Vertical supply chain integration to deliver high volume ultra-low energy offsite construction

Completed

Energy Efficiency(Residential and commercial)

Applied Research and Development

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Architecture and the Built Environment)

Not Cross-cutting

Project Contact
Citu Developments LLP

Feasibility Study

Innovate UK

01 October 2015

30 June 2016

9 months

£114,067

Yorkshire & Humberside

Competition Call: 1503_FS_BUIL_ECCSC - Supply Chain Integration in Construction. Activity Supply chain integration in construction

Project Contact, Citu Developments LLP

Project Contact, Leeds Beckett University

To meet the target of decreasing CO2 emissions by 80% by 2050, new house builds must improve energy performance by up to 80%, whilst the rate of construction must also double. The traditional supply chain structure between end user and product suppliers means that the potential to capture innovation from product suppliers and exploit this in a cohesive ultra-low energy (ULE, e.g. Passivhaus) end product is often lost due to the inherent segregation of client, contractor and product suppliers. Citu developments LLP will collaborate with Leeds Beckett University to develop the first industrial scale ULE offsite construction system, based on Passivhaus type concepts, but designed for UK brownfield applications where build form and orientation cannot always be optimised for energy efficiency. This project will investigate the feasibility of vertically integrating suppliers and an industrial manufacturing process with unprecedented quality/control into a viable business model for commercial exploitation, to optimise the energy efficiency of a particular site at a fraction of the cost of existing energy-efficient technologies.To meet the target of decreasing CO2 emissions by 80% by 2050, new house builds must improve energy performance by up to 80%, whilst the rate of construction must also double. The traditional supply chain structure between end user and product suppliers means that the potential to capture innovation from product suppliers and exploit this in a cohesive ultra-low energy (ULE, e.g. Passivhaus) end product is often lost due to the inherent segregation of client, contractor and product suppliers. Citu developments LLP will collaborate with Leeds Beckett University to develop the first industrial scale ULE offsite construction system, based on Passivhaus type concepts, but designed for UK brownfield applications where build form and orientation cannot always be optimised for energy efficiency. This project will investigate the feasibility of vertically integrating suppliers and an industrial manufacturing process with unprecedented quality/control into a viable business model for commercial exploitation, to optimise the energy efficiency of a particular site at a fraction of the cost of existing energy-efficient technologies.

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