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SDF awarded International Centre of Excellence status | Exemplars library: buildings fit for the future | Defining high performance sustainable buildings

UNECE recognises Sustainable Development Foundation as an International Centre of Excellence (ICE) for High Performance Buildings | The Sustainable Development Foundation’s library of exemplar projects demonstrates high performance, sustainable buildings being built now | Discover the ten sustainability indicators that define high performance, sustainable buildings, with the overarching goal of achieving positive outcomes for people, planet and place

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Future Visions

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.

Grand Challenges

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.

Exemplars Library

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.

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Grand challenges

The Sustainable Development Foundation has supported the development of a number of leading non-profit organisations.

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The Sustainable Development Foundation aims to drive the property and construction industry towards exemplary sustainability practices.

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Retrofit at Scale

The current ‘top-down’ national net zero carbon policy advice from the Climate Change Committee to government sets home retrofit as a low priority. In a nutshell, it is substantially cheaper …

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The impact of retrofit on market values

A new research project commissioned by SuperHomes / the National Energy Foundation, with the support of the SDF, has concluded that energy efficiency improvements to existing homes will increase their …

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UKIEG Conference 2024 – monitoring and big data as drivers of quality and health

The annual UKIEG Conference takes place on 6th June in Glasgow, and tickets are available to book now. A multidisciplinary audience of academics, policy makers and industry experts will come …

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