The Regenerative Places Framework Task Group will explore this crucially important challenge, building the compelling case to industry and policy makers for the benefits of place-based regenerative approaches, and examining the pathways, approaches, and shifts in practice needed to achieve more regenerative outcomes on projects.

The Task Group will consider how regenerative approaches can be applied to the retrofit of existing homes and communities at scale, and additional housing that meets local community needs and aspirations. Informed by UKGBC’s Regenerative Places programme, including the Local Authority Retrofit Accelerator pilot projects delivered by The MCS Foundation, this project aims to develop guidance for industry and policy makers on how to embed regenerative approaches into projects from the earliest design stages, delivering tangible social, environmental and long-term economic value. With nearly 19 million poorly rated homes and interconnected housing and climate challenges, there’s a pressing need for transformative action.

Task Group Purpose

The Task Group will contribute significantly to the project’s core content. It will ensure that the guidance builds on existing industry knowledge and initiatives and that the output is of a quality and form that is practicable to the intended industry professionals. We will therefore be seeking a level of knowledge and understanding of existing/emerging related industry initiatives.

To address the wide range of local benefits to regenerative approaches, and in line with this project’s systems-led and place-based approach, we are keen to involve representatives from non-member organisations that are part of wider stakeholder ecosystems. These include, but are not limited to:

• National community organisations / networks (including community energy, community land trusts, housing and tenant associations, and social justice advocates)
• National wildlife and environmental organisations / networks
• Training and skills providers
• Public health bodies
• Energy generation and supply organisations

Applications for the Task Group close on Monday 22nd September 2025.

Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥ committed to actively targeting a diverse representation in the composition of all project groups. We want to be inclusive to everyone regardless of ethnicity, religious beliefs, gender, marital status, age, disability, sexual orientation, or political beliefs and encourage our members to support our desire. While applicants will be chosen based on their experience, we encourage consideration of the above when putting forward individuals to apply.

If you would like to participate but cannot follow the standard application process for any reason, please reach out via policy@ukgbc.org.

We are also still looking for additional funding partners. Please see further details here and get in touch if you would like to find out more.

Regenerative Places Programme Partners

Regenerative Places Programme

Our programme utilises a place-based retrofit strategy to enhance local network capacity, strengthen resilience against future climate-related challenges, and deliver broad regenerative benefits to communities.

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The Membership Advisory Group (MAG) brings together a diverse mix of UKGBC members to help shape the future of our network. This is your opportunity to share insights, spark ideas, and influence how we grow and support our community.

In the Membership Advisory Group you will:

• Represent the voice of the wider membership.
• Contribute to the evolution of our membership structure, fees, and benefits.
• Collaborate early in the development of new ideas and initiatives.
• Support UKGBC’s mission to drive industry transformation and deliver impact.

Whilst the Membership Advisory Group (MAG) is an advisory group with no formal governance role, its influence is significant. Your input will help guide UKGBC’s strategic direction and ensure we continue to meet our charitable objectives.

This isn’t just a sounding board, it’s a space for forward-thinking, proactive members who want to make a difference.

Ready to get involved? Join us in shaping a stronger, more impactful UKGBC.

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Over the last 6 months, the Advancing Net Zero team at UKGBC have been meeting with our members to gather perspectives from all areas of the supply chain and help to pinpoint the topics where UKGBC can drive change and impact.  

Task group applicants should be able to demonstrate relevant experience and knowledge in the anticipated topics areas: Procurement, Supplier engagement, SME engagement, or Supply chain management.  

Task Group applications ended on 7 November 2024.

Applicants will be chosen based on their experience, whilst seeking to ensure a diversity of individuals within the Task Group. Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥ committed to actively targeting a diverse representation in the composition of all project groups. We want to be inclusive to everyone regardless of ethnicity, religious beliefs, gender, marital status, age, disability, sexual orientation, or political beliefs.   

If you have any questions about the Supply Chain Decarbonisation Workstream and how to get involved, please contact:

Alex Benstead Senior Partnerships and Programmes Manager

Email Alex

Advancing Net Zero

Created in 2018 as part of a World Green Building Council former global Advancing Net Zero programme, UKGBC’s Advancing Net Zero programme has a mission to lead the UK’s transition to a net zero built environment. It has produced leading guidance such as the Net Zero Carbon Buildings Framework and the Net Zero Whole Life Carbon Roadmap, whilst working with organisations and experts across the industry.

