Membership Opportunities (October 2025-December 2025)

Your UKGBC membership unlocks access to cutting-edge insights, innovative solutions, and a powerful platform to shape policy and industry practice. Discover the latest opportunities to get involved.

Your UKGBC membership unlocks access to cutting-edge insights, innovative solutions, and a powerful platform to shape policy and industry practice. It enables you to: 

  • Connect & Collaborate: Build relationships that drive real-world change.
  • Learn & Grow: Empower your people. Future-proof your organisation.
  • Lead & Influence: Shape the future of the built environment.

Explore the opportunities included with your membership below. Each links to more details, and our team is always ready to help at membership@ukgbc.org. 

Membership gives you the tools, networks, and knowledge to drive impact, without extra cost for these core opportunities.

Connect & Collaborate

COP30: Learn about the events, activities and conversations UKGBC is engaging with during pre-COP in Sao Paolo and COP30 in Belem, Brazil, and explore how you can get involved here.  

UKGBC and London Build Expo: UKGBC is partnering with London Build for conversations around sustainability, innovation, and the future of our cities. Find out more here. 

Join UKGBC Forums: Engage with peers, share insights, and tackle emerging challenges in a trusted, collaborative environment. These forums are designed to help you co-create solutions with industry leaders: 

  • Net Zero Forum Energy Distribution Systems. Sign up here.  
  • Circular Economy Forum. Sign up here. 
  • Embodied Ecological Impacts Forum. Sign up here 

 Network with peers: Expand your professional network and connect with other members working toward a more sustainable future:

Explore all upcoming events here: https://ukgbc.org/events/  

SCALING SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS

Our Scaling Sustainable Solutions initiative accelerates the adoption of innovative sustainability solutions across the built environment. While the sector produces exciting new products, methods, and business models, many stall at the pilot stage – caught in the “Valley of Death” due to regulatory uncertainty, risk aversion, or lack of visibility. 

We help innovations thrive by providing networks, credibility, and practical pathways, ensuring they move from concept to widespread impact.

Get Involved

Connecting Innovators with Opportunities: Use our matchmaking service to connect solution providers with projects and organisations ready to implement innovative approaches. 

Showcasing and Spreading Innovation: Participate in events designed to highlight breakthrough solutions and accelerate their adoption across the sector. 

UK CLIMATE RESILIENCE ROADMAP

Climate impacts are already hitting the UK economy—costing 1.1% of GDP today and projected to reach 7.4% by 2100. The CCC warns of a potential 4% GDP loss by 2050 without adaptation. Nearly half of UK businesses have already felt the effects, and more than half have had to change how they operate. 

The UK Climate Resilience Roadmap lays out a clear vision for a climate-resilient built environment, providing actionable recommendations for industry and policy. The next phase defines concrete steps for different stakeholders to improve climate resilience in the short, medium, and long term. 

Get Involved

Learn the Fundamentals of Climate Resilience: Attend our online course to discover the key principles of climate resilience in the built environment. 

  • Dates:1 December, 2 February, 6 April, 1 June, Location: Online 

Climate Resilience: An Action Planning Learning Workshop for Project and Design Team Members: Get the tools you need to develop a high-level action plan for the climate resilience for your projects. 

  • Date: 15 January, 09:30 – 13:00, Location: London  

Climate Resilience: An Action Planning Learning Workshop for Organisations, Occupiers and Owners: get the tools you need to develop a high-level action plan for resilience for your organisation 

  • Date: 27 January, 09:30 – 13:00 Location: London 

Shape the Stakeholder Action Plans: Participate in workshops and roundtables to share your expertise and influence the development of Stakeholder Action Plans. Open to all individuals from UKGBC member organisations, all workshops, except the all stakeholders one that will take place in London, will be held online.  

  • Financial and Insurance Organisations – 28 October at 14:00 – 16:00 – Register here 
  • Product Manufacturers and Contractors – 5 November at 14:00 – 16:00 – Register here 
  • All Stakeholders – 25 November at 14:00 – 16:00 – Register here 

REGENERATIVE PLACES

Decarbonising the built environment is essential to tackling climate change—but the biggest impact comes when we take a holistic, ‘net positive’ approach that benefits health, communities, and ecosystems. Retrofitting 19 million poorly rated homes and addressing the housing crisis offer a unique opportunity to deliver wider regenerative benefits, yet current practice often falls short of holistic, resilient outcomes. 

The Regenerative Places programme brings together multiple stakeholders to co-develop a framework that embeds regenerative principles into place-based development. 

This year the programme will focus on: 

  • Co-creating a Regenerative Vision – Work with members and local partners to define a positive, regenerative future, illustrated with real-world examples. 
  • Regenerative Places Framework – Develop a practical framework that shows how principles, processes, and mindsets can scale regenerative outcomes to restore, renew, and revitalise people, places, and ecosystems. 
  • Collaborative, systems-led approach – Creating a Task Groups (a core member benefit) and interactive workshops that will help to shape the work, encourage collaboration with peers, and sharing of early insights.

Get Involved

Attend Regenerative Places Framework –Collaboration Cafes 

These workshop sessions will work alongside a dedicated project Task Group to inform the Framework. 

Learn & Grow

BUILD KNOWLEDGE

Kickstart your sustainability journey with bite-sized, jargon-free learning that builds confidence and foundations. 

Ideal for: Early-career professionals, those new to sustainability, or anyone seeking a foundational understanding of sustainability, resilience, and carbon reduction in the built environment. 

Benefits: Build confidence, understand key sustainability concepts quickly, and establish a solid foundation to inform your work. 

Get Involved

DELIVER ACTION

Move from learning to doing with immersive masterclasses and hands-on workshops that empower you to drive impact. 

Ideal for: Mid-level to senior professionals, sustainability champions, design/project teams, owners, and ESG practitioners ready to transform knowledge into action. 

Benefits: Gain in-demand technical skills, develop strategies you can implement immediately, and collaborate with peers to operationalise sustainable outcomes. 

Get Involved

Lead & Influence

Learning designed to spark transformational change. UKGBC’s leadership programmes equip built environment professionals at every career stage to take bold action, challenge the status quo, and drive the systemic change our industry needs. 

Get Involved

Future Leaders – Our flagship programme for rising stars with 5–10 years’ experience. Develop innovation and leadership skills, collaborate with peers across the sector, and build the confidence to tackle complex sustainability challenges. 

Runs January–June | Applications now open | full details here. 

Change Accelerator – Designed for mid to senior-level leaders (10–15 years’ experience). This intensive programme pushes sustainability professionals to think differently, develop breakthrough strategies, and drive transformation within their organisations. 

Runs September–November |  full details here. 

Recalibrate – An exclusive enrichment programme for C-Suite and Board members. Shape your leadership for a net zero, climate-resilient future and gain unique insights into leading systemic change at the highest level. 

Runs March–September | full details here. 

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AGM 2025 Results

UKGBC’s Annual General Meeting took place on 23 September at 150 Holborn in London, with strong member participation. All proposed resolutions were approved, including the election of new board members Miles Lewis, Eva MacNamara, and Jennifer Waterhouse, as well as the reappointment of Sunand Prasad OBE, Lorna Walker, Victoria Quinlan, Basil Demeroutis, and Judith Everett.
24 Sep, 2025
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