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TFT is working with the UK Green Building Council to increase the adoption of sustainable solutions in the built environment and help them scale.

Despite the prominence of sustainability issues, and the scope for improvement across the built environment industries, still we see promising solutions struggle to find their place in standard industry practice.

Bridging the sustainability gap(s)

Too often, such ideas get tested again and again but rarely scaled to show their full impact across assets, projects and portfolios. This predicament is known as a “valley of death”, as solutions languish somewhere in the gap between R&D and widespread deployment.  

In TFT's work applying our clients' sustainable ambitions to their buildings and construction projects, we see similar gaps between an owner’s or an occupier’s goals and the realities of improving buildings. Materials, skillsets, investment and the wider commercial and policy landscape all play a role in either incentivising or limiting more sustainable interventions.

So can we cross the gap?

We think so. By combining our team's practical insights on overcoming the constraints of opportunities of our existing buildings, with a growing network of partners including Lloyds Banking Group, Buro Happold, Ramboll, OneClick LCA, Hoare Lea and Landsec, we will deliver targeted matchmaking between solution providers and adopters, new research into the barriers which face solutions before mainstream adoption, and case studies and advice from live projects which can help give others a route to success.

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Find out more about 'Scaling sustainable solutions' here.

Register your interest with the matchmaking scheme here.

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