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) and address for the property. 

   

 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. 

 Using one of your own custom palettes or a team-managed palette. 

 Starting 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 and  managing custom materials palettes.  

 

 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. 

 

 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 . 

 

 ​ Still Need Help? / Want to know more? 

 

 

 Related FAQs:  Check out our Heatpunk FAQs  for answers to common questions 

 Further guides : Take a look at our Getting started guides 

 Live training: Book onto a free, online, live demo session to see the software in action 

 

 Contact Support:  If you've got further questions, get in touch with our support team at  help@heatpunk.co.uk  (UK) or  help@heatpunk.ie  (IE).  If you are experiencing a bug, to help us look into your issue faster, please include the email address of your account, the name of the project and screenshots of any unexpected behaviour.