HAPI is an innovative online housing performance feedback management system, which seeks to provide a step-change in improving the flow of information throughout the construction supply chain of new social housing projects, by better use of housing performance feedback through hindsight from past projects, insight from ongoing projects and foresight to influence future projects. HAPI will have the capability to capture, collate, curate and link feedback on housing performance right from briefing stage through to design, construction, commissioning, handover and occupation, and provide best (and common) practice and bespoke advice in one place, in an easy-to-understand and accessible manner. Currently there is no such information/knowledge management system which makes actual performance data available, accessible and searchable at any time for use by housing providers, designers, constructors and suppliers. HAPI will enable integration across the housing construction supply chain to deliver better performing homes. This will inturn streamline the supply chain processes and reduce the performance gap.

The Cobweb project tackles CHALLENGE 1 of the competition which is about developing a data platform for (real time) power and heat usage with sufficient granularity to identify community trends and individual usage patterns in both domestic and commercial buildings.

Building on Delta’s TSB-supported feasibility study, the aim of this project is to design and build a small, light weight and most importantly low cost microturbine-based generator for use as a range extender for electric vehicles. The holistic approach taken by Delta to understanding the challenges posed by vehicle electrification has highlighted that a low cost, compact range extender is a very important enabling technology – its addition to an electric vehicle will reduce the vehicle’s cost (by displacing some of the batteries) while also offering its owner greater availability and range. Delta is starting afresh with the microturbine, optimising it for the automotive range extender application. The chosen size of 15kW will allow the device to be extremely compact whilst still delivering sufficient power to cover the vast majority of usage scenarios.

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.