ABOUT THE CAMPAIGN
The Build Net Zero Now (BNZN) campaign was a major Good Homes Alliance initiative that ran over several years, bringing together housing providers, designers, engineers and researchers to accelerate the delivery of net zero homes in practice.
Through collaborative working groups, research and industry engagement, the campaign explored key challenges around building performance, ventilation, overheating, energy use and low-carbon housing delivery.
The campaign has now concluded, but its work continues through the Good Homes Alliance’s core themes of Building Performance, Climate Adaptation and Resilience, Healthy Homes, and Planning & Placemaking.
The insights, guidance and collaborations developed through BNZN continue to inform GHA’s research, policy engagement and knowledge sharing across the housing sector.
CAMPAIGN OUTPUTS
Throughout the inaugural year of the campaign, several key themes emerged, warranting a more focused exploration in this second phase. This exploration was facilitated through a series of working groups, resulting in the following significant outputs:
Further outputs and events included:
– Publication of Model Employer’s Requirements and Design Brief Clauses for net zero, health & wellbeing and building performance evaluation.
– Creation of 15 net zero and low energy housing case studies.
– Launch of Build Net Zero Now campaign at Good Homes 2020 Conference: A Net Zero Recovery including keynote speaker Baroness Brown of Cambridge, Deputy Chair of the Committee on Climate Change.
– A year-long series of topical events exploring topics such as net zero and embodied carbon, MMC and green finance. The event series culminated in the Build Net Zero Now Conference Series, featuring keynote speaker Julie James MS, Minister for Climate Change, Welsh Government.
– An event on ‘Net Zero and Community Led Housing’ featuring Ecology Building Society speaking on their support for community led housing schemes.
– A popular webinar co-hosted with TCPA – ‘Local Authorities Leading the Way’.