EP 024918 December 2025 · 1 hr 39 min
The Future of Housing: A Deep Dive into Modular Innovation with ZedPods
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About this conversation
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?
Stephen Drew speaks with Lalit Chauhary, Design Director at ZedPods, about modular housing, zero carbon delivery, starting a business, pricing work properly and closing the gap between design ambition and construction reality.
The conversation covers:
How ZedPods grew from an idea into live modular housing projects
What zero carbon delivery means when the building has to perform in use
Why pricing, feasibility and client expectations can make or break a practice
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Stephen Drew
hello everyone. I'm not in Black Heath at the moment and today I'm not getting a fancy coffee or wandering the fields around because I'm actually in the office of an award-winning practice, a design studio, which does super cool stuff, modular, all this crazy stuff that I'm gonna learn about 'cause I'm a bit rusty on the modular stuff.
But I've got the design director with me to explain everything. LA Leads, thank you for having me. How are you? Are you okay?
ZEDPods projects
The work behind the conversation.
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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