Happy Homes Project dissemination event

We’d be delighted if you can join us as we launch the findings of the Happy Homes Project – a two-year research project that explores where Social Value can be identified in housing design - and outline the development of the Happy Homes Toolkit (HHT) to help design teams and clients predict how their projects can offer long-term benefits to residents’ quality of life.

Through interviews with residents and design teams, and visits to residents’ homes Pollard Thomas Edwards has been building a data bank, in collaboration with a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) with the University of Reading (School of Architecture) and Cambridge University (Department of Architecture), to evidence where the design of housing – spaces, elements and details - contributes positively to residents’ quality of life.

Rather than simply measuring Social Value outcomes through volunteering, work experience or local employment, the biggest impact by far comes from the buildings and places we design and deliver. Post Occupancy Evaluation measures building performance, sometimes wellbeing, but it doesn’t identify the Social Value of what we design, or measure the reality of its presence or absence – the Happy Homes Project and the suite of tools we are developing do this.

If you’re interested in the project and would like to find out about how to access a year of free-to-use project testing and validation – please join us at the event.

Further information regarding the project can be found here https://www.happyhomestoolkit.co.uk/

Panel talk:

• Patrick Devlin, Partner, Pollard Thomas Edwards (chair)
• Gloria Vargas Palma, Social Value Design Research Associate, Pollard Thomas Edwards
• Laura Murray, Strategic Partnerships Manager, Countryside Partnerships
• Tabarak Ballal, Professor of Construction Engineering and Management, University of Reading
• Alistair Gale, Head of Programming, Design and Aftercare, Islington Council

• further speakers to be announced

Host or Publisher Pollard Thomas Edwards