Until now, many of us have not paid a lot of attention to overheating when designing and building our homes — we’ve tended to focus more on keeping houses warm in the cooler months. But this is changing with the publication of Building Regulations Part O: Overheating.
The updated Building Regulations took effect from June 2022 and while the measures in Part O are not designed to guarantee comfort, they are there to protect the occupants’ health and welfare.
O IS FOR OVERHEATING
The main intention behind Part O: Overheating (fairly easy to remember) is to limit excess solar gain in the room, and to provide means by which measures can be introduced to quickly
