UKGBC announces new Solutions & Innovation Advisory Group to drive innovation adoption

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

Delivering a more sustainable built environment requires more than innovative ideas – it requires proven solutions to be adopted and scaled at pace. Through our Solutions & Innovation workstream, UKGBC is identifying high-impact sustainability solutions, understanding the barriers to their adoption, and working with industry to accelerate their deployment across the built environment. By bringing together innovators, adopters and industry leaders, we aim to create the conditions for widespread implementation and market transformation.

UKGBC’s Solutions & Innovation workstream seeks to:

– Increase the adoption of solutions that help address the industry’s most pressing environmental and social challenges.

– Showcase best practice case studies and viable sustainability solutions.

– Raise the profile of, and help scale, innovative start-ups and solutions.

– Support a culture of open innovation and collaboration around innovation.

This year, the workstream enters the second year of the Scaling Sustainable Solutions for the Built Environment initiative, building on the launch of the Barriers and Enablers report. Over the coming year, UKGBC will work with industry to test how the identified enablers can be applied in real-world contexts, develop practical pathways to move solutions from pilots to mainstream adoption, support collaboration across the value chain, and share insights and learning to accelerate progress across the sector.

To support this work, we have convened a new Solutions & Innovation Advisory Group. Drawing on expertise from across the built environment value chain, the group will help shape the workstream’s priorities, provide strategic insight, and champion the adoption and scaling of sustainable solutions across the sector by:

– Acting as an ‘innovation champion’ within their organisation, identifying innovation challenges, priority areas, and adoption opportunities.
– Providing market insight to UKGBC members engaging in sustainable innovation for the built environment.
– Acting as a sounding board for UKGBC’s Solutions & Innovation activities.

Meet the group here:

NameTitleOrganisation
Phanos HadjikyriakouCo-Founder & CEO2050 Materials Ltd
Elliot MarsdenUKIMEA Region Ventures LeadArup
Ian FullerDirectorBL3 Consulting Ltd
Samuel CrowleyResearch ConsultantBRE
James WarneBuilding Environments DirectorBuro Happold Engineering
Gilles AlvarengaSustainability AssociateCundall
Megan GreigAssociateElliott Wood Partnership
Ankita DwivediCEO & FounderFirstplanit
Matt BonneyProject Architect & Sustainability LeadGCP Chartered Architects
Stabrag FadilSustainability ConsultantHilson Moran
Sarah AllaouiSenior AssociateHoare Lea
Bahareh SalehiAssociateHoare Lea
Gillian BrownSenior Manager – Sustainable DesignLloyds Banking Group
Harshita MathurSustainability Designer and ResearcherMake Architects
Giulia JonesAssociate Director – ESG ProjectsMAPP
Aleksandra PrzydroznaBusiness Unit Director, ESG & SustainabilityMeinhardt
Monica Donaldson-BalanSenior Associate Building Physics EngineerMott MacDonald
Catriona HylandInvestorNOA
Steven ZijlstraProduct Marketing ManagerOne Click LCA
Sam SzczurekInnovation LeadPlaces for London
Emily ScoonesHead of Digital and Innovation (Buildings)Ramboll
Eliot PowellSenior Consultant, Sustainable Solutions, Buildings Advisory & ConsultancyRamboll
Louise DoneganDirector of Strategic EngagementREACH UK
Ishita PandeySustainability ConsultantRuane Construction Design & Consultancy
Shruti GaneshSustainability ConsultantSweco
Peter RunacresHead of Urban FuturesThe Earls Court Development Company
Richard WilsonAssociate DirectorTurner & Townsend alinea
Juliana Calabria-HolleySenior LecturerUniversity of Bath
Tim FormanAssociate Teaching ProfessorCambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership
Francesco PomponiProfessor (Chair in Sustainability & Environment)University of York
Paloma HermosoHead of SustainabilityWard Williams Associates

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