47 ENERGY HOUSE 2.0 SPOTLIGHT Putting future affordability to the test


One of the key challenges for the housebuilding industry is making green technologies affordable for the average homebuyer, and high- tech solutions will only work if they can be applied easily, at scale. Jamie Bursnell of Bellway explains how the firm’s Future Home test project is looking to find ‘the Goldilocks zone’ – the ‘just right’ balance between energy and cost efficiency in order to make the path to net zero one which everyone can follow.


With this in mind, we are committed to successfully reducing our carbon emissions through our ‘Better with Bellway’ strategy. As part of this commitment to sustainable practices, we have created an experimental eco house, The Future Home, within the unique Energy House 2.0 research project at the University of Salford.


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The pioneering £16m project, which is part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund, is researching and testing, in tightly controlled conditions, new ways of powering, heating and insulating homes, making them more energy efficient and helping to meet new standards which require a significant reduction in carbon emissions for new- build homes from 2025. For Bellway, affordability and user-


t Bellway, we recognise that climate change is one of the defining challenges in the modern world.


THE SPECIALLY BUILT CHAMBER AT ENERGY HOUSE 2.0 WILL ENABLE THE TEAM TO CARRY OUT TESTING ON DIFFERENT COMPONENTS IN VARYING WEATHER CONDITIONS


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