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

Humberston Eco Conservation Centre

Demonstrating and showcasing renewable energy technologies.

East Lindsey
  • Food security & supply
  • Health & wellbeing
  • Waste
  • Built Environment
  • Circular Economy

Active Building Demonstrators

Testing and evaluating the Active Building concept.

Neath Port Talbot
  • Air pollution
  • Carbon emissions
  • Tech & Innovation
  • Built Environment
  • Energy
  • Transport

Dorset Greener Homes

Showcasing solutions to low carbon living with help from householders.

Dorset
  • Carbon emissions
  • Tech & Innovation
  • Waste
  • Built Environment
  • Biodiversity & Nature
  • Energy

Cambridge Open Eco Homes

Inspiring householders to make big carbon cuts in home energy.

Cambridge
  • Carbon emissions
  • Flooding & drought
  • Health & wellbeing
  • Built Environment
  • Energy

Sustainable Selkirk

Reducing carbon emissions, saving energy and promoting sustainable travel.

Scottish Borders
  • Air pollution
  • Carbon emissions
  • Built Environment
  • Energy
  • Transport

Heritage Eco-Office Provision

Helping companies flourish by providing a holistic approach to office sustainability.

Nottingham
  • Carbon emissions
  • Waste
  • Built Environment
  • Circular Economy
  • Energy

People Powered Retrofit

Helping householders retrofit their homes to high environmental standards.

Manchester
  • Carbon emissions
  • Health & wellbeing
  • Built Environment
  • Energy

Ty Solar Zero Carbon homes

Addressing energy poverty and wellbeing in housing via the use of solar energy and timber build.

Pembrokeshire
  • Carbon emissions
  • Health & wellbeing
  • Tech & Innovation
  • Built Environment
  • Circular Economy
  • Energy

Park Ecovillage Trust

Encouraging wellbeing, social development & environment protection in Findhorn Ecovillage Community.

Moray
  • Biodiversity loss
  • Carbon emissions
  • Waste
  • Built Environment
  • Energy
  • Transport

Empowered by Energy

Empowering refugees and asylum seekers to understand UK energy systems and save energy and money.

Croydon
  • Health & wellbeing
  • Built Environment
  • Energy

Cloughjordan Ecovillage Co. Tipperary

Demonstrating best practice in community development and rural regeneration.

Outside UK
  • Biodiversity loss
  • Carbon emissions
  • Health & wellbeing
  • Built Environment
  • Energy
  • Land Use, Food & Agriculture

REACH Homes

Building low impact homes from recycled materials.

Sheffield
  • Carbon emissions
  • Waste
  • Built Environment
  • Circular Economy
  • Energy
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