Indoor-outdoor living supports physical and mental wellbeing by connecting residents with nature and fresh air. Wellness architecture and biophilic design, with spaces carefully planned to be in tune with nature and yet resilient to climate impacts, are essential components of the VISION House Asheville.
Just halfway through 2026 and even before peak wildfire season in many locations, more than 3.5 million acres have burned across the U.S. The danger of wildfires extends far beyond the burn zone: smoke and pollutants from wildfires can drift thousands of miles across continents and oceans and affect indoor air quality.
Even if wildfire smoke isn’t a danger in your area, managing your indoor air quality is an essential component of a healthy home.
Why Quality Steel Reinforcement Matters for Long-Lasting, Sustainable Concrete Construction Concrete is renowned for its strength but it cannot perform at its best on its own. That’s why, depending on the structure, it often needs help from steel reinforcement. Reinforcement […]
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Delivering a more sustainable built environment requires more than innovative ideas – it requires proven solutions to be adopted and scaled at pace. Through our Solutions & Innovation workstream, UKGBC is identifying high-impact sustainability solutions, understanding the barriers to their adoption, and working with industry to accelerate their deployment across the built environment. By bringing together innovators, adopters and industry leaders, we aim to create the conditions for widespread implementation and market transformation.
UKGBC’s Solutions & Innovation workstream seeks to:
– Increase the adoption of solutions that help address the industry’s most pressing environmental and social challenges.
– Showcase best practice case studies and viable sustainability solutions.
– Raise the profile of, and help scale, innovative start-ups and solutions.
– Support a culture of open innovation and collaboration around innovation.
This year, the workstream enters the second year of the Scaling Sustainable Solutions for the Built Environment initiative, building on the launch of the Barriers and Enablers report. Over the coming year, UKGBC will work with industry to test how the identified enablers can be applied in real-world contexts, develop practical pathways to move solutions from pilots to mainstream adoption, support collaboration across the value chain, and share insights and learning to accelerate progress across the sector.
To support this work, we have convened a new Solutions & Innovation Advisory Group. Drawing on expertise from across the built environment value chain, the group will help shape the workstream’s priorities, provide strategic insight, and champion the adoption and scaling of sustainable solutions across the sector by:
– Acting as an ‘innovation champion’ within their organisation, identifying innovation challenges, priority areas, and adoption opportunities.
– Providing market insight to UKGBC members engaging in sustainable innovation for the built environment.
– Acting as a sounding board for UKGBC’s Solutions & Innovation activities.
| Name | Title | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
| Phanos Hadjikyriakou | Co-Founder & CEO | 2050 Materials Ltd |
| Elliot Marsden | UKIMEA Region Ventures Lead | Arup |
| Ian Fuller | Director | BL3 Consulting Ltd |
| Samuel Crowley | Research Consultant | BRE |
| James Warne | Building Environments Director | Buro Happold Engineering |
| Gilles Alvarenga | Sustainability Associate | Cundall |
| Megan Greig | Associate | Elliott Wood Partnership |
| Ankita Dwivedi | CEO & Founder | Firstplanit |
| Matt Bonney | Project Architect & Sustainability Lead | GCP Chartered Architects |
| Stabrag Fadil | Sustainability Consultant | Hilson Moran |
| Sarah Allaoui | Senior Associate | Hoare Lea |
| Bahareh Salehi | Associate | Hoare Lea |
| Gillian Brown | Senior Manager – Sustainable Design | Lloyds Banking Group |
| Harshita Mathur | Sustainability Designer and Researcher | Make Architects |
| Giulia Jones | Associate Director – ESG Projects | MAPP |
| Aleksandra Przydrozna | Business Unit Director, ESG & Sustainability | Meinhardt |
| Monica Donaldson-Balan | Senior Associate Building Physics Engineer | Mott MacDonald |
| Catriona Hyland | Investor | NOA |
| Steven Zijlstra | Product Marketing Manager | One Click LCA |
| Sam Szczurek | Innovation Lead | Places for London |
| Emily Scoones | Head of Digital and Innovation (Buildings) | Ramboll |
| Eliot Powell | Senior Consultant, Sustainable Solutions, Buildings Advisory & Consultancy | Ramboll |
| Louise Donegan | Director of Strategic Engagement | REACH UK |
| Ishita Pandey | Sustainability Consultant | Ruane Construction Design & Consultancy |
| Shruti Ganesh | Sustainability Consultant | Sweco |
| Peter Runacres | Head of Urban Futures | The Earls Court Development Company |
| Richard Wilson | Associate Director | Turner & Townsend alinea |
| Juliana Calabria-Holley | Senior Lecturer | University of Bath |
| Tim Forman | Associate Teaching Professor | Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership |
| Francesco Pomponi | Professor (Chair in Sustainability & Environment) | University of York |
| Paloma Hermoso | Head of Sustainability | Ward Williams Associates |
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They call it the “Queen of Zero.” Completed in November 2024, this Hyattsville, Md., home represents a story rebirth: a Phoenix of a house rising from the ashes to become a one-of-a-kind Queen Anne Victorian aligned with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Zero Energy Ready Home (ZERH) standard.
What Is a Residential Renovation? A residential renovation is the process of improving, updating or restoring an existing home, its interior, exterior or building systems, without demolishing the original structure. Renovations range from cosmetic refreshes such as painting and flooring […]
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How Thermal Cameras Detect Heat Loss, Air Leaks and Building Problems In this weekly Q&A column, retired builder/building inspector Cam Allen answers readers’ home renovation questions. Have a question? Enter it in the form below. Thermal imaging technology is one […]
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How Much Does it Cost to Install AC in Canada? KEY TAKEAWAYS Air conditioning (AC) is one of the most effective ways to keep your home cool during Canada’s increasingly warm summers. But you may well ask, “How much can […]
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