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The voice of our sustainable built environment

UKGBC is the membership-led industry network radically transforming the sustainability of the built environment. Powered by 700+ members, UKGBC is at the forefront of positively influencing policy, identifying the pathways to propel the sector forward sustainably and driving the solutions to transform our buildings, communities, cities and infrastructure so that people and nature thrive.

Together, our impact is greater

The UKGBC network is now 700+ 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.

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100+ Innovative Start-ups

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Future event

Net Zero Carbon Buildings: Transitioning from Framework to new Standard

This online learning event will inform built environment stakeholders about the transition from UKGBC’s 2019 Net Zero Carbon Buildings: A Framework Definition to the UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard over the next year, before the first full version of the Standard – which will allow formal verification – is published. It will also introduce UKGBC’s ongoing project to evolve the Framework Definition, allowing the updated version to be used alongside the Standard.
11 Dec, 2024
Event
Online

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.
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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.
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Climate Resilience webinar

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.
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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.   
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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.
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retrofit

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.
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Our Resource Library

Explore a range of resources from UKGBC that are designed to drive progress toward a sustainable built environment.

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What our network are saying…

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“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.
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