UK Green Building Council (UKGBC)

🌆 What does deep retrofit look like in action? In our latest blog, we reflect on our recent site visit to Coal House in Cardiff, where UKGBC members explored real examples of retrofit strategies that reduce embodied carbon, improve energy performance, and prioritise occupant wellbeing. From solar PVs to BMS integration and smart air quality controls, this is sustainability in practice! 🖱️Read the blog here: https://lnkd.in/eG9SKjwN 🔎 Would you like to attend UKGBC’s next site visit? Join us at Paradise 11, an exciting opportunity to learn from an innovative commercial new build project. Get your ticket: https://lnkd.in/ebKvVEGU -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Coal House Project Partners: Create Real Estate , MAPP, Stride Treglown, SVM Associates, Oktra, Low Carbon Alliance

📣Our built environment must prepare and respond to a changing climate. As part of our UK Climate Resilience Roadmap, we sought to create a vision of what a climate resilient built environment could be. This vision, created by the stakeholders involved in the Roadmap project, sets out key actions required from organisations, private sector, government, and civil society in order to achieve and maintain climate resilience. 🛣️The UK Climate Resilience Roadmap, launching on June 26th, seeks to create a pathway to achieve a resilient built environment by 2050. 🖱️Learn more about the Roadmap and download the Vision here: https://lnkd.in/eufChXxe #UKClimateResilienceRoadmap #ClimateResilience

🎉 It's New Member Monday! Help us welcome ten of our newest members who have joined the UKGBC network of organisations dedicated to a better built environment. 1. GNM Developments Limited - A specialist property developer with a primary focus on residential, BtR, Coliving, PBSA and Retirement Care. 2. HiPer it! - Platform that optimises energy consumption, reduces technical operations costs, and makes buildings AI-ready. 3. Carb0n - Sustainability consultancy that supports real estate clients in their energy transition and asset optimisation. 4. Ivynest - A user-focused platform that offers smarter sustainable solutions and delivers energy retrofits by combining advanced technology, precise design, and trusted partnerships. 5. Introba - A building engineering and consulting firm that combines cutting-edge digital solutions with emerging innovations and industry-leading sustainability strategies. 6. The Chancery Lane Project - helps organisations reduce emissions using the power of legal documents and processes. 7. EcoVadis - Provider of business sustainability ratings based on an evaluation of how well a company has integrated the principles of Sustainability / CSR into their business and management system. 8. igloo Regeneration - Sustainable developer that works closely with partners, communities, and investors to create equitable and regenerative places. 9. The Dulwich Estate - A registered charity that offers educational opportunities to disadvantaged children and housing to the elderly in need. 10. Armatherm™ US/UK Thermal Bridging Solutions - structural thermal break materials that provide a combination of low thermal conductivity and high compressive strength that helps reduce heat loss in wall assemblies, transitions, and structural connections throughout the building envelope. Interested in joining our network of organisations at the forefront of the #netzero transition? Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/eNgVcwDP

Huge pleasure to record an episode of BBC Radio 4' Rare Earth programme about concrete! Famously hard to decarbonise, we talked about why concrete is loved and loathed, and the frontiers of sustainable alternatives. Thank you for having me! The show was presented by Helen Czerski and Tom Heap, my fellow guests were Roma Agrawal and Colin Hills in the studio and a lovely surprise to hear James Low from UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) member org Mace in the clip too! Listen live today at 12:04 or afterwards "wherever you get your podcasts" :) https://lnkd.in/eQFe6tRe

🌲 Join UKGBC's Masterclass on Biodiversity Net Gain in Birmingham! 🌿 50% of the UK’s economy depends on nature, yet it’s one of the most biodiversity-depleted countries in the world. In this session, in partnership with Greengage Environmental Ltd and led by Morgan Taylor, you will learn how to navigate the new requirements set out in the Government's Environment Act and surpass the mandated 10% biodiversity uplift for your projects. 🎫 Sign up now! https://lnkd.in/eyzT_-Fb

