Public Funding for Bouygues (U.K.) Limited

"New build mass housing developers have prevented the UK housing supply from freefall, however, the buildings created are inherently frozen in time. Although a buyer can be involved in the design process, once the house is signed-off they are on their own. As homeowners, they are suddenly expected to become building maintenance experts, responsible for mechanical and structural repairs. Updating and altering internal spaces requires sourcing quality trade skills (a significantly time-consuming process), and becoming construction experts, architects and interior designers; to understand the possibilities of how the building could be changed to meet their evolving needs. For many, at the extreme, moving can be easier than adjusting these rigid buildings. Global Home is our vision for the future of the adaptable, modular, smart home for the Mass House Building (MHB) market. We have **design engineered the world's first fully modular, re-configurable, digitally integrated home, suitable for mass production** and ready to plug-in to the smart cities and communities of the future. IUK demonstrator funding will scale up the single modular unit, GH1 proof of concept, enabling the design, development and construction of a 5 storey residential, digitally integrated, adaptable, modular lifetime residential development (GHPilot). The ground floor will be demonstration space and the remaining floors will house postgraduate/international students. **GHPilot will be a pre-production, inhabited, active building demonstrator** (TRL 9) that will become a showcase for future investors, orders and innovators, completing the product development lifecycle, establishing supply chains, production facilities. The precision engineered modular GHPilot is configurable and customisable to meet its user's needs and preferences. The home adapts to the user, rather than the user adapting to the home. GHPilot is designed to allow expansion vertically, horizontally and technologically. At the touch of a button, interior areas expand or contract through modules that move around a structural central core, from which the home's services are managed and distributed. **Novel future proof designs** will be built in to enable users to physically transform personal and social space to meet their changing needs through movable walls but also with additional plug in modules, i.e. nursery or entertainment spaces. GHPilot will **demonstrate a large-scale-viable MHB product and process** enabling homes to be built **75% faster, 33% cheaper with dramatically reduced carbon emissions and increased whole-life performance**. GHPilot will also showcase the GHConnect technology platform product, enabling integration of GH technology into third party homes at point of construction."

"GlobalHOM is a research-led proptech startup with over 10,000 hours of engineering time invested in developing a new approach to home production. We have designed a home as a user focused, high quality and sustainable product by reimagining the value-chain in mass home construction. Our first product is a 1,200 sqft 2 bed residential unit called the GlobalHOM Model TS1\. The Model TS1 is designed by award winning British product designer Lee McCormack whose portfolio includes working with McLaren of F1 developing high tech immersive environments. GlobalHOM's Lead designer is Frank Stephenson, a world renowned automotive designer responsible for the Mini Cooper, the Ferrari FXX and until 2017 was the design director at McLaren Automotive. The Model-TS1 technology was developed over a four-year period. The outcome is a new approach to home production with the potential to achieve the highest possible carbon credentials by employing best-in-class energy optimisation hardware and software The Model-TS1 is a connected home, made from an interchangeable kit of parts enabling the homedweller to adapt their own space according to their needs. No complex management of traditional trades is required. The Model TS1 can be assembled with a small team of assembly technicians 75% faster than the current construction supply chain is able to build. The homedweller will be able to easily modify, upgrade, repurpose and change their home environment as their lifestyle needs evolve. There are plug-in modules to add a home office, a guest bed or a nursery for example. An installed sensor array collects data continuously and through our innovative business model and ethical data brokering platform, homedwellers are able to realise the value of this. The Model-TS1 is a connected home in every way and enables homedwellers to engage with their personal and local environments in ways that were only available to the wealthy in luxury homes. Working with a consortium of partners including the University of Surrey, Bouygues and KPMG, GlobalHOM are reimagining the future where the home adapts to the needs of the user to support life's evolving needs. This project funding award will see the development of the current TS1 engineering to be production ready in collaboration with industry and academic partners. It will also see the deployment of a full scale prototype on the grounds of the University of Surrey to serve as a proof-of-concept, enabling us to take it closer to our first UK connected community development."