how high quality sustainable homes and communities can unlock supply

Part of the BRE Trust

How high quality, sustainable homes and communities can help unlock supply.Gwyn RobertsHomes and Communities Lead BRE Global

How high quality, sustainable homes and communities can help unlock supply.

– Health and wellbeing – Reducing the environmental impact– Holistic costs and value – Ensuring delivery to unlock supply

– UK’s leading building science centre.

– 90 years of testing, research, education and innovation of buildings.

– Works across the globe.

Who is BRE?

Our Health and Wellbeing

Creating Healthy Homes

Infographic developed for UK-GBC by PRP

Cost of poor housing to the NHS

– Cost to the NHS cost of poor housing is at least £1.4bn.

– BRE Housing Health Cost Calculator Resultant savings to society £12,182,466– Estimate of winding down the Code for

Sustainable Homes is likely to add £1m a year to NHS costs.

Reducing Environmental Footprint

Still work to do on Carbon Emissions

EPC's New Homes Q3

Series1

23%– 23% of New Homes had EPCs of C or D– 1% E, F or G rated. – Overall 13% of EPCs lodged in Q3 2016

were A or B.– Some way off “Zero Carbon”.

Environmental footprint

– Embodied Impact– Ecology– Air Quality– Transport– Amenity

Overall running costs

Cost savings for all

– 500 000 Homes in study.– EPC band B had 31% shorter voids

than those in E / F. – Rent arrears are on average half a

month higher in band F properties than in other bands.

More than just energy efficiency….

– Performance Gap– Maintenance of Systems– Durability of materials– Resilience to Climate Change – Transport– Amenity– To influence the financiers?

UK: Change in residential properties at risk of flooding (more frequent than 1:75 years) assuming the CLA Adaptation Scenario (no population growth)

UK Climate Change Risk Assessment 2017: Projections of future flood risk (Main Report) October 2015: Sayers and Partners LLP

Who is BRE working with?

Mortgages InsurersInvestors

and many more.

Ensuring Delivery to Unlock SupplyAcceptance, Planning and Financing

Is there a trust and a perception issue?

2016 HBF

Buy a new home

Series1

46%

46% said they were unlikely to buy a new home

10%

High level of trust

Series12016 BRE / Grand Designs

10% put a high level of trust in housebuilders

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Home Quality Mark (HQM)

1) Differentiate 2) Information

Running Costs

Health and Wellbeing

Environmental Impact

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― 80% of respondents said they people partly or highly trust independent certification.

― Over 90% people would prefer a home with independent mark.

― 75% would pay £750 or more per home for certification. Of this 13% would pay £3000.

Building Trust

Series1

80%

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It can go wrong with Green Wash

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Who? 11,000 Homes Registered so far

Derwent, Egg Homes, Muse Developments, Jones Building Group, LendLease, BlueprintRocco Homes, Lumiere, Volkerfitzpatrick, Crest Nicholson, Evoora Construction, Peel,Places for People, Higgins Homes, Broadland Housing Group, Network Housing Group,Seddon, Canary Wharf Contractors, Cala Homes, Kier, Linden Homes, Gentoo, Zed Factory, Wienerberger

and many more.

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Egg Homes – Viver Green

– Lake District– ICF Construction – resilience– HQM being used to lever funding and as

Marketing tool.– Tesla business model;

1) High End 2) Family 3) Affordable

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Lumiere

– Hemel Hempstead– Integration of Ecology and PV– Aiming to be the most

sustainable high rise.

Part of Lloyds £1billion low interest loans for green buildings

Images: FarrellsStep 1The Principle

Step 2The Layout

Step 3The Details

“..BREEAM halves the time that is spent..” Louise Cutts, Development Management Officer, Eastleigh Borough Council 

“Overall BREEAM helped us secure planning approval and..secure the project.” Dave Bullock, Managing Director, Compendium Living  

“BREEAM is a planning vehicle but it’s actually so much more - 20% of the value is in the planning and 80% is in the conversation you have about your development..”

Iain Taylor, Partnerships Director, Peel Group  

BREEAM Communities scheme; master planning stage

Better with

Communities– Al Zahia, UAE

– Learn from global experiences.– Former military base with contamination.– Greater consultation with community.– New Infrastructure (shaded cycle ways

etc.).– Capitalising on improving Ecology.

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How HQM and BREEAM can be used

– Landowners can specify to ensure long term value.

– Clients can specify to ensure outcomes.– Developers can use to lever funding.– Can be used to help in planning process.

Thank you

@homeqm @bre_group

Visit www.homequalitymark.com

Gwyn.Roberts@bre.co.uk