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Industry is now gearing up for the first release of the UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard, which will provide a set of criteria and performance requirements for a net zero building, along with a robust approach to verifying that those requirements are met. The Standard is a collaborative initiative between UKGBC and 11 other organisations active in the UK built environment, supported by over 300 sector experts.  

In light of the forthcoming Standard, UKGBC intends to evolve the Framework Definition to ensure it continues to provide valuable guidance to those in industry seeking to design, deliver, or operate a net zero carbon building in the UK. 

Applications for the Task Group close on Friday 13th September 2024. 

Applicants will be chosen based on their experience, whilst seeking to ensure a diversity of individuals within the Task Group. Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥ committed to actively targeting a diverse representation in the composition of all project groups. We want to be inclusive to everyone regardless of ethnicity, religious beliefs, gender, marital status, age, disability, sexual orientation, or political beliefs.   

Advancing Net Zero

Created in 2018 as part of a World Green Building Council former global Advancing Net Zero programme, UKGBC’s Advancing Net Zero programme has a mission to lead the UK’s transition to a net zero built environment. It has produced leading guidance such as the Net Zero Carbon Buildings Framework and the Net Zero Whole Life Carbon Roadmap, whilst working with organisations and experts across the industry.

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General elections and new governments are moments when the political and policy kaleidoscope is shaken and major ideas have a chance to break through. But this will take a concerted coordinated campaign to shape the conversation, bring people together around a common-sense agenda and raise the profile of our mission. 

The project aims to: 

• Champion key policies: UKGBC has been working intensively with members for the past period to bring oven-ready policy proposals to the major political parties, the government and department officials. This will step up over the general election period and beyond with roundtables, bilateral meetings, receptions and events.Ìý
• Build strong relationships with decision-makers and influencers: UKGBC has been developing relationships with key policy makers, political and policy advisors and some of the most influential back bench MPs and Peers on our agenda. This has already stepped up with a parliamentary lunch in March for a core group of influential parliamentarians.Ìý
• Raise the voice of the industry: We are getting general election press room ready. Let us know if you would like to join a pool of expert spokes people or champions during the campaign on influential platforms, in the media and across social media.Ìý

Task Force purpose: 

The Task Force will help shape and deliver key aspects of the general election campaign including setting the agenda to respond to announcements, engaging with key policymakers, engaging champions. They will ensure that the campaign raises the voice of progressive voice of our sector to have real impact during this general election period. 

Please email policy@ukgbc.org to apply or find out more.  

Applications for the Task force are being sought from within the UKGBC membership and close on Thursday 23^rd May.ÌýÌý

Applicants will be chosen based on their experience, whilst seeking to ensure a diversity of individuals within the Task Group. Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥ committed to actively targeting a diverse representation in the composition of all project groups. We want to be inclusive to everyone regardless of ethnicity, religious beliefs, gender, marital status, age, disability, sexual orientation, or political beliefs.  

Policy & Advocacy

UKGBC works with our members and with policymakers at all levels across the UK to advocate for a built environment that meets the challenges of the climate and ecological crises

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Upgrading Britain’s Homes coalition

For a step-change in national home retrofit investment.

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This project will create a framework definition on the applicability of this terminology for the built environment specifically, with a set of criteria to be required. Similar to UKGBC’s Net Zero Carbon Framework Definition, this would ensure that projects and companies stick to a high standard when using this terminology. The project will clarify to what degree buildings, project, or companies can be described as nature-positive, and under which circumstances. 

This project aims to ensure that the concept of nature positivity translates into the built environment in a meaningful way. It does that by: 

• Providing rigour and accountability for nature positivity via a stringent and shared set of criteria for the industry  
• Creating a mutual understanding of the principles behind nature positivity and enable the industry to identify and challenge greenwashing  
• Developing a clear understanding of the challenges behind the goal of a nature-positive built environment and providing best practice examples 

Joining the Task Group

Bring your unique expertise and knowledge and your subsector perspective to define the framework while you collaborate with peers.

UKGBC will be convening an industry Task Group to lead the development of this publication, in line with the above aims. Key goals of the group are to ensure we build on existing industry knowledge, initiatives, and real-life project experiences, and that the guidance is relevant to industry.ÌýÌý

An overview of the expected programme of works is as shown below. The Task Group will commence in June and will work towards a draft guidance for industry consultation in March 2025. It will consequently review the consultation results and support the development of final guidance through to publication in Summer 2025.ÌýÌý

Download the Call for Applications

This project is also taking applications for Project Partners, learn more and apply here.

