“Organizations who are not now thinking about ALL aspects of their emissions are going to fall behind as legislature changes. Especially as building design and construction is increasingly successfully reducing operational carbon footprint, embodied carbon will be a greater factor in the overall impact. Anyone claiming to be zero carbon/environmentally friendly where they can’t detail their responsibly sourced supply chain and know their scope 3 emissions are basically greenwashing.” - Ele George, Advocate for Build Environment Sector Change, Founding Director of Elevate UK.

Protecting our environment and bringing land to life is of high importance to us, and we prove this with the building materials and processes that we use.

• Our homes are built to a higher standard in sustainable development - designed to be deployed to conditions with widely variable infrastructural availability and functionality.

• We use fire safe materials for high density application (fire retardant for 1-4 hours)

• Our homes are Mold and Bacteria Resistant (effective for humid climates)

• They arrive flat-packed, scalable, and are culturally and functionally adaptable – assembled with human power or limited machinery (i.e. screw driver and power drill).

• Kauri Foundation homes are Self-Contained, with an option to include water supply, compostable lavatory, & solar panel harvesting

• Each home maximizes space, and minimizes carbon footprint in transportation

• Each home is engineered for seismic & hurricane force winds

• ALL of our materials have passed multiple international building codes

• Our finished home sizes range from 5.9 sq/m to 111.5 sq/m (64 sq/ft to 1,200 sq/ft), with options for single occupancy and scalable for up to a family of 7+

• We offer an Economic Empowerment Option - a semi-finished product (i.e. Building Envelope) which will generate local employment and skill-training for communities involved in assembling housing structures.

• Culture/People - Respecting and preserving local culture and traditions are important. We recognize no two communities or development projects are alike. We make it our daily mission to provide each development project with a fully customized, culturally competent local approach. The result is we can create both homes and economic development.

• Adaptability -Our design allows us to offer homes from 64-1200 sq ft while adaptable to the deployment topography and local climate. Our modular approach permitting a temporary house to be repurposed and integrated to the permanent dwelling, hence reducing construction waste and better for the environment.

We’re excited to see the changes that Ele and her company, Elevate, are bringing to UK construction sites. We hope that more people will recognize and support this movement. Get involved with us by clicking the link below!

References

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ele-george/