Taylor Wimpey launches zero carbon ready homes trial

Taylor Wimpey has launched its zero carbon ready homes trial of five prototype properties on a live development site.?

?The trial aims to demonstrate how the housebuilding industry can deliver homes to 2025’s Future Homes Standard (FHS) in different ways through varying combinations of technologies. Homes under the trial will run fully on electric, featuring triple glazing and enhanced building fabric.??

?Inside the five prototype properties at its development site in Sudbury, Suffolk, Taylor Wimpey will test a range of energy efficient and low carbon technologies to “radically reduce the carbon emissions and footprint” of the homes. This includes a number of air source heat pumps, heat pump cylinders, electric panel heating, smart cylinders and mechanical ventilation heat recovery. The housebuilder will also test waste water heat recovery, underfloor heating, “thermaskirt” heated skirting boards, infrared radiant heating, “sleek” photovoltaic solar systems, battery storage and electric vehicle charging.?

?Taylor Wimpey’s development site will include an educational hub to showcase its approach to the FHS and the low carbon technologies and materials harnessed for the pilot. The five trial plots are expected to be completed “in the coming weeks”.?

Taylor Wimpey’s Net Zero Transition Plan comprises a four-stage roadmap to achieving net zero emissions across its value chain by 2045 which is five years ahead of the government’s target. Taylor Wimpey said that since 2013, it had reduced its emissions intensity by?51%.?

This adds to the company’s environment strategy, launched in 2021, which includes “ambitious targets” up to 2030 on climate change.?