Building Better: the next frontier for sustainable, high quality, net zero homes

由全国住房联合会支持的Building Better是一个由31个住房协会和地方当局组成的联盟，致力于在社会住房领域增加现代建筑方法（MMC）的使用。Building Better成立于2018年，是全国住房联合会温室创新计划的一部分，它汇集了其成员的需求，以便他们能够采购高质量，运营净零，他们相信这些房屋将满足客户的需求。Building Better还与场外制造商合作，听取他们的反馈，共同学习和创新。这是唯一由社会住房提供商建造并为社会住房提供商建造的解决方案，具有全国范围，并在危机时期通过成员合作提供明确的证据。我们的愿景是让社会住房部门成为最可持续住房的主要建筑商，为他们的居民，地球和他们的企业提供最可持续的住房。 这个具体项目的主要目标是：1）制定我们需要的指标，以证明净零住房的性能及其对居住在其中的人的影响，以及2）确保住房随着时间的推移不断改善的机制。这包括测量供暖和制冷技术在能源性能、通风和保暖方面的工作方式，以及客户的易用性和可负担性，开发可在整个行业复制的最佳实践入住后评估流程，并建立实验，以测试我们如何支持客户以最简单的方式使用他们的供暖和制冷技术以及传感器技术。

Building Better, backed by the National Housing Federation, is an alliance of 31 housing associations and local authorities working together to increase the use of modern methods of construction (MMC) in the social housing sector.Set up in 2018 as part of the National Housing Federation's Greenhouse innovation programme, Building Better aggregates demand from its members so they can procure high quality, operationally net zero, offsite homes, confident in the fact that these homes will meet their customers' needs. Building Better also collaborates with offsite manufacturers, listening to their feedback, learning and innovating together.It is the only solution that is built by and for social housing providers, has national reach, and shows clear evidence of delivery through member collaboration during a time of crisis. Our vision is for the social housing sector to be the lead house builders of the most sustainable homes for their residents, the planet, and their businesses. The key objectives of this specific project are to 1) develop the metrics we need to evidence the performance of net zero homes and their impact on the people living in them, and 2) the mechanism to ensure homes keep getting better over time. This includes measuring how heating and cooling technologies are working in terms of energy performance, ventilation and warmth, as well as customer ease of use and affordability, developing a best practice post occupancy evaluation process that is replicable across the sector, and building the experiments that will test how we can support customers use their heating and cooling technologies in the easiest way possible alongside sensor technologies.