UKGBC announces Task Group and partners for Climate Resilience Roadmap

Industry-leading experts drawn from across the built environment value chain come together to develop the UK’s first shared pathway for adapting to our changing climate.

As the UK faces a potentially record-breaking season of frequent and severe extreme weather, the importance of adapting to the changing climate continues to surge into the most crucial priorities facing our built environment. Without a robust and common evidence-based pathway to a greater climate resilience, our industry faces more delays that our towns, cities, places and spaces simply cannot afford.

UKGBC’s Climate Resilience Roadmap seeks to establish the urgent priorities, industry wide-targets, and clear metrics that we need to adapt our built environment at speed and scale.

Following the project’s launch in October 2023, a wide range of cross-industry leaders have now joined the project to lend their voices and expertise to the common goal of catalysing more urgent, comprehensive, and cohesive action on climate resilience.

Our partners are drawn from across the built environment’s value chain, ranging from engineering, construction and architecture through to materials experts and academics. All will bring critical perspectives to the Project that will enable our conclusions to reach across the industry and transform the way we work together.

Hannah Giddings, Head of Climate Resilience at UKGBC said:

We are delighted to bring together brilliant and committed colleagues towards the common goal of a more resilient built environment. That our mission has united more than 40 experts from so many different disciplines reflects the reality that none of us can achieve this alone, while greater climate resilience will transform lives and businesses across the UK. I’m grateful to all partners and excited by what we will achieve together.“

Partners have joined the Climate Resilience Roadmap as members of a Steering Group or a Task Group. The Steering Group is a smaller, strategic team of 20+ partners who will focus on the project’s strategic questions, objectives, and recommendations. The Task Group of 25+ partners will be a forward-looking forum that may focus on particular themes, ‘chapters’ or key questions that comprise the entire Roadmap. The two Groups will work closely with one another and will drive towards the same common goal of a powerful, coherent, action-oriented Climate Resilience Roadmap for the built environment.

While the Groups will lead development of the Roadmap, they will also welcome additional consultation from the wider industry and beyond throughout the process. More information on methodology will be published in due course, including how the Climate Resilience Roadmap process will build upon the approaches used to develop UKGBC’s Net Zero Whole Life Carbon Roadmap, which was published at COP26.

The following individuals have joined the Steering Group:

Alister Langdon, JLL
Amanda Skeldon, JLL
Andy Sheppard, Arup
Anna Oxenham, Mace
Ashley Bateson, Hoare Lea
Bernadette Middleton, Zurich Resilience Solutions
Charles Carpenter, Hydrock
Chris Hills, Hydrock
Chris Moss, Greenage
Christine Cambrook, Buro Happold
Duncan Price, Buro Happold
Eleanor Aslett, Equans
Fergus Anderson, Hydrock
Fraser Smith, Hydrock
James Low, Mace
Jacob Withington, Equans
Johann Hattingh, Ridge
Kartikeya Rajput, PRP Architects
Nadia Mofidi, Hydrock
Owen Boswell, Hoare Lea
Rebecca Lydon, Hydrock
Rob Winch, Hoare Lea
Sally Hadley, Mace
Sophie Williams, JLL

The following individuals have joined the Task Group:

Asif Din, Perkins&Will
Becca Savvides, Cushman and Wakefield
Becky Lane, Furbnow
Cara Labuschagne, Waterman Group
Catriona McCulloch, Peabody
Elaine Toogood, Mineral Products Association
Eleni Souti, Aecom
Elisabeth Marlow, Cundall
Elliot Wellbelove, Hanson / Heidelberg Materials
Emma Boucher, CBRE
Fernanda Amemiya, Landsec
Frank Blande, GPE
Jennifer Gadher, Ramboll
Joe Ford, BRE Group
Katerina Papavasileiou, Federated Hermes
Keer Li, Cadiff University
Louise Claeys, London Borough of Hackney
Lydia Marshall, Groundwork
Margarita Murillo Benitez, Ramboll
Monica Mateo-Garcia, Birmingham City University
Nuno Correia, Wilkinson Eyre
Paul Bowtell, Retirement Villages Ltd
Rachel Capon, Mineral Products Association
Sarah Luff, WSP
Simon Adcock, Deloitte
Yingli Wang, Cardiff University

Climate Resilience Roadmap

As climate change impacts continue to occur, the built environment must prepare for hazards such as heatwaves, floods, and storms whilst cutting carbon emissions. To start, we first need to understand how to measure our resilience, establish industry-wide targets and pinpoint essential actions and policies to achieve them.

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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