# Starting Your First Project

## Create a new project

From the Heatpunk homepage, click **New Project** to create a new project. Set the customer details, build date (affects ventilation rates used) address for the property.

 [![image.png](https://help.heatpunk.co.uk/uploads/images/gallery/2024-11/scaled-1680-/cjlRiObTVo7WrFZ1-image.png)](https://help.heatpunk.co.uk/uploads/images/gallery/2024-11/cjlRiObTVo7WrFZ1-image.png)

### Choose your material palette

A material palette is a pre-defined set of material choices that can be used for accurate room-by-room heat loss calculations. You can choose from Heatpunk's default materials palette based on 2022 Building Regs, use one of your own custom palettes or a team-managed palette, or start from fresh with the blank project palette to set the construction type (u-values) for all the building elements. More about [choosing a materials palette](https://help.heatpunk.co.uk/books/plans-task/page/choosing-a-material-palette) and [managing custom materials palettes. ](https://help.heatpunk.co.uk/books/plans-task/page/managing-your-material-palettes-and-library)

[![image.png](https://help.heatpunk.co.uk/uploads/images/gallery/2024-11/scaled-1680-/rUaAeLTb0dNwPAVx-image.png)](https://help.heatpunk.co.uk/uploads/images/gallery/2024-11/rUaAeLTb0dNwPAVx-image.png)

### Create the first level of your floor plan  


Input the name and default ceiling height for the rooms on this level of your floor plan.

[![image.png](https://help.heatpunk.co.uk/uploads/images/gallery/2024-11/scaled-1680-/mHAivcgsJ285YFQj-image.png)](https://help.heatpunk.co.uk/uploads/images/gallery/2024-11/mHAivcgsJ285YFQj-image.png)

Click **confirm** to load the floor plan task. You're ready to start building your floorplan and generating a full room-by-room heat loss calculation. [Next read our detailed user guides for the Floor Plan Task](https://help.heatpunk.co.uk/books/plans-task).