The SDF welcomes the launch of a new initiative to highlight and celebrate progress in the industry towards regenerative and highly sustainable buildings.
The Regenerative Architecture Index, launched in September 2024 by UK Architects Declare and Architecture Today, sets out to benchmark architectural practices’ progress in the move towards a built environment that isn’t merely reducing its negative impacts, but has positive impacts for today and the long term. Through eliciting detailed responses to a series of prompts, the Index evaluates their regenerative approaches in both day-to-day working practices and in the buildings they deliver.
Sixty-eight organisations – mostly architectural practices but also engineers, charities and clients – participated in the Index, submitting their answers to detailed questions in three broad categories: being a good ancestor, co-evolving with nature, and creating a just space for people.
Five of the projects that the SDF celebrates in our exemplars library highlight the work of several of the featured practices – Architype (Agar Grove, Entopia, Harris Academy, Enterprise Centre), Gale and Snowden (St Sidwell’s Point), Hawkins/Brown and Max Fordham (Agar Grove).
Among the other practices are members of the Sustainable Buildings Alliance partners, including Collective Architecture, dRMM, ECD Architects and RDA Architects.
Read more about the Regenerative Architecture Index here.
And find out more about the thinking behind the Index in the Regenerative Design Primer created by UK Architects Declare, available to download via Architecture Today here.