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The future of sustainable housing: creating a new standardPutting the consumer at the heart of new housing
BRE is developing a voluntary sustainability standard for new homes that will allow developers to differentiate their product in the marketplace by recognising performance beyond minimum regulation and provide increased quality and choice for the consumer.www.bre.co.uk/fsh
Our vision of homes for the future
The new standard will be developed for the UK market and can be adapted for specific local circumstances. It will use an easy to understand, consumer focused rating system. It aims to tackle the performance gap issue, ensuring that the home is performing as designed and if not to recommend a course of action the home owner can take. Image source: Flickr, copyright lydia_shiningbrightly
The past
The Code for Sustainable Homes has a top down approach, with limited influence by the end user.
Most members of the public have not heard of the Code for Sustainable Homes.
DCLG
HCA
LocalAuthorities
HouseBuilders
Regulations are minimum standards
What do many developers already do that are above regulations?
Materials &Lifecycle
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Ecology
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WaterEfficiency
EnergyEfficiency
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SiteImpacts
UserGuide
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Composting
Accessand LTH
Identifying critical issues
– Resilience to adverse and extreme weather (heat, cold, snow and rain).
– Mental and physical health & wellbeing of occupants.
– Resource efficiency.
– Increased biodiversity.
– Low energy, water and maintenance costs.
– Improved connectivity.
Putting the occupier at the centre
The new standard will give householders a robust stamp of approval to allow them to make informed choices over their financial outgoings, health and wellbeing and their impact on the environment.
The new standard willput the occupier at the center
Landlords
Products and Skills
FinancialInstitutions
HouseBuilders
Assessors
Government
What our new standard will provide:
Developers
– Differentiate product to consumers, with third party verification.
– Increase certainty [reduce costs] over design and build process
– De-politicise future
– Help lever funding from RSLs
– Reduce risk for financing
– A tool for reducing planning bureaucracy
What our new standard will provide:
Rental Sector
– Ensure high standards for residents
– Provide third party verification and expertise on developments
– Reduce running, maintenance and insurance costs of stock
– Continue to reduce fuel poverty
– Increase certainty over rental incomes, levering preferential finance for future developments
– A tool to understand differences between developers at bidding stage
What our new standard will provide:
Policy Makers
– Enable benchmarking of policies
– A national framework to progress with current challenges within the construction industry
– Reduce costs of future legislation
– Drive innovation, products, services and employment for UK plc.
– A tool to understand differences between developers at planning stage
What our new standard will provide:
Financial Services
– A tool to differentiate developments for insurance, legal assurance, mortgages and financing. Provide increased understanding on both financial and climatic risks.
Product/Skill providers
– A multi-issue framework to promote products and skills that is understood both nationally and globally.
Launch Timeline
Quarter 42014
Quarter 12015
Quarter 2 and 32015
– Feedback from consultation workshops
– New standard brochure published with technical aims and policy justification
– Desk based re-assessment of current sites
– Draft produced of full technical criteria and evidence
– Detailed consultation on technical criteria
– Pilot sites to start building to new standard
– Official launch including name (Ecobuild - March 2015)
– Final 2015 technical guidance
– Fully operational with online tools www.breeam.com/projects
– Scheme open for registrations
