From entry-level homes to smart green villas - designed for efficient production, rapid deployment, cost control, and reliable performance at scale.
SHIFT House delivers proven housing models (SHIFT House 45 - 120) combining passive design, efficient construction, and smart systems to enable faster, affordable, and scalable housing development across African climates.
These results are achieved through the SHIFT House standardised models, demonstrating the system's ability to deliver measurable ESG performance at scale.
Up to 80-100%
Up to 40-70%
Up to 50-80%
Up to 2.6-3.7
tCO2e/year
0+
Supporting construction and local value chains
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Housing up to 20 people (4 families)
Designed to meet ESG performance targets and support eligibility for green and climate finance.
SHIFT House is a standardised housing system designed to deliver affordable, climate-resilient homes at scale across Africa.
Built and validated through the SHIFT Living Lab in Cameroon, the platform combines proven housing models (45-120), passive design strategies, and efficient construction systems to enable faster delivery, lower costs, and reliable performance.
Rather than developing one-off projects, SHIFT House enables replicable housing deployment, allowing developers, landowners, and partners to implement tested solutions with confidence.
One Standard (SHIFT House) • Multiple Models (45-120) • Scalable Deployment
Our Vision
To make high-quality, climate-resilient housing accessible at scale across Africa through a standardised, locally adapted housing system.
SHIFT House enables homes to be designed, produced, and deployed efficiently, using climate-smart and locally integrated solutions.
SHIFT House works with selected projects aligned with its housing models to ensure efficient and scalable development.
Learn more on the About pageSHIFT House integrates environmental performance, social impact, and transparent governance into a standardised housing system designed for scalable deployment across Africa.
Designed to reduce energy demand, water use, and lifecycle emissions across all SHIFT housing models.
SHIFT House delivers measurable social impact by creating local jobs, strengthening skills, and improving access to climate-resilient housing.
Built to align with international standards and support scalable, investment-ready housing development.
SHIFT House is designed to deliver measurable ESG performance while enabling scalable, investment-ready housing deployment.
Principal Investigator (PI)
Experience a real-world platform for affordable, climate-resilient housing. Explore construction systems, housing models, and development strategies designed for scalable projects across Africa.
These products form part of the SHIFT House Standard — a low-carbon, climate-responsive construction system designed for scalable green housing across Africa.
Alongside technical innovation, SHIFT House carries a wider project vision: climate-smart housing in Africa must connect resilience, dignity, local value chains and long-term community impact.
SECAM is presented here as part of that broader event ecosystem around the project, helping position SHIFT House not only as a construction prototype, but as a thought-led initiative for sustainable transformation.
SHIFT House is officially recognized as a "Climate Good Practice" by Climate Chance in the Buildings & Sustainable Construction category.
This recognition confirms the project's relevance for the energy transition, climate adaptation, and low-carbon construction in Africa.
La Voix du Centre presented SHIFT House as a project bringing green and intelligent technologies to affordable, sustainable housing in Cameroon.
This article strengthens local visibility for the initiative and highlights its role in making climate-smart construction more accessible.
In its June newsletter, WSSET presents SHIFT House within a wider sustainable energy and innovation ecosystem, giving the project stronger visibility among researchers, institutions and implementation partners.
The message is especially important for SHIFT House: WSSET states that it supports the dissemination and exploitation of sustainable energy projects through its international network, helping promising solutions gain traction and impact.
Why this matters
External editorial recognition helps position SHIFT House not only as a prototype, but as a credible low-carbon housing solution ready to attract collaborators, funders and technical allies.
Newsletter reference
WSSET June Newsletter
Contact mention: Dr Ingr. B. MEMPOUO
Research • Training • Scalable Housing Innovation
SHIFT House is more than a project - it is Africa's First Climate-Resilient Housing Living Lab.
Through the Green Inn & Living Lab, SHIFT House connects research, training, and real-world demonstration to develop scalable, climate-resilient housing solutions.
We operate where it matters most: on the ground, in real African conditions.
Every contribution helps transform research into real housing solutions on the ground.
Africa needs housing that is affordable, climate-resilient, scalable, and locally built. The SHIFT Living Lab transforms ideas into evidence, and evidence into deployment-ready solutions.
Every contribution helps transform research into real housing solutions on the ground - training people, building capacity, and accelerating sustainable development across Africa.
