The system was developed by academics from the University of Cambridge and Edinburgh Napier University. It has been used in a study for two developments delivered by Tide Construction, with the modular system used to construct a total of 879 homes.
The study calculated that around 28,000 tonnes of embodied carbon emissions were saved from construction across both schemes combined – well ahead of the industry’s current targets.
The researchers believe their approach has the potential to radically reduce the carbon footprint of the construction sector and could aid the government’s ambition to build 300,000 better-quality homes.
Embodied carbon - the CO2 produced during the design, construction and decommissioning phases of a development - is dramatically lower when modular systems are used because buildings require less volume of carbon-intensive products such as concrete and steel.
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