Case Studies
Best practice, real-world examples of climate action and innovation in the built environment.
Featured case studies
The Entopia Building
Generating savings in whole life carbon emissions through tactical material reuse during refurbishment and the continued use of original building structures.
Automated Construction Project – The Forge, Bankside
On track to be the UK’s first net zero carbon commercial building to align with the UKGBC’s Framework Definition for construction and operation.
Hope Rise
An award-wining zero operational carbon development in Bristol.
The Enterprise Centre
A University building that achieved Passivhaus and BREEAM Outstanding certification, and continues to demonstrate high performance in-use through its DEC A rating.
Hope Rise
An award-wining zero operational carbon development in Bristol.
Kintyre
A Passivhaus, contemporary English cottage
Larkhall Park
The social value delivery approach of a residential development in Larkhall, London.
Yorkhill
The social value delivery approach for the mixed-use development plan for the closure of Yorkhill.
Department for Transport – Floodwater Management Grant
The social value delivery approach for a flood alleviation scheme in Clun, Southwest Shropshire.
Greening Swinton Square
The social value delivery approach for the Greening Swinton Square project which aims to demonstrate how nature-based solutions (NBS) can be an integral part of the design of town centres.
Langarth Garden Village
The social value delivery approach for development project in Langarth, Cornwall.
White Collar Factory
The social value delivery approach for a redevelopment of a major corner site on the Silicon Roundabout in the heart of London’s Tech City.
Brent Cross Town
The social value delivery approach of a new town centre development for the London Borough of Barnet.
FEASIBILITY STUDY: Riverbank School Retrofit
A feasibility study to assess the cost, carbon count and environmental performance of varying levels of renovation taking place on a school building.
Edinburgh One
A sustainable-redevelopment project in the centre of Edinburgh to create modern office space that’s low carbon.
The Entopia Building
Generating savings in whole life carbon emissions through tactical material reuse during refurbishment and the continued use of original building structures.
Why Case Studies?
This library of case studies serve as inspiration from the UKGBC Membership, demonstrating best case examples of the sustainable built environment. These examples represent a range of asset types, locations and building stages. Some are trail blazing in carbon emission reduction, others are leading in social value, some are forging new ground across all of our impact areas.
Please note, only UKGBC Members are profiled in our case study library.
Solutions and Innovation
UKGBC works to be at the forefront of solutions and innovation in the built environment, working with a range of stakeholders from across the built environment to forge connections and enact radical change.
Case Study Blogs
Circular development and net zero construction: a commercial office in the heart of Edinburgh
As part of our work to showcase innovative projects in Scotland, this week’s blog focuses on Edinburgh One, a development in the centre of the capital.
1 Sep, 2022
Net Zero Carbon, a huge retrofit and Salix funding: An Introduction to the Wolfson College Decarbonisation Process
Bill Watts, Senior Partner at Max Fordham, writes about the Net Zero Carbon and retrofitting case study at Wolfson College, Oxford.
1 Sep, 2021
Addressing fuel poverty with data-driven retrofits
IRT Survey’s CEO, Stuart Little, explains how they use technology to deliver retrofits to address poverty in Scotland.
22 Sep, 2022
