What is Good?
What is Sustainable?
What is Quality?
Gwyn Roberts
New Homes and Communities Lead, BRE
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What is good?
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Lifetime Household spending 0
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Alcohol
Housing
Clothes
Recreation
Transport
Food
Hotels
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Only so much information;
• EPCs
• Rightmove + Zoopla etc.
• Withdrawal of Code for Sustainable Homes
Information gap on homes
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What makes a good quality, sustainable home?
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PollutionAir
Quality
Sound
Security
Energy Cost
Access & Connectivity for AllGrowing space
Water
Ecology
Flood Resilience Local Amenities
Space
Materials
Aftercare
DigitalIntuitive
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Evaluation
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Who is BRE?
Building Research Establishment
UK’s leading building Science centre
90 years of testing, researching and innovation of buildings.
Defining Quality
&
Sustainability
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Home - A home is more than 4 walls and a roof, it is
about hearts and minds.
Quality - Everybody wants quality, but
doesn’t always know what it is.
Mark - Provides reassurance, independence,
backed by science.
“Independent benchmarking of new homes is hugely important”.
Cala Homes Chief Executive Alan Brown
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