2025 Future Homes Standard – How Access Coins ERP Helps UK Homebuilders Stay Compliant 

Today’s homebuilders find themselves in a regulatory environment that is broader, deeper and more complex than ever before. In just the past five years, new and updated legislation has impacted almost every area of the built environment.   

The Building Safety Act 2022 

Following the introduction of the Building Safety Act in 2022, homebuilders are now required to maintain a consistent “Golden Thread” of digital records, placing a far greater emphasis on traceability and accountability throughout the lifecycle of a building.   

Part L Building Regulations 2023 

Viewed as a stepping stone to the upcoming Future Homes Standard, the introduction of Part L Building Regulations in 2023 now enforces builders to document their construction processes in granular detail, capturing photographic evidence at key stages, and providing proof that their supply chains meet increasingly rigorous compliance thresholds.  

The Future Homes Standard 2025 

The Future Homes Standard, set to come fully into force in Autumn 2025, will require new homes to produce 75–80% fewer carbon emissions, an ambitious target that will undoubtedly begin to significantly impact design and procurement decisions.  

For years, many homebuilders have relied on a familiar mix of spreadsheets, emails, and standalone software to help manage their projects.   

While these tools may have once been the standard, they are now struggling to keep pace alongside the rapidly changing regulatory landscape of construction in 2025. 

With a demand for better quality data that is structured, timestamped, traceable and accessible to the right people at the right time, critical information spread across different systems no longer meets the industry’s expectations.  

Using Part L as an example, builders must now provide photographic evidence at every stage of construction. The traditional reliance on mobile phone photos, offline folders, and manual uploads not only leaves room for error, but can result in heavy fines due to non-compliance.  

The reality is siloed systems make it harder to get a complete picture of what’s happening on a homebuilding project. With procurement data in one platform, build schedules in another, and quality checks managed elsewhere, it becomes almost impossible to track compliance holistically — let alone respond quickly if something goes wrong.  

So, what’s the solution?  

Construction ERP platforms bring people, processes and data into one connected system. By unifying every part of a business under one platform, ERP helps homebuilders manage their business holistically, becoming an effective method of managing compliance.  

Instead of juggling separate tools and platforms for scheduling, procurement, site records, and reporting, ERP centralises information in real-time.   

This means compliance data is consistently captured as part of your everyday workflow, not as an afterthought.   

Whether you are documenting approvals, reviewing product specifications, or logging site inspections, homebuilder teams can record what’s needed once - making it instantly accessible to those who require it in the future for reporting.  

The result is an end-to-end solution that:  

• Makes audit trails easier to maintain providing teams with a Golden Thread of information  
• Reduces the risk of lost documentation or manual errors  
• Updates itself to align with new legislation   
• Streamlines recordkeeping and automating repetitive admin  
• Provides a more structured, efficient way to meet regulatory demands without slowing down projects  

One of the biggest shifts over recent years for UK homebuilding isn’t just the demand for compliance, but for ‘proof of compliance’.  

With the arrival of the Golden Thread, construction teams are now expected to ensure that this proof is easily accessible, well-structured, and maintained over time. Without the right tools, this expectation can become a full-time role, creating unnecessary burdens on construction teams.   

By design, however, Construction ERP creates this Golden Thread for teams as they carry out their day-to-day.   

Every approval, inspection, product specified, and site update is logged, time-stamped, and linked to the relevant stage of the build within these systems. The central nature of ERP ensures that teams aren’t left scouring through old paper trails or piecing together email chains at the end of a project.  

Rather, all the information you need to provide proof of compliance is already there, embedded in the process.  

ERP helps make compliance a natural part of construction project management, rather than a separate layer of admin. For homebuilders, this means less time firefighting and reworking builds, and more time focused on delivery.  

Leading construction-specific ERP platforms are designed to adapt quickly. When regulations change, as they did with the update to Part L, builders need systems that can respond without disruption.   

Access Coins introduced new functionality to help users capture photographic evidence throughout the build. Photos taken on-site through the mobile app are now geotagged, time-stamped, and uploaded straight to the cloud, giving teams instant visibility and a reliable audit trail.  

In this fast-moving regulatory environment, that level of responsiveness is key.   

Regulations aren’t going anywhere. If recent years are proof of anything, it’s that they’re only becoming more detailed, more digital, and more demanding.   

For UK homebuilders, staying compliant while still delivering on time and within budget means having the right systems in place.  

That’s exactly what Access Coins is built to do.  

As a construction-specific ERP, Access Coins brings together everything you need to manage your business and meet regulatory requirements in one platform.  

From procurement and project control to on-site inspections and reporting, Access Coins is already helping 43 of the top 75 UK homebuilders stay compliant.  

Whether you’re preparing for future regulations or simply trying to work more efficiently, Access Coins gives you the tools to stay one step ahead.