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Lalit Chauhan
The Future of Housing: A Deep Dive into Modular Innovation with ZedPods
Lalit Chauhan FCIAT, Design Director and co-founder of ZEDPods, on zero-carbon modular housing. Hear his Architecture Social podcast episode.
- Current role
- Design Director
- Practice
- ZEDPods
- Location
- Hertfordshire, UK
Conversation
The thinking behind the work.
Episode 0249 · Architecture Social
The Future of Housing: A Deep Dive into Modular Innovation with ZedPods
In this episode, we sit down with Lalit Chauhary, Design Director at Zed Pods, an award winning modular design studio that’s changing the game in social housing. From studying architecture in India to leading zero carbon projects in the UK, Lalit shares the journey and the lessons learned along the way. We dive into the challenges of modular construction, closing the performance gap, and building a sustainable business that actually works. Plus, how technology and smart thinking are shaping the
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Selected work
Selected work.
Bristol, United Kingdom
Hope Rise
Eleven social-rent homes sit above a retained Bristol car park in a net-zero-operational-carbon modular development.
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Marshall Walk
Twelve zero-operational-carbon homes unlock a steep brownfield plot in Bristol for social rent and move-on accommodation.
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Fortis House
Twenty-three in-use modular homes create low-energy move-on accommodation above an underused Ashford car park.
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Eastlands ↗
Five zero-operational-carbon council homes add social-rent housing and landscape improvements in Hemyock.
Hill Street House ↗
Twelve ultra-low-carbon social-rent homes reuse part of a steep car park in central Newport.
About
The story so far.
The person behind the work.
Lalit Chauhan FCIAT is Design Director and co-founder of ZEDPods, a UK modular build studio specialising in zero-carbon, affordable homes.
Lalit studied architecture in Delhi, India, before moving to the UK to study sustainable urbanism at the Bartlett School of Planning, UCL. He co-founded ZEDPods in 2016, helping grow it from an early prototype at the BRE Innovation Park in Watford into a turnkey studio delivering volumetric modular homes for housing associations and local authorities.
At ZEDPods, Lalit leads on design and on bridging the gap between design and construction, with a particular focus on eliminating the performance gap and delivering genuinely low-carbon homes. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists.
He features on the Architecture Social Podcast discussing his journey into modular construction, the studio's air-rights and brownfield model, pricing and business lessons, hiring, and the future of modular housing.
The practice
ZEDPods
Zero-carbon modular affordable housing specialist
Architecture practice · Greater London
Expertise
What I bring.
- Current role
- Design Director
- Practice
- ZEDPods
- Location
- Hertfordshire, UK
- On the podcast
- 1 episode · 2025
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