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.
20 Water Street
JLL’s office fit out with an emphasis on applying circular economy principles whilst achieving good energy performance standards, and promoting wellbeing.
IMP Thrapston Business Park
Pastoral and wetland habitat restoration integrated with a storage and distribution centre
Visual Impact Provision (VIP) – Peak District East
Rerouting of National Grid transmission lines to improve biodiversity and reduce visual impact.
Brighouse Flood Alleviation Scheme
Landscape-based flood attenuation using natural solutions in place of hard engineering.
Duxford Old River Floodplain Restoration Project & Habitat Bank
Floodplain restoration in the Upper Thames Conservation Target Area.
Halifax Bus Station
An environmentally-focused redevelopment incorporating a green roof and renewable energy generation.
Mayfield
A sustainable restoration of a section of the River Medlock which improved local climate resilience and biodiversity.
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.
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
