About

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.

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