Trends in Sustainable Solutions 2025

This report summarises a range of solution trends that UKGBC has seen over the course of 2025, also providing context on their use and driving forces in the UK market.

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UKGBC’s annual Trends Report highlights and explores a range of themes, topics and solutions that have been prevalent throughout 2025. It covers overarching topics from AI and the importance of place, through to material innovation and financial products. The analysis is based on engagement with innovation-focused UKGBC members (including input from UKGBC’s Solutions & Innovation Advisory Group), interviews with UKGBC topic leads, desktop research and reviews by topic experts across industry.

The insights in this report act as a temperature check on the theme of sustainability in the built environment, and capture a collective pivot – from planning to implementation, from values to value, and from sustainability to resilience and regeneration.

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This report is intended as a signpost for industry to key developments and reflect what UKGBC is hearing from industry and in research by others. While this is a summary of some of the notable trends, solutions and examples of which UKGBC has become aware, there are likely to be others that are not mentioned. UKGBC does not formally endorse any of the individual solutions listed.

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At UKGBC we take a collaborative approach to identify sustainability challenges across the built environment and help source and implement the solutions to them.

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