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The challenge 🫣

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There is no other company in the world who has built a business that can scale both in tech & business model to solve the housing & climate problem that AUAR addresses. Continuing the status quo means that skyrocketing costs, a rapidly shrinking workforce and a highly fragmented value chain make it difficult for the construction industry to deliver sustainable, beautiful and affordable homes at scale. And alternative solutions, such as centralised, fully-integrated factories are failing: the huge upfront and operational costs mean they can’t radically reduce costs. This lack of cost competitiveness means they are also extremely vulnerable to cyclical downturns in the market.

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What we do 🤓

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AUAR offers a flexible, No-CapEx ‘hardware-as-a-service’ model for our pop-up Robotic Micro-Factories so our customers can quickly get set up without large capital expenses. We remote-support customers with AUARStudio, our proprietary cloud-based design-for-manufacturing software platform and AI-ready data model, automating thousands of hours of inefficient, manual processes in the home building process.

Using AUAR Robotic Micro-Factories, our customers can produce the timber frame panels for 1 home in less than 12 hours, resulting in a £2.5m ROI opportunity per year per Robotic Micro-Factory.

Using AUARStudio, customers can plan their projects all the way from design to manufacturing, offering significant cost savings, increased predictability and lower risk, validated at >£10k savings per home.

AUAR customers benefit from knowledge-sharing with other customers across the AUAR network, continually learning from each other on how to build better, more sustainable and affordable homes at lower cost, and at scale.

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How it works ⚙️

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• We automate the gathering of design, material, regulations & supply chain requirements to add our partners to our AI-ready data model.
• We generate, productise & optimise home designs using our cloud-based design-to-manufacture software platform that are 100% tailored to our partner’s requirements, enabling instant cost estimations, integrated structural engineering and as many design variations as they need, as well as sustainability requirements exceeding LEED, RIBA & SCOSA targets.
• Our software platform automatically generates the robot code for our pop-up Robotic Micro-Factory to manufacture timber frame panels for the core & shell of a single home in less than 12 hours, can be operated by 1 lesser-skilled operator for up to 4-5 Micro-Factories, and has a yearly capacity of up to 180 homes per year.

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Sustainability Approach 🌱

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We have completed a sustainability assessment that shows that an AUAR home’s structural timber frame panel system has an embodied carbon footprint of 72kgCO2e/m² (A1-A5), which surpasses the 2030 targets set by LETI, SCORS, and BREEAM, and represents less than 40% of the embodied carbon of an equivalent structure in traditional construction (load-bearing cavity walls and hollow core concrete slabs). The timber used in our homes sequesters -175kgCO2e/m² of biogenic carbon, surpassing the upfront carbon impact.

As a result, AUAR homes are carbon sinks**:** they have a net negative carbon footprint during the lifetime of the buildings, actively storing carbon from the atmosphere. The system is grounded in a whole-life approach and circular design principles. It is designed for disassembly, and the modularity of our timber frame panels allows them to be reused in other homes at the end of their lifecycle, extending material longevity and sequestering biogenic carbon for a longer period.

From a social sustainability perspective, our approach provides high-quality homes at an affordable price, supporting crucial infrastructure for communities. By partnering with local home builders, developers & manufacturers we also help keep jobs and the value generated within the community.