The voice of our sustainable built environment
Sustainability Shorts
This video series will help you understand sustainability in the built environment – and identify what role you can play in its transformation.
Future event
Rooted in Resilience: A Nature Retreat for Built Environment Professionals
Join us for a nature retreat to boost your personal resilience, recharge, and take away insights about regenerative leadership.
3 Aug, 2025
Future course
Social Value in the Built Environment – June 2025 (London)
A thorough full-day course exploring how the built environment industry can understand, measure, and communicate its social value.
3 Jun, 2025
Future course
Leading Sustainability
Leading Sustainability is a UKGBC short-course supporting busy built environment professionals to lead on sustainability within their organisations and our industry.
29 May, 2025
How do you create a Flood Resilient City?
Learn how our cities can become safe from flooding, and what practical actions local organisations can take now.
3 Apr, 2025
Together, our impact is greater
The UKGBC network is now 660+ strong, and through working closely together our actions and impact are making waves within the built environment; highlighting what can be achieved through radical collaboration and demonstrating the ability for transformational change when we unite under one vision.
650+ Members
50+ Keystone Members
110+ Innovative Start-ups
30+ Local Authority
Our impact
Climate Change Mitigation
We are in a decisive decade for climate action and with a decreasing number of years left to achieve 2030 climate targets, radical and rapid transformation from businesses and the global economy is essential.
Climate Change Adaptation
As the climate crisis intensifies and extreme weather events become more common, the UK’s buildings, cities and critical infrastructure, and the communities that use and occupy these, are in increasing danger. It’s vital to address how our buildings and infrastructure can be adapted to remain fit for the future.
Nature
Nature is in crisis. The built environment has a critical role to play in protecting and restoring nature and moving to a regenerative model of development.
Resource Use
In the UK, construction, demolition and excavation account for 60% of material use and waste generation. Meanwhile, prices of construction materials in the UK rose by 4.9% between 2017 and 2018. Adopting circular economy principles offers a €1.8 trillion opportunity to the EU between 2015 and 2030.
Health, Wellbeing and Social Value
UKGBC believes that a sustainable built environment must help and support people and communities to thrive.
Home Retrofit
With time running out to keep global temperatures to 1.5 degrees, upgrading the nation’s homes is one of the biggest opportunities the UK has to reduce carbon emissions whilst tackling the cost-of-living crisis, energy security and levelling up.
Systems Change
Our approach to addressing the climate emergency is falling short. We need radical transformation of the systems we operate within to achieve not only a sustainable built environment, but one that positively restores and revitalises the world around us. We must challenge our assumptions and business-as-usual practices, and enable a dramatic paradigm shift that reconciles humans and the rest of nature.
Our Resource Library
Explore a range of resources from UKGBC that are designed to drive progress toward a sustainable built environment.
What our network are saying…
“UKGBC led the world into COP26 by galvanising the majority of the largest UK built environment companies to sign up to the climate gold standard, UN Race to Zero, in far greater numbers than any other country. This is an inspirational example for the global built environment sector.”
Chris Brown
Executive Chair
Igloo Regeneration
“The UKGBC is a great example of what can be achieved by a coalition of the willing, coming together not to compete but to take ownership of an issue affecting everyone in the industry, and also to take responsibility for finding answers to the challenges we face”
Melanie Leech
CEO
British Property Federation
“Laudes Foundation is proud to work with UKGBC, a strategic partner leading the transformation of the built environment. Over the past 15 years, UKGBC has radically improved the way industry collaborates and innovates to reach zero carbon as well as supported policy dialogue that now shapes the sector’s future. We look forward to continuing to partner with them in enabling a regenerative and inclusive built environment.”
Leslie Anne Johnston
CEO
Laudes Foundation
Learn more about our vision for a sustainable built environment where people and nature thrive.