Built Environment

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Your latest built environment stories

AdesignStorie

Making sustainable space design the default choice

City of Edinburgh
  • Excessive consumption
  • Health & wellbeing
  • Waste
  • Built Environment
  • Circular Economy

Dream Green Guerilla Gardening

Helping people use plants to reclaim public spaces in cities- ‘guerrilla gardening’.

Hackney
  • Air pollution
  • Biodiversity loss
  • Health & wellbeing
  • Built Environment
  • Biodiversity & Nature
  • Land Use, Food & Agriculture

Highland Adapts: Regional Adaptation Partnership

Bringing Highland together to facilitate transformational action towards a climate-ready region.

Highland
  • Flooding & drought
  • Food security & supply
  • Health & wellbeing
  • Built Environment
  • Land Use, Food & Agriculture

Save Our Shropshire

Inspiring people to change their behaviour, to help tackle climate change.

Shropshire
  • Carbon emissions
  • Food security & supply
  • Health & wellbeing
  • Built Environment
  • Energy
  • Transport

Reading Zero Carbon Housing Developments

Ensuring big housing developments aim for zero carbon.

Reading
  • Carbon emissions
  • Built Environment

East Sussex Warm Homes Check

Tackling fuel poverty with warm homes support for owners and renters.

Hastings
  • Greater fairness
  • Built Environment
  • Energy

Think big locally

Why Built Environment?

Carbon emissions from the energy use in our buildings account for over one-fifth of the annual total in the UK. Being economical and efficient with our energy is one of the quickest actions we can take to turn things around. From the raw materials and energy consumed in construction, to changing people’s habits through better design of buildings, the opportunity is to reimagine our built environment and how we build it – so that more of our buildings help us conserve more of our resources. We shape our buildings, and then our buildings shape us.

Blue Green City Of The Future

The Living With Water partnership is working with the people of Hull to protect the city and wider area from flooding, putting resilience and community regeneration at the heart of everything they do.

All built environment initiatives

AdesignStorie

Making sustainable space design the default choice

City of Edinburgh
  • Excessive consumption
  • Health & wellbeing
  • Waste
  • Built Environment
  • Circular Economy

Dream Green Guerilla Gardening

Helping people use plants to reclaim public spaces in cities- ‘guerrilla gardening’.

Hackney
  • Air pollution
  • Biodiversity loss
  • Health & wellbeing
  • Built Environment
  • Biodiversity & Nature
  • Land Use, Food & Agriculture

Highland Adapts: Regional Adaptation Partnership

Bringing Highland together to facilitate transformational action towards a climate-ready region.

Highland
  • Flooding & drought
  • Food security & supply
  • Health & wellbeing
  • Built Environment
  • Land Use, Food & Agriculture

Save Our Shropshire

Inspiring people to change their behaviour, to help tackle climate change.

Shropshire
  • Carbon emissions
  • Food security & supply
  • Health & wellbeing
  • Built Environment
  • Energy
  • Transport

Reading Zero Carbon Housing Developments

Ensuring big housing developments aim for zero carbon.

Reading
  • Carbon emissions
  • Built Environment

East Sussex Warm Homes Check

Tackling fuel poverty with warm homes support for owners and renters.

Hastings
  • Greater fairness
  • Built Environment
  • Energy

GMCA Smart Energy Plan

Boosting jobs, improving housing and lowering emissions through an integrated Smart Energy Plan.

Bolton
  • Carbon emissions
  • Greater fairness
  • Built Environment
  • Energy

Targeted Climate Adaptation For The Most Vulnerable

Understanding where people are facing social deprivation and are most vulnerable to climate threats.

Dundee City
  • Greater fairness
  • Health & wellbeing
  • Built Environment
  • Energy

NE Derbyshire Energy Efficient Social Housing

Making council homes more energy efficient.

North East Derbyshire
  • Carbon emissions
  • Greater fairness
  • Health & wellbeing
  • Built Environment
  • Energy

Warmer Privately-Rented Properties

Improving energy efficiency standards for rented properties in Liverpool.

Liverpool
  • Carbon emissions
  • Greater fairness
  • Built Environment
  • Energy

Low Carbon Business Recovery Initiatives

Supporting businesses to be part of a growing low carbon economy.

South Lakeland
  • Carbon emissions
  • Built Environment
  • Energy

Carbon Neutral Greater Manchester Public Sector Estate

Providing GM's public sector with a decarbonisation plan and toolkit to target carbon neutral 2038.

Bolton
  • Air pollution
  • Carbon emissions
  • Tech & Innovation
  • Built Environment
  • Energy
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