Exploring ideas around a restorative/ net positive built environment, based on our understanding of environmental limits and social equality, and drawing on both best practice and emerging knowledge from leading practitioners and thinkers from around the globe about creating exemplary projects at both the building and neighbourhood level.
Identifying areas that need systemic change, both across the industry and at a cultural level, and then developing disruptive, collaborative responses about how change can be achieved, resulting in systems maps to show what change (and new system infrastructure) is needed to meet the grand challenge.
At the Sustainable Development Foundation our mission is to help tackle the climate and ecological emergency by driving the adoption of exemplary sustainability practices in buildings. Our library of exemplar projects demonstrates buildings which are fit for the future and being built, NOW.
The Sustainable Development Foundation has supported the development of a number of leading non-profit organisations.
The Exemplar Sustainable Buildings Awards has just dropped the hotly anticipated shortlist of finalists. From retrofit revolutions and game-changing homes and workspaces, to next-gen materials and initiatives driving systematic change across …
19 June 2025 • 09:00 – 17:30 This year’s UKIEG is hosted by the Healthy Buildings Network at the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Leeds. Academics, industry …
In the Sustainable Development Foundation’s 20th anniversary year, we are delighted to announce a new one-off awards programme to identify and celebrate the UK’s most pioneering sustainable projects, innovative products, …