Nature

Nature is in crisis.Ìý The built environment has a critical role to play in protecting and restoring nature and moving to a regenerative model of development.

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The Solutions & Innovation Advisory Group is a network of ambitious individuals responsible for supporting UKGBC and innovators within our membership with technical advice and market insight, whilst providing innovation advocacy within their own organisations.

Solutions and Innovation

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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This is why Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥ building on the soon-to-be-published Commercial Retrofit (offices) project, kicking off a project to cover further non-domestic building types. This next phase of the workstream will focus on retail and warehouse buildings and aims to explore the cost, potential operational energy efficiency, and the consequent embodied carbon impact of different retrofit measures. This is intended to inform planned upgrades to existing assets and help overcome common challenges to maximise compliance with future Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES) and to meet the likely ambition behind emerging net zero carbon performance targets. 

The project aims to: 

• Develop a suite of evidence that explores and provides the cost, operational energy efficiency potential, and embodied carbon impact (as well as any co-benefits) associated with common retrofit measures for different types of properties in the retail and logistics sectors 
• Focus on one or more building typologies in the retail and logistics sectors to explore the variety of different challenges faced by stakeholders looking to decarbonise their or their clients’ assets. 
• Collate real-world examples of retrofit measures (light, deep, optimisation-focused), to illustrate and compare the true impact of different retrofit solutions, showcasing effective outcomes alongside lessons learnt. 

Task Group Purpose: 

The Task Group will contribute significantly to the project’s core content. They will ensure that the guidance builds on existing industry knowledge and initiatives and that the output is of a quality and form that is practicable to the intended industry professionals. Applications for the Task Group are being sought from within the UKGBC membership and we are looking for individuals with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in retrofitting commercial assets. 

Please see the document below to apply and send completed applications to anz@ukgbc.org.  

Applications for the Task Group close on Friday 8th March 2024.

Applicants will be chosen based on their experience, whilst seeking to ensure a diversity of individuals within the Task Group. Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥ committed to actively targeting a diverse representation in the composition of all project groups. We want to be inclusive to everyone regardless of ethnicity, religious beliefs, gender, marital status, age, disability, sexual orientation, or political beliefs. 

Advancing Net Zero

Created in 2018 as part of a World Green Building Council former global Advancing Net Zero programme, UKGBC’s Advancing Net Zero programme has a mission to lead the UK’s transition to a net zero built environment. It has produced leading guidance such as the Net Zero Carbon Buildings Framework and the Net Zero Whole Life Carbon Roadmap, whilst working with organisations and experts across the industry.

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Following on from UKGBC’s previous work around climate resilience and adaptation, we aim to work with the built environment industry to co-create a sector roadmap for climate resilience in the built environment. By developing science-driven, industry-wide targets to be achieved in the short, medium and longer term, this project could help to fill the urgent and critical gap identified by the CCC – investing in and optimising our built environment for a climate resilient future. This project will follow a similar path of UKGBC’s Whole Life Carbon Roadmap project which provided both the industry and government a common vision and agreed actions for achieving net zero carbon in the built environment.

The project aims to:

• Define a climate resilient UK built environment;
• Set science-based targets and measurable metrics for climate resilience;
• Measure the baseline climate resilience of the UK built environment;
• Identify the social, economic, political and technical obstacles of climate adaptation;
• Identify the key actions for built environment stakeholders to ramp up adaptation action; and
• Identify key resilience and adaptation policies for national and local governments.

Task Group Purpose

The Task Group will contribute significantly to the project’s core content. They will ensure that the guidance builds on existing industry knowledge and initiatives and that the output is of a quality and form that is practicable to the intended industry professionals. We will therefore be seeking a level of knowledge and understanding of existing / emerging related industry initiatives and policies within the Task Groups, for Climate Resilience Roadmap for the UK Built Environment example, TCFD recommendations, the CCC’s third Climate Change Risk Assessment, the third National Adaptation Programme (NAP3).

By becoming a Task Group, your organisation will:

• be credited with facilitating progress of the project, and positive impact in the built environment
• take an assisting role in helping to shape the project and associated outputs, as well as how those
  outputs are conveyed to industry to maximise impact and uptake
• receive brand recognition on final project-related outputs
• receive bespoke social media assets to help promote your organisation’s support of the project
• be able to collaborate with other industry leaders and build your organisation’s network.

UK Climate Resilience Roadmap

This Roadmap sets out a vision for a climate resilient built environment, sharing clear recommendations for the industry and policy, and next steps needed to increase the climate resilience of our built environment.

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