• How to balance the competing demands of environmental impact, safety, social inclusion, fairness etc and cost
• Using outcomes to define what clients and stakeholders want from their assets
• Performance measurement and incentivisation
• Particular issues for retrofit

• Key commitments and strategies for climate change adaptation
• Creating and maintaining biodiversity in urban areas
• Reducing embodied carbon with sustainable procurement and fewer carbon-intensive materials

• Driving better social, environmental, and economic outcomes with the Value Toolkit
• Redefining value: making balanced, informed decisions with value-based procurement
• How does the Value Toolkit support the Construction Playbook?

• What net zero actually means in practice
• Introduction to the Passivhaus standard
• Review of broader issues and constraints around grid‐decarbonisation
• 2050 challenge into context in terms of what we need to achieve with both our new‐build and existing buildings

• Introduction to the Sustainability Research Institute: projects, goals, and case studies
• Developing pre-fabricated construction systems with organic materials
• Discussing innovative concretes and aggregates
• Exploring biocomposite materials

This session will focus on the practical how-to guidance available to the construction sector to more effectively and consistently meet the challenges of addressing policy and legislation relating to climate, biodiversity, and public health concerns on a scheme by scheme basis.

Building with Nature’s mission is to raise the bar for the UK built-environment industry, through a proactive approach to nature-friendly development, that’s sensitive to location and context, and that cares about long-term maintenance and management.

• Launched in 2018, the Building with Nature Standards Framework, the UK’s first benchmark for high-quality green infrastructure, offers an industry-tested framework of principles and how-to guidance for developers and policy-makers. The Standards are grounded in evidence-based research, have wide support from industry and government, and are free to download.
• Building with Nature also offer voluntary accreditation of development schemes and policy documents, providing an independent verification of quality, enabling developers to demonstrate that they have successfully delivered high-quality GI at both design and post-construction stages.

• The UK needs to build; there is a shortage of competent and experienced workers, and the workforce we have lacks diversity and is not reflective of UK society.
• A fragmented sector that struggles to collaborate means multiple stakeholders, initiatives, data streams and platforms. This is inefficient, costly and short-term.
• One solution is to join the dots across existing initiatives and to aggregate careers opportunities, thus enabling equality of opportunity across a fragmented careers landscape.
• Find out how to join in with a network of organisations that deliver built environment careers support to diverse and under-represented audiences (women, people from ethnic minorities, ex-military personnel, refugees, young people, ex-offenders, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ people).

*Programme Subject To Change