Bristol Housing Festival

The Climate Smart Cities Challenge is a city-based open innovation competition that invited technologists, businesses and investors to develop, test and scale cutting-edge solutions in four cities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Bristol was chosen as one of the host cities, and is now completing a system demonstrator with the winning team.

Working with Building Growth South West and MOBIE, we helped to deliver Workforce for the Future, a program to help SME’s engage with MMC on behalf of the West of England Combined Authority.

In April 2020, a consortium of partners led by YTKO and including Bristol City Council, Bristol Housing Festival, BRE, and 9 leading modular housing companies were awarded an Innovate UK grant for their project, Enabling Housing Innovation for Inclusive Growth.

This is an 18 month programme working with multiple partners towards the delivery of a major Research, Development and Innovation (R,D&I) in the use of Modern Methods of Construction (MMC).

We facilitated a design competition for Brighter Places for their Midland Road Site in Bristol’s Old Market Quarter. The competition invited local architects to submit innovative and solutions-focused proposals for a 100% affordable development of exceptional quality that complements the local area.

We facilitated a design competition for Goram Homes for the old school site in Knowle West, which borders the Western Slopes. The competition invited local architects to submit imaginative and ecologically innovative proposals to complement the local area.

We facilitated a design competition for Goram Homes and Recliffe Neighbourhood Forum for the Portwall Lane Car Park situated to the north of St Mary Redcliffe Church. The competition invited local architects to submit inspiring and inclusive proposals for a mixed-use, residential led scheme and for exciting ideas about the surrounding area, which would consider a re-imagined vision for Redcliffe Way as a whole.

In partnership with Bristol City Council and CLH West Hub we invited architects with an interest in Community Led Housing (CLH) to work with Bristol-based CLH groups to help them realise their ambitions and unlock small sites in the city for affordable housing.

We facilitated a design competition with Goram Homes for their Castle Park site. The competition invited architects with big, bold ideas to submit proposals.

Trinity College Bristol and Bristol Housing Festival hosted a design competition to find a partner for the first phase of their site redevelopment.