Built Environment

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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

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

Springfield Meadows

Building an exemplar project of 25 climate-positive homes.

Vale of White Horse
  • Biodiversity loss
  • Carbon emissions
  • Tech & Innovation
  • Built Environment
  • Biodiversity & Nature
  • Energy

Rushcliffe Oaks Crematorium

Providing an environmentally friendly, contemporary space to remember loved ones and celebrate life.

Rushcliffe
  • Air pollution
  • Carbon emissions
  • Tech & Innovation
  • Built Environment
  • Biodiversity & Nature
  • Energy

Lord Street External Wall Insulation

Reducing carbon emissions and heating bills through retrofitting external wall insulation.

Mansfield
  • Carbon emissions
  • Health & wellbeing
  • Built Environment
  • Energy
  • Finance

Eckington Leisure Centre Retrofit

Investing in the Council's ageing leisure facilities to create a sustainable community space.

North East Derbyshire
  • Air pollution
  • Carbon emissions
  • Health & wellbeing
  • Built Environment
  • Energy

Hwb y Gors

Zero Carbon Arts, Education & Enterprise Centre

Neath Port Talbot
  • Carbon emissions
  • Built Environment
  • Energy

Sedgeberrow Sustainable and Manageable Energy

Energy mapping and master-planning for a Worcestershire village community.

Wychavon
  • Carbon emissions
  • Tech & Innovation
  • Built Environment
  • Biodiversity & Nature
  • Energy

HANDIHEAT

Demonstrating how housing will prepare for the energy transition with sustainable solutions.

Fermanagh and Omagh
  • Carbon emissions
  • Excessive consumption
  • Greater fairness
  • Built Environment
  • Energy

Core 364

Reducing carbon emissions through a pioneering climate change retrofit project in Sunderland.

Sunderland
  • Carbon emissions
  • Health & wellbeing
  • Tech & Innovation
  • Built Environment
  • Energy

Staffordshire Business Environmental Network

Supporting businesses to achieve long-term sustainability.

Cannock Chase
  • Carbon emissions
  • Tech & Innovation
  • Waste
  • Built Environment
  • Circular Economy
  • Energy

Staffordshire University Nursery and Forest School

Providing a sustainable place of early years learning connected to nature.

Stoke-on-Trent
  • Carbon emissions
  • Excessive consumption
  • Health & wellbeing
  • Built Environment
  • Biodiversity & Nature

Wixford Village Hall

Funding the upgrade of a dilapidated village hall.

Stratford-on-Avon
  • Carbon emissions
  • Tech & Innovation
  • Waste
  • Built Environment
  • Circular Economy
  • Finance

KSCA Zero Carbon Project

Reducing carbon emissions from a community building.

South Staffordshire
  • Carbon emissions
  • Built Environment
  • Energy
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