BRE, Home Quality Mark at Grand Designs with Charlie Luxton

What is Good?

What is Sustainable?

What is Quality?

Gwyn Roberts

New Homes and Communities Lead, BRE

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#betterhomes

What is good?

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Clothes

Recreation

Transport

Food

Hotels

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Only so much information;

• EPCs

• Rightmove + Zoopla etc.

• Withdrawal of Code for Sustainable Homes

Information gap on homes

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What makes a good quality, sustainable home?

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Access & Connectivity for AllGrowing space

Water

Ecology

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Materials

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Evaluation

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Who is BRE?

Building Research Establishment

UK’s leading building Science centre

90 years of testing, researching and innovation of buildings.

Defining Quality

&

Sustainability

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Home - A home is more than 4 walls and a roof, it is

about hearts and minds.

Quality - Everybody wants quality, but

doesn’t always know what it is.

Mark - Provides reassurance, independence,

backed by science.

“Independent benchmarking of new homes is hugely important”.

Cala Homes Chief Executive Alan Brown

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