✨ And.. it’s a wrap! 📚 The ‘Class of 2025’ has graduated from the UKGBC – AtkinsRéalis Carbon Academy. It’s been brilliant working with another group of smart and talented engineers, designers, and project managers on unpicking carbon on projects, finding ways to reduce it (‘Avoid, switch and improve’ anybody?) and connecting the dots to wider questions of sustainability and resilience. We also had a lot of fun along the way! Thanks to Karen Hills, Lucie Murphy, the AtkinsRéalis team , and everybody who participated with enthusiasm, curiosity, and their unique perspectives from across countries and sectors. It’s about the heart as much as the head, and we hope we nurtured both in our programme. We look forward to staying in touch with you all and your journeys. Are you looking to upskill your team or build up a cohort of carbon leaders in your business? UKGBC Bespoke Learning supports organisations in designing and delivering impactful and engaging training tailored to their needs. Contact learning@ukgbc.org or visit https://lnkd.in/ewpRq5_8 to find out more. Because every job is a sustainability job. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you to everyone who participated! Adam Corbin, PTech, Ailsa Allan, Alex Ashton, Amandeep Singh Rana, Amruth Raj, CEng IEng MICE, Angela Cruickshanks, Angelo Charalambous, Carly A. Gilley, Chanel Muhorakeye, David Isherwood (He/Him), Emily Cross, Emily Percival, Fiona Carr, Gabriel C Devoto, Ph.D., Gordon C., Hamza Magdy, Hannah J Evans MRICS, Hossam Alalaily,PhD,PMP,PEng, Jessica Daughtry, Jocelyn Dahme, P.Eng., Katherine Stanger, Louis Melotto, Maggie Wieteska, Mandeepak Singh, Mathew Metcalf, Maxwell Nelson, Michelle Empleo, Milos Mirkovic, Mir Misbahuddin, Padraic Hamrogue, Panos Bafis, Paul L., PEI-CHUN LIU, Peter Houston, Peter Koehler, Rania Hameed MSc, Robert Santiago, Rory Edwards, Roshni Shah Ali, Sahil Kanekar, Sandeep Pawar, Sarah Elmahdy, Sophie Ridyard, Stephanie Wright, Tiju Zakariah, Tom Flannery CEng MIMechE, Umer Akber, Victoria Lauder, Vidya Wagh, Wiem Jbeli, William Jones.

📣Our built environment must prepare and respond to a changing climate. As part of our UK Climate Resilience Roadmap, we sought to create a vision of what a climate resilient built environment could be. This vision, created by the stakeholders involved in the Roadmap project, sets out key actions required from organisations, private sector, government, and civil society in order to achieve and maintain climate resilience. 🛣️The UK Climate Resilience Roadmap, launching on June 26th, seeks to create a pathway to achieve a resilient built environment by 2050. 🖱️Learn more about the Roadmap and download the Vision here: https://lnkd.in/eufChXxe #UKClimateResilienceRoadmap #ClimateResilience

🌱 Join Leading Sustainability, UKGBC’s newest course. 📚 Whether you are just getting started in your sustainability journey or you’re already more well-versed, Leading Sustainability short course is perfect for you! Discover what behaviours are required to drive transformational change, access key insights and cross-cutting learnings from across UKGBC’s wider leadership programmes. 🕛 With plenty of flexibility to fit your busy schedule and on-the-move access to content, now it’s the time to explore the change needed within your organisation and beyond.  🎫 Sign up now! The course starts on 29th May: https://lnkd.in/ePq6c9Bh

🧱Last week, we hosted a roundtable to explore the crucial role of policy in reducing embodied carbon emissions. Kirsty Girvan, UKGBC's Policy and Places Affairs Advisor, discusses her key takeaways below. 🖱Learn more about our work on Embodied Carbon here: https://lnkd.in/e4T2T-5E

💭 How can we create flood-resilient cities? ⛈According to the Environment Agency, 1 in 4 homes in the UK will be at risk of flooding by 2050. The built environment sector must act now to ensure that our cities are able to navigate these flooding events with limited effects on local communities. Our latest blog outlines key actions that organisations can take to make sure that our cities and communities are resilient to an increasingly volatile climate. 🖱️Read the blog here: https://lnkd.in/e4Yd8k53 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 🛣️ In June, we will launch our UK Climate Resilience Roadmap, which is a collaborative effort between some of the built environment's most influential, trusted, and experienced players. It will offer a clear pathway that will allow industry and policymakers to the shape the flood resilient cities of the future. 🖱️Learn more about the Roadmap here: https://lnkd.in/eufChXxe #ClimateResilience #FloodResilience #FloodResilientCities #FloodProofCities #FloodRisk