As part of our roadmap to zero carbon, we need to ensure our homes are affordable and contribute to our long-term obligation to be a zero-carbon business, considering both operational and embodied carbon impacts.
The Government’s ‘Future Homes Standard’ will ensure that new homes are zero carbon ready, we are committed to adopting this standard at the earliest opportunity, ahead of the standard coming into force in 2025.
Building new, high quality and sustainable homes has never been more important. Through our corporate and development strategies launched in 2020, the Board set a target of delivering 25 per cent of our homes via Modern Methods of Construction (MMC). This will equate to approximately 250-300 homes per year.
We are part of the Building Better national consortium, a strategic alliance of housing associations and the National Housing Federation working together to realise the benefits of MMC within the social housing sector, through aggregating demand, utilising technology to gather data and influencing design through iterative improvements. The consortium aims to collectively build up to 12,500 homes a year.
Abri has entered a strategic partnership with Swedish modular house builder BoKlok to deliver 750 homes over the next five years. It is anticipated that BoKlok, which is jointly owned by Skanska and Ikea, will be a key contributor to Abri’s programme to build more than 12,500 new homes over the next 10 years to provide homes across the South of England including Bristol, Bath, Somerset, Portsmouth, and Southampton
