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What did party conferences tell us about the politics surrounding the built environment? UKGBC Senior Policy Advisor looks back across the conference highlights as parties grapple with questions of how to build the homes people need, strengthen local economies and deliver tangible improvements in people’s daily lives.

UKGBC’s Annual General Meeting was held yesterday, 30 September, 2026 in the offices of Perkins&Will,…

Extreme heat, floods and rising insurance costs are forcing real estate leaders to rethink resilience. Duncan Price, #BuildingLife Roadmap Ambassador and Partner at Buro Happold, explains how integrating decarbonisation and climate adaptation, guided by UKGBC’s Net Zero Whole Life Carbon Roadmap and Climate Resilience Roadmap, can protect asset value and secure investment.

Miliband’s UN General Assembly intervention is welcome, but we need to act on it at home.

By asking how value is created and defined, the framework sets out a regenerative vision…

This year’s tests will be big: Burnham’s government needs to show it can deliver on…

The last few months have seen a lot of activity on whole life carbon (WLC),…

One of the most significant of these new policy interventions is the Carbon Border Adjustment…

Sustainable leadership in construction starts with a mindset shift. Discover how systems thinking and collaboration can transform built environment practices.

Read our Policy Team’s response to the updated National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF).

UKGBC’s UK Climate Resilience and Net Zero Whole Life Carbon Roadmaps set the ambition, but delivery depends on people. Douglas Morrison, Deputy CEO at BE-ST, explores why the construction sector needs a more coherent, responsive skills system to turn low carbon and resilient building ambitions into reality.

What does it take to lead on climate at board level? At UKGBC’s Recalibrate ‘Night at the Museum’ event, C-suite executives explored the legacy they want to leave behind, guided by Jonathon Porritt’s stark take on the climate crisis.

Basil, who brings decades of finance, investor relations and commercial development to the role, was…

Britain’s buildings, transport and drainage were built for a climate that’s gone. Emma Howard Boyd CBE explains why adaptation can’t wait any longer.

Shreya Aneja, Architectural Designer and Sustainable Design Coordinator at White Arkitekter, reflects on her experience leading on the Whole Life Carbon Framework at UKGBC.

A Prime Minister who knows our world Andy Burnham’s political trajectory on the built environment…

As Andy Burnham settles into No.10 and begins to set out his agenda, now is…

Meet the members of this year’s UKGBC Advisory Group who are supporting our Solutions & Innovation workstream.

The built environment faces mounting pressure to deliver on climate mitigation, resilience and nature recovery simultaneously. Recent heatwaves and wildfires across the UK show these are interdependent outcomes of a single system, not separate challenges. Yet much of the sector still operates in silos, with carbon efforts advancing unevenly while resilience investment and nature recovery lag behind. Read on to find out how UKGBC’s BuildingLife Ambassadors campaign is working to close that gap.

Since 2017, each annual service report of our 15+ year old boiler had been concluding…

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The CCC’s 2026 Progress Report lands at a moment of global instability and domestic uncertainty — and its message for the built environment is clearer than ever.

UKGBC’s Chief Executive, Simon McWhirter, responds to the latest uplift to the Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES) for large privately rented commercial buildings.

Our latest report is designed to accelerate the adoption of innovative low-carbon solutions across the commercial real estate sector.