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Led by UKGBC, industry, and community partners, the Framework outlines how a shift in perspective at the outset of the design process could create better outcomes for local economies and communities, while also improving climate resilience and restoring nature. By asking how value is created and defined, the framework sets out a regenerative vision for housing and urges professionals to embed a collaborative approach – from the earliest stages on a project to beyond handover – inviting them to create change through supporting a ‘charter for implementing regenerative places’. Building…

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The Whole Life Carbon (WLC) Framework aims to support low-carbon decision-making across a building’s life cycle, while also helping to guide projects toward net-zero aligned outcomes.  The free resource outlines practical approaches and options to minimising whole life carbon- the sum of all greenhouse gas emissions associated with a building, from material extraction and construction, through its use, to demolition and disposal – from early design through to operation and end-of-life.  It also promotes clearer accountability, improved whole life carbon assessment and disclosure across projects and portfolios. Building on the Net Zero Carbon Framework Definition, which was launched by UKGBC in 2019, the updated WLC…

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UKGBC has launched the Framework for a Nature Positive Built Environment, providing the sector long-needed clarity on how to translate the global ambition to halt and reverse nature loss into practical, scalable action. The launch comes at a moment of escalating urgency. The UK Government’s National Security Assessment has identified biodiversity loss and ecosystem breakdown as a national security risk, with implications for economic stability, supply chains, food security and community resilience. Against this backdrop, the role of the built environment in protecting and restoring nature is one of the…

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The UK’s most vulnerable places to overheating, flooding, and other climate risks are revealed in our major new report, the UK Climate Resilience Roadmap, which was launched on June 26th, 2025. It warns that climate change means some school can expect ‘heatwave’ like temperatures for 10 weeks a year, while flooding could make Peterborough uninhabitable this century. The UK Climate Resilience Roadmap details, for the first time, how the UK’s built environment, including homes, schools, offices, hospitals parks and infrastructure, are increasingly vulnerable to five climate hazards – overheating, flooding,…

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‘Scaling Sustainable Solutions for the Built Environment’ is seeking to build on UKGBC’s existing work on solutions an innovation to accelerate the uptake of sustainable solutions in the built environment. Many solutions currently struggle with issues of “pilotisation” in the built environment, where they go through many trials, but struggle to scale across assets, projects and portfolios. In other words, they fall victim to the infamous “valley of death” (the gap between R&D and widespread deployment).   Backed by a growing network of partners and informed by UKGBC’s engagement with industry,…

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