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Lalit Chauhan
Design Director · ZEDPods
Design Director and co-founder of ZEDPods, the UK zero-carbon modular housing studio. Fellow of CIAT.
- Current role
- Design Director
- Practice
- ZEDPods
- Location
- Hertfordshire, UK
- On the podcast
- 1 episode · 2025
The story so far
The path behind Lalit's 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.
Episode 0249 · Architecture Social · 98:33
The Future of Housing: A Deep Dive into Modular Innovation with ZedPods
Modular housing is often discussed as a technical solution, but the harder questions are commercial, political and practical: who pays, who builds, and how do you make the model work?
Inside the conversation
6 moments to start with- 01
00:00 · Introduction and setting the scene
- 02
00:38 · Meet Lalit Chauhary and ZedPods
- 03
01:18 · Studying architecture and early career routes
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06:06 · Early lessons from practice
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10:36 · Starting ZedPods and the first challenges
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16:55 · Breakthrough projects and growth
Profile in brief
The work and context behind Lalit's conversation.
- Current role
- Design Director
- Practice
- ZEDPods
- Location
- Hertfordshire, UK
Continue exploring
Meet the practice behind the work.
Zero-carbon modular affordable housing specialist
- Greater London
- Hybrid
- Commercial
- Mixed-Use
Podcast · moments that play
Start where the idea starts.
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Meet Lalit Chauhary and ZedPods
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Studying architecture and early career routes
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Early lessons from practice
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Starting ZedPods and the first challenges
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Breakthrough projects and growth
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Navigating the pandemic and expansion
Selected work from ZEDPods
Three projects, one connected practice.
A closer look at the practice’s work
Hope Rise
Eleven social-rent homes sit above a retained Bristol car park in a net-zero-operational-carbon modular development.
View project →Marshall Walk
Twelve zero-operational-carbon homes unlock a steep brownfield plot in Bristol for social rent and move-on accommodation.
View project →Fortis House
Twenty-three in-use modular homes create low-energy move-on accommodation above an underused Ashford car park.
View project →