Sustainability & Affordability

Our fundamental offering has been developed with sustainability and affordability in mind across the lifecycle. The sustainability hierarchy of reduce, reuse and recycle will be deployed across our entire manufacturing and delivery systems to minimise our environmental impact.

Additionally, our unique structural design and technology portfolio have been developed for greatly-enhanced energy efficiency throughout the operation and maintenance of our homes.

With our unique system, we will provide enormous savings on initial construction, operation and maintenance to our customers to reduce costs and encourage rapid adoption.

Construction Deal Targets

Our ground-breaking developments and supply structure enable us to easily surpass all of the following domestic and international construction sustainability and affordability targets.

-33%

In cost of construction and lifetime costs.

-50%

In inception time to completed build.

-50%

In greenhouse gas emissions in the built environment.

-50%

In the trade gap between total imports & exports.

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good Health and Well-Being

Since we spend 90% of our lives indoors and around two thirds of this in our home (tendency rising), there is a clear relationship between housing and personal health. Housing affects our health and well-being in three ways, physical conditions within homes, neighbourhood surroundings and housing affordability.
With our housing solutions, we address all of these variables through optimisation and automated adjustment of individual room climate, connected and transparent neighbourhoods, and unseen affordability so that low income families have access to more money for healthy food and education.

Clean Water and Sanitation

Since fresh water makes up only 3% of the worlds water resources and 2% is inaccessible since they are locked in glaciers and snowfields, the remaining 1% of accessible fresh water is of immense value. We use intelligent water systems to reuse minor polluted water and even use rainwater to flush the toilets or for gardening. For us it has to be unthinkable in future to use fresh water to flush the toilet.

Affordable and Clean Energy

Affordable and clean energy has to be one of the leading principles when developing housing of the future. Every single one of our houses comes with solar power and energy storage to optimise energy consumption and recuperation with renewable energy sources and the local power grid.

Decent Work and Economic Growth

Modular housing moves dangerous construction work into production plants and creates safer and more productive jobs. Moreover, we operate with an extensive supply chain, creating value all over the UK and in later stages the entire world. The achieved efficiency gains also promotes economic growth and job security.

Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

With our houses we ensure future proof housing infrastructure, investments in R&D and build our entire business around sustainability. With the use of recycled plastics and therefore prevention of plastic waste and pollution, we create something new to exceed today's normal housing lifetimes.

Reduced Inequalities

The disproportionally high real estate prices have promoted increasing inequalities between high- and low-income families and even increased the gap between them since many high-income families own real estate. With our affordable houses, we are able to provide affordable and high-quality housing to lower-income families and reduce inequalities within our society.

Sustainable Cities and Communities

Creating sustainable cities and communities could be seen as our main sustainable development goal. Inclusivity, sustainability, resilience and safety are all areas current cities and city developments are lacking massively. We increase inclusivity through affordable housing prices, sustainability through the use of recycled materials, smart and renewable energy solutions and responsible water usage, resilience through much stronger, more flexible and longer lasting materials and safety through connected and transparent neighbourhoods.

Responsible Consumption and Production

The world is still using natural resources in unsustainable ways, global material footprints, electric waste and fuel subsidies continue to rise while only less than 20% is being recycled. Since our main materials have been recycled, and we use AI for energy and water management as well as absolute consumer transparency within our houses and communities, we reduce waste and raise awareness in all consumers.

Climate Action

All of our waste in production and house lifetime reductions are in the end massive and direct steps to fight climate change and lower the massive impact of CO2 emissions of the construction industry. While doing so, we bring maximum support for the bold 2050 100% net zero emission of buildings and infrastructure goal of the World Green Building Council.

Life Below Water

Through driving up the demand of recycled plastics, we expect to increase prices and incentivise higher recycling rates of plastics which will reduce the amount ending up in the sea.

Life on Land

Our wide use of recycled plastics does not only hinder vast amount of plastics to get dumped into the sea or landfill, it also makes cutting down trees, destroying forests and biodiversity, obsolete. This is especially important since forest areas continue to decline at an alarming speed.

Wider Problems We Approach

Humanity is currently facing three urgent crises; climate change, with unprecedented ecological and environmental destruction; a tragic housing crisis which is damaging the fabric of society; vast amounts of plastic waste which are harming the earth’s ecosystems.

Construction (11%), maintenance and operation (28%) of the built environment contribute 39% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Deforestation, mining and quarrying to provide the raw materials are continuing to wreak havoc on our wildlife habitats.

Inefficient conventional systems, coupled with explosive population growth, have caused a prolonged under-supply of suitable and efficient housing to the markets. This has created a dramatic divergence in affordability and has exacerbated inequality.

Over 8 billion tonnes of plastic have been produced to date, yet only 9% of this material has been recycled. The rest has either been sent for landfill, incinerated or has entered our precious oceans, causing terrible environmental and ecological damage.

Vector Homes have developed a super-sustainable smart solution to tackle these three grand challenges simultaneously, and provide the foundation for a brighter and eco-friendly future.