Generation 7 exists for that space. We are an energy systems studio that helps public bodies and estate teams turn heating and cooling from a background problem into a backbone for how places work.

HOW THE ROADMAP WORKS

Heat sits at the junction of many pressures: carbon, comfort, cost, continuity of service. Our roadmap is simple. Start by making today’s systems behave better. Use that to fund and shape new networks that work first time. Use those projects to change how decisions are made across whole estates and places.

Today
Stabilise what you already have. Understand how heat is really moving. Fix the worst leaks in comfort, money and emissions. Give operators clearer levers and better data.
Next
Design new plant, heat pumps and networks that fit the fabric of the estate and the lives of the people using it. Align briefs, funding cases and phasing with how work actually happens on the ground.
Beyond
Turn individual projects into a joined-up heat story for your estate or town. Use each win to change how you plan, procure and manage energy so the system behaves more like a civic asset than a cost line.
WHY IT MATTERS NOW
In most estates, heat is quietly doing three things at once. It keeps people comfortable. It shapes a large part of operating cost. It drives a significant share of carbon emissions.

Yet the way decisions are made about heat is often fragmented. Capital and revenue budgets pull in different directions. Procurement races the clock. Operators inherit systems that are clever on paper and confusing in reality.

The opportunity is not only new technology, it is new coherence. When estates, funding and engineering are looked at together, you can unlock projects that are technically sound, financially sane and socially grounded.
Comfort
Spaces that feel right
Fewer hot-and-cold complaints. More wards, homes and classrooms that simply feel stable and calm, season after season.
Cost
Money staying on the estate
Less spend disappearing into inefficient plant and losses. More of your budget freed for care, housing, learning and local priorities.
Carbon
Real decarbonisation, not just new kit
Heat pump and network projects that are sized, phased and operated so they deliver the reductions your plans promise.
Continuity
Services that keep running
Schemes that respect critical operations, maintenance windows and human limits, so the transition feels manageable, not disruptive.
THE ROADMAP LANES

We work across three connected lanes. You can enter anywhere. Many clients move through all three over time, turning one project into a pattern for how heat works across their whole estate.

Lane one
Estates in transition

Stabilise today’s heat. Understand how your current systems really behave and where they are silently draining money, carbon and time.

  • Estate-wide heat mapping and simple visuals people can actually read.
  • Plant room and network diagnostics that reveal quick wins and deep issues.
  • Prioritised actions that improve comfort and performance within existing constraints.
Lane two
Networks that work

Use what you have learned to design new heat networks and low-carbon plant that work from first commissioning, not after three winters of frustration.

  • Heat network and heat pump strategies shaped around real loads and phasing.
  • Better briefs and funding cases that point the team at the same picture of success.
  • Design assurance so drawings, controls and hydraulics line up with how sites are run.
Lane three
Places that thrive

Treat heat as part of a wider civic story. Use networks, waste heat and shared infrastructure to support healthier streets, homes and public buildings.

  • Town and campus-scale concepts that link hospitals, housing and civic buildings.
  • Options that reuse waste heat and align with regeneration plans and local economies.
  • Longer-term roadmaps that show how today’s projects open doors for tomorrow’s.
OUR TRACK RECORD

We already sit quietly in the middle of some of the UK’s most significant decarbonisation and heat network work. A few examples:

Kingston University Hospital
Low-temperature heat pump and de-steaming design cutting emissions by around a quarter while keeping a complex clinical estate running.
UK Parliament
Energy and resilience strategy shaping a long term heat and utilities story for one of the most sensitive estates in the country.
Defence Infrastructure Organisation
Decarbonisation pathway for a government estate with a very large annual energy footprint, balancing security, resilience and carbon.
Public sector decarbonisation programmes
Engineering design that unlocked significant funded heat pump upgrades across hospitals, leisure centres and civic buildings.
Local-authority heat networks
Design assurance for multi-year network build-outs serving homes and community assets, focused on performance, reliability and finance.
Fifth-generation demonstrators
District energy concepts using waste heat from transport and data centres to support mixed-tenure housing.
Housing providers
Heat pump retrofit strategies, network optimisation and investment-ready plans across communal heating schemes and estates.
Twenty five years of work. Hundreds of buildings. Multiple high-stakes estates. A clear bias for what works.
WHERE THIS IS HEADING
The future we are working toward is simple to describe and demanding to deliver. Heat that feels almost invisible because it just works. Estates that use far less energy without people feeling colder. Networks that turn waste heat into shared value.

For us, the roadmap is not a set of slogans, it is a sequence of very practical moves. Projects that make today better and quietly set up what can happen next on your estate, in your town and for the people who will live and work there long after this funding cycle has passed.