<p><p><p><span class="xcontentpasted0"><span>Taylor Wimpey has launched its zero carbon ready homes trial of five prototype properties on a live development site. </span></span><span></span></p><p><span><span> </span></span><span>The trial aims to demonstrate how the housebuilding industry can deliver homes to 2025’s Future Homes Standard (FHS) in different ways through varying combinations of technologies. Homes under the trial will run fully on electric, featuring triple glazing and enhanced building fabric. </span></p><p><span><span> </span></span><span>Inside the five prototype properties at its development site in Sudbury, Suffolk, Taylor Wimpey will test a range of energy efficient and low carbon technologies to “radically reduce the carbon emissions and footprint” of the homes. This includes a number of air source heat pumps, heat pump cylinders, electric panel heating, smart cylinders and mechanical ventilation heat recovery. The housebuilder will also test waste water heat recovery, underfloor heating, “thermaskirt” heated skirting boards, infrared radiant heating, “sleek” photovoltaic solar systems, battery storage and electric vehicle charging. </span></p><p><span>Taylor Wimpey said the homes had been designed to be sold and inhabited, with the new technologies working “seamlessly” and efficiently for customers. The trial, it explained, would seek to find solutions to producing scalable, high quality, zero carbon ready homes, while allowing it to collate customer feedback on the …