Increasing productivity and quality in mass house building

GlobalHOM is a research-led property-technology start-up, developing a new approach to home production. They have designed a home as a user focused, high quality and sustainable product by reimagining the value-chain in mass home construction. The first product is a 1,200 square feet two bed residential unit called the GlobalHOM Model TS1.

This project 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.

At the University of Surrey, a set of studies were designed to investigate:

• The societal and ethical issues for designing a governance framework for deployment of responsible research and innovation ‘best practices’ within the construction industry for ‘smart homes’
• Issues for designing best practices surrounding informed and implied consent within the field of data capture for smart homes
• The state of the art in monitoring and modelling indoor air quality
• The state of the art in energy systems for building-integrated generation and control.