• SDF becomes a UNECE Centre of Excellence for High Performance Buildings

    SDF becomes a UNECE Centre of Excellence for High Performance Buildings

    We’re very excited to announce that on 3rd November at COP26 in Glasgow, SDF became one of the first UNECE International Centres of Excellence for High Performance Buildings, helping advance the rapid transition to high performance buildings in support of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Climate Accord.

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  • Inaugural Neil May MBE Memorial Lecture

    Inaugural Neil May MBE Memorial Lecture

    We held our inaugural lecture on Friday 2nd July, in memory of the late Neil May MBE. Neil May was an inspiration to many and helped shape the development of many of our SDF Alliance partners: the ASBP, the Good Homes Alliance, Passivhaus Trust and STBA.

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  • Kate Brown joins SDF as Head of Special Projects

    Kate Brown joins SDF as Head of Special Projects

    This month we welcome new Associate Kate Brown as our Head of Special Projects. She brings a wealth of knowledge in marketing and strategic development, and has worked for the last four years in sustainable construction.

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  • Launch of SuperHomes partnership

    Launch of SuperHomes partnership

    Sustainable Development Foundation is pleased to announce its new partnership with SuperHomes, which is coordinated by the National Energy Foundation. Building on the success of its existing network of 200 pioneering SuperHomes, the relaunched network will aim to support the development of one million SuperHomes by 2030.

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  • Neil May (MBE) Obituary

    Neil May (MBE) Obituary

    Neil May was an inspiration and fellow traveller to the Sustainable Development Foundation (SDF), constantly striving to improve the performance of some part of the property and construction industry and gathering people around him to help make the necessary changes happen.

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  • Kate Brown

    Kate Brown

    Associate: head of special projects Kate provides strategic support for SDF programme development. Kate also lectures in sustainable buildings and climate change at Oxford Brookes University,  provides consultancy to architecture …

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