Partnership Length1 year (FY 2025/26)
CostMinimum £5,000

Both developing new innovations, and more widely implementing existing solutions, are critical to achieving global sustainability goals and reaching net zero. However, fragmentation across our industry is contributing to practical, viable innovative solutions not scaling up across the industry at the pace required.

However, this is the “Decade of Action” and we need to ensure more sustainable solutions reach widespread deployment, and less start-ups fall victim to the so-called “Valley of Death” between initial R&D and full scale commercialisation.

UKGBC is in a unique position to help overcome scaling challenges specific to the built environment context. This is recognised in a Government report, stating that “The UK Green Building Council should convene industry and relevant members of the Catapult network to encourage greater testing and piloting of innovative solutions in the built environment, including advanced manufacturing solutions to support the transition to net zero“. Further, UKGBC recently celebrated 100+ innovative start-up members in October 2024 and has an extensive network of solution providers and adopters, which can be convened to overcome barriers to scaling.

We are seeking partners to help fund development and deliver work to accelerate scaling of built environment sustainable solutions. We will do this through:

  • Development of a matchmaking service between solution providers and adopters
  • Research into the barriers to different types of solutions scaling in the built environment, and identify ways these barriers can be overcome
  • Work with members with live project opportunities implement innovative sustainability solutions and share learnings

This initiative is ideal for organisations wishing to support:

Increasing the pace and scale of sustainable innovation implementation in the built environment.

Facilitating connections and collaboration across the innovation ecosystem, to encourage greater investment, piloting and implementation of innovative solutions.

Supporting the sharing of learnings from existing innovation implementation projects by collecting and disseminating guidance that will enable built environment practitioners to better understand how to apply innovative solutions on projects.

Supporting innovators access market insight to help inform solution development and increase understanding of challenges.

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Emily-Rose Garnett Solutions and Innovation Advisor

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