The Future Homes Project (FHP) is an industry-academic partnership for the delivery of new and existing net zero homes - a significant challenge for the UK and globally. Regulatory change is driving developers and asset owners to seek new solutions to ensure homes meet the needs of net zero performance, as well as future climate and occupant satisfaction. Using the unique facilities at the University of Salford (Energy House 2.0 and Salford Energy House), the partnership will develop net zero solutions for the housing sector, conducting research under controlled conditions using demonstrator homes built within the facilities. This allows net zero solutions to be explored under controlled repeatable conditions, an approach not possible anywhere else globally. Previous work in these facilities has shown that this provides innovators with robust useable data about their innovation far quicker, allowing innovations to reach market more quickly than using conventional approaches, including field trials. The FHP brings together housing developers, asset owners, and their supply chains, with the research team, to gain an understanding of energy efficiency that products and systems will bring for operational performance. This can be explored at the individual product level and generates an understanding of how they work at the whole-house level, considering issues such as overheating, noise and indoor air quality, factors that can significantly impact occupants. This work is extended by developing digital tools and process improvements that allow these solutions to be scaled up, meaning they can be more rapidly deployed, with more confidence of their actual performance in use and ensuring technical barriers to adoption are removed. The research team will support this deployment by bringing independence and technical knowledge to support demonstration projects and field trials during the life of the project. By bringing together leading industry partners, the FHP will have a far-reaching impact on the delivery of new and retrofit homes, as well as supporting the wide range of companies (heating, cooling, ventilation, controls, digital, materials, delivery) within the complex housing supply chain, bringing together innovations in net zero solutions for housing. This will not only deliver net zero homes but create the opportunities for Clean Growth that will come from the innovative work, creating policy, economic and social benefits for Greater Manchester and the UK.

"**AIMCH seeks to industrialise the housing sector**, applying design for manufacture and assembly solutions to become a global housing leader. Digital working and offsite construction have not broken through as viable mainstream alternative's to paper based design and masonry methods. **AIMCH's ambition will transform how we build homes,** through industrialisation, solving these challenges for good. AIMCH will be a **sector catalyst** moving to housing delivery to become a **digitally integrated, manufacturing and assembly based sector**. The UK needs an additional **120,000 homes each year**. Housing faces many challenges reduce construction skills, aging workforce and poor intake. Productivity is poor and output is low. Housing quality, customer satisfaction and building performance must improve. Affordability is low and costs too high. Housing is fragmented, risk adverse and cyclical limiting long term investment. AIMCH goal is to deliver **offsite construction for the cost of masonry** and understand how future advanced offsite solutions can be applied. This **ambition has never been achieved**, creating business opportunity. AIMCH seeks **20% cost reduction, 30% productivity gain, 50% less defects, build 5,000 & impact 35,000 homes** across the sector. **AIMCH unique collaboration** will develop and commercialise digital design tools, develop new automated manufacturing systems, trial enhanced & advanced offsite systems, with new lean site processes. AIMCH will be the **Henry Ford of housing**, catalysing sector transformation, becoming the game-changing project, for Industry and Government to showcase. AIMCH will make people's lives easier driving uptake because people want too. AIMCH has the UK's largest private, rented and social housing providers, leading offsite manufacturers and UK researchers. **AIMCH provides scale** (35,000 homes or 16% of the market) high profile companies & innovation **capability**, with clear route to market exploitation. AIMCH will deliver **wider sector benefits** in jobs, investment, growth, younger and diverse workers, provide communities, accelerate technology adoption and become a world leading housing exemplar. This **36 month £6.2m Innovation project** will develop **concepts, prototype and trial solutions** on 10-12 live projects. New methods will be commercialised & disseminated for wide market uptake. AIMCH are confident **we can deliver** this ambition."

The AIMC4 projects seeks to deliver mainstream Level 4 Code for Sustainable Homes (Energy only) using a fabric first approach, without reliance on renewable technologies or solar orientation, for the cost of a Level 3 home .In addition the homes will be user friendly, simple to use and low maintenance. This will drive supply chain product/systems, process and material innovations, associated with the building envelope, for volume housing delivery.