UK Green Building Council (UKGBC)

💙 Don't let the holiday blues catch you! Continue improving and developing your sustainability skills and nature awareness this autumn. UKGBC have some great learning opportunities ad part of our Nature Learning Programme. 🍂 September in London is the best month to take a walking tour and explore nature in the city, discovering common urban habitats and the plant life that thrive there. We're running two exclusive sessions of this tour on September 11th, and places are limited, so make sure to grab your ticket fast! ➡ Join the tour: https://lnkd.in/dq-Yh9Ue 🏙 If you are form Manchester or its surroundings, join our Biodiversity Net Gain Masterclass on September 17th. This masterclass is the perfect opportunity to deepen your knowledge of BNG legislation and policies. Join us here: https://lnkd.in/eB4_Z58z 🌄 After the positive feedback we received from our last Biophilic Buildings masterclass, we're running another session on September 26th. Join us to spend time outdoors getting inspired by nature helping you increase biodiversity within your projects. ➡ Secure your spot and benefit from the early bird discount: https://lnkd.in/d7HDAw4X

📣 UKGBC announces new organizational partners who will accelerate action across our programmes. Buro Happold, Hoare Lea and Lloyds Banking Group have been leading Keystone members for many years, bringing a wealth of knowledge to teams across our organisation. Notably, they’ll be providing expertise and resources to key UKGBC programmes including: 🌍 Advancing Net Zero 🌿 Resilience & Nature 📖 Learning & Leadership 🏘️ Regenerative Places This is an exciting new step for UKGBC, helping us to mobilise industry following the General Election as we drive change in this crucial decade. 📚 Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/e4vamEWz

📄 Discover UKGBC's new set of practical Bitesizes! Bitesize Guides are an essential part of our learning resources, designed to help you understand specific concepts and expand your sustainability knowledge. This new release covers a diverse range of topics from reducing embodied carbon to tackling the performance gap. 🖱 Learn more about the new set of bitesizes here: https://lnkd.in/ezyzXR68

📣 At our AGM yesterday UKGBC members appointed Judith Everett, from The Crown Estate as our Chair of Trustees. Judith, who has been a UKGBC trustee since 2019 and recently served as deputy, is responsible for ensuring The Crown Estate meets its sustainability commitments with a particular focus around net zero, nature recovery and biodiversity. She succeeds Sunand Prasad who steps down after four years as Chair, but remains a trustee to continue to support UKGBC and our mission. The meeting also saw Estelle Bailey, Chief Executive of the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust (BBOWT), returned to the board, while Sam Ewuosho FRSA, Director at The Next Lighthouse and Clifford Ellis, Associate at BGO were appointed as ‘exceptional new members’. 📚 Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/dD8gc2FX

✨ What did UKGBC achieve last year? Each year we launch an impact report that details what we've been up to over the past year and how our radical collaborations between business, government and non-profits have driven transformational change. Following Smith Mordak's first year as Chief Executive, the report demonstrates how we're doing against the goals in our 2025 strategy and offers an outlook to the year ahead. Today at our AGM we also welcome Judith Everett of The Crown Estate as our new Chair of Trustees. 📚 Learn more about a year in the life of UKGBC below or on the website here: https://lnkd.in/emaDqVB2

💭 Do you want to have a say in shaping the future of a climate-resilient built environment? UKGBC is co-creating a UK Climate Resilience Roadmap for the UK built environment – including a vision to aim for and the practical steps we must all take to get there. Be part of shaping this vision by responding to our consultation and giving us feedback on our current proposals. 📝 Respond before the 7th August here: https://lnkd.in/gC_Z5Bsi #ClimateResilienceRoadmap

Welcome to the UKGBC's Top Five, our monthly round up that brings you the latest highlights from across the built environment. In this July edition, we explore our latest learning opportunity ' So what can I do? Video guides to sustainability and our latest policy event ' New government - what to expect?' with our team of experts sharing their insights. Don't miss out on ' Change Accelerator' our leadership programme to kickstart this September. Read and subscribe via the link below 👇 📰 For a more in-depth look at UKGBC's work, please sign up to our monthly email newsletter here: https://lnkd.in/dFknKHpZ

🤔 So what can I do? 🎉 Discover UKGBC's latest learning opportunity! Our new six part video series, created in collaboration with CBRE and UKGBC members, are now exclusively available for members of the UKGBC network. The series delivered by our team of experts and our members, explains core sustainability concepts and covers topics from carbon mitigation and adaptation to resource use and circular economy. 📰 Learn more about the new video guides: https://lnkd.in/eWJ9N4d7 👏 We would like to thank Callum Demicoli from Evercontent for the fantastic job during the filming, production and editing stages.

📣 UKGBC responds to the King's Speech. ✅ This feels like a seismic shift that will help us transform our built environment - putting people and planet first. 💡 The government will have the opportunity to wed the planning system to both the Climate Change and Environmental Acts so every planning decision pulls us in the right direction. Read Smith Mordak's full response: https://lnkd.in/eb_m_9jQ Learn more about UKGBC's views on planning policy: https://lnkd.in/eVnQ4PxK

🌿 Meet the industry experts collaborating to create a Nature-Positive Framework for the built environment. To help build certainty and drive nature restoration in our built environment, UKGBC is working to create a Nature-Positive framework definition, today announcing a team of industry experts who will be contributing to the project. These experts come from across industry and our membership and include: Aaron Grainger Buro Happold Amanda Skeldon JLL Annabelle Richards Lloyds Banking Group Ara Nik AESG Benjamin Gardner Heyne Tillett Steel Brogan MacDonald Ramboll Catherine McGuire Sintali  Clare F. Lloyds Banking Group  Daniel Petts Hoare Lea Hannah Thorpe Incendium Consulting Ltd Hayley Newman MAPP Jessica Kettlewell Ridge and Partners LLP Jonny Miller WSP Dr Kan-chane G. BDP (Building Design Partnership Ltd) Kate Swan Mott MacDonald Kate Townend AtkinsRéalis Katie M Smart Hoare Lea Elizabeth Greenhill Currie & Brown  Lize Festers Incendium Consulting Ltd Lottie Macnair Useful Simple Trust  Matt Wisdom Laing O'Rourke Morgan Taylor Greengage Environmental Peter Walker CBRE Investment Management Rob Winch Hoare Lea Robert Nussey Ramboll Roger Macklin Hoare Lea Rupi Chawlia AECOM Sarah Gillhespy Arup 📚 Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/ecbd3rRq With thanks to our Resilience and Nature Programme Partners, Buro Happold, Hoare Lea and JLL, and our Project Partner Mott McDonald for making this work possible. #NaturePositive