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We bring the smartest minds in the property carbon-reduction world to FOOTPRINT+, so we think it’s only right for us to disseminate all this experience and knowledge freely. Most of what you hear here won’t have been spoken about before; it’s all hot-off-the-press! If you were at FOOTPRINT+ 2026, you can hear all the talks you couldn’t get to while you were in another of our 6 theatres; and if you weren’t, now is your chance to learn why you need to be at FOOTPRINT+ 2027.
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Real estate fund managers: How should you prepare for SDR and SFDR 2?
Real estate fund managers need to address the challenges presented by UK and EU disclosure regulations relating to sustainability: a dual regulatory horizon. From July 2024 the UK Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR) regime has been mandatory for UK-authorised funds for UK retail…
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Heat Networks are coming: Are you ready?
Heat networks are moving from niche infrastructure to a core component of the UK’s heat decarbonisation strategy. With new regulations now in force – and more to come, including on technical standards and heat network zoning—the implications for real estate developers and operators are immediate...
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Regionalisation in the commercial marketplace: Making the case for retrofit and decarbonisation
Retrofitting commercial buildings is critical to reducing energy use and carbon emissions, yet delivering viable projects remains complex. No two buildings, clients, or regions are the same, and a business case that works in London may not stack up in Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, or other...
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Respecting materials: A collaborative approach to aluminium takeback
How can different construction stakeholders work together to ensure best reuse of high-quality aluminium? Exploring the circular approach adopted on a major student‑accommodation redevelopment, we highlight how the client, main contractor, consultants and the aluminium manufacturer worked…
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ROOT to Market: Building regenerative supply chains
ROOT to Market is a dynamic procurement marketplace designed to help the property sector deliver projects with greater transparency, impact and long-term value. Unlike traditional, one-off tendering models, ROOT to Market is a perpetually open and flexible platform aligned with the RIBA Plan of...
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When carbon becomes currency: Market forces reshaping delivery
As the industry accelerates towards low‑carbon delivery, the tension between cost and carbon is reshaping project value. This panel brings together cost consultants, contractors, manufacturers and circularity specialists to examine how market forces, funding and client priorities influence...
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Retrofitting in a shallow market: Creating value through sustainability
In shallow and illiquid markets, developers face a distinct challenge: how to future-proof existing assets while protecting returns and maintaining flexibility in the business plan. This session explores how targeted retrofitting strategies can unlock value in standing buildings, aligning...
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Solar Power: Delivering a rooftop revolution
Solar power is becoming a central pillar of the UK’s decarbonisation and clean energy strategies, with Government committed to trebling solar capacity by 2030. For commercial real estate investors and developers, this creates a significant opportunity. Falling costs, improving performance and…
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Built to Last or Built for Landfill? The Commercial Case for Design for Disassembly
Why does the hospitality industry accept that perfectly good interiors will be ripped out and burnt or buried? It is a catastrophic failure to plan for a completely predictable outcome, and it costs developers, operators and the planet. In this session, James Goldsmith of Sibley Grove joins Nick...
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From innovation to implementation: Accelerating the use of low-carbon and circular concretes
The range of low-carbon and circular concrete solutions is growing rapidly from novel binders and recycled aggregates to new design and specification approaches. Yet adoption on live projects often lags behind technical feasibility. This session explores how developers, designers and contractors...
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38 Finsbury Square: Delivering a holistic, future-ready retrofit
38 Finsbury Square is a major retrofit delivering 52,000 sq ft of future-ready workspace in the heart of London. The project is defined by an ambitious and genuinely holistic sustainability brief, balancing environmental performance, social value and commercial viability. Alongside targeting…
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How can the underwrite be best supported by design?
In a volatile and uncertain market, the underwriting process is often undertaken when limited information is available about the true cost and risk implications of future modernisation, decarbonisation and certification requirements. This session explores how design teams can better support...
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Timber Square: Building success with timber workspace
Timber Square is redefining how sustainable workplaces can be designed, delivered, and adapted for the future. Driven by a commitment to minimise whole-life carbon, the project integrates innovative structural solutions, material reuse strategies, and forward-thinking design principles to achieve...
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Healthy neighbourhoods: Designing healthy living
How does the environment impact our physical and mental health? Over the past two decades, our understanding of health and wellbeing has deepened, driven by scientific breakthroughs and a growing awareness of how the built environment shapes our bodies and minds. The global pandemic further...
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FUSE: Lab-enabled developments for less
FUSE (Flexible Upgradeable Sustainable Ecosystem) reframes science space as a platform: a high‑performing workplace that can be upgraded when needed. By avoiding day‑one overspecification, it reduces embodied and operational carbon, shortens delivery, and stays cost‑accessible. Structure…
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Ensuring supply chain solidity
Ensuring supply chain solidity requires a continual focus on upstream activities, whose environmental and social impacts are often underestimated. For most companies, Scope 3 emissions account for over 90% of their footprint, making supplier selection a critical strategic decision. Through...
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Broadgate Tower: Repositioning through sustainable refurbishment
The retrofit of Broadgate Tower reimagines a key building in one of London’s iconic office estates. Originally completed in 2008, the project aims to deliver a best-in-class, sustainable workplace that responds to its unique location between Shoreditch and the City, while retaining the tower’s...
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Cost vs. Investment: The socio-economics of net zero
Beginning with the IoD PBE’s usual 'Quarterly Economic Update', this panel session will explore how our push toward net zero creates opportunities across the value chain, not only for businesses, but also for communities and society. As noted in a recent report by the Energy & Climate…
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The Exit: Is Sustainability a Key Factor in the Liquidity of the Asset
As market conditions tighten and buyer scrutiny increases, preparing a real estate asset for exit has become more complex than timing alone. This session explores how liquidity is now shaped not just by location and income, but by sustainability credentials and future readiness. We will examine...
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Delivery, Contracts and Execution Risk
From target to delivery, the greatest risks to carbon, energy and resilience performance often emerge not in design, but in contracts, procurement and execution. This session explores the persistent gap between design intent and operational reality, examining why projects so often fail to deliver...
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Material Passports in Practice
Orms will present the progress and emerging outcomes of their extensive research on materials passports. With industry templates recently released, and hosting an ongoing working group, the team have been testing and applying work to live projects. It moves the conversation forward from material...
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Theatr Clwyd: Retrofit for the future
Theatr Clwyd is a cornerstone of North Wales’ arts scene, operating as a major producing theatre and regional cultural hub with a diverse estate of performance, rehearsal and support spaces. Developed incrementally over time, the aggregated buildings on the site are representative of many complex...
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The Disposable Interior: Durability, natural materials and how spaces shape who we are
Commercial interiors are stripped and refitted every five to seven years. The industry has developed serious tools to respond — materials passports, embodied carbon targets, circular economy frameworks. These matter. What they don’t address is whether a space is designed to last — and whether the...
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Governance, Disclosure and Accountability
As ESG commitments move from aspiration to obligation, real estate investors face growing scrutiny around governance, disclosure and accountability. This session examines: the evolving legal landscape of ESG compliance the risks associated with inaccurate disclosure, inadequate oversight and…
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Regenerative Places: Transforming housing-led development for thriving communities
UKGBC’s Regenerative Places programme aims to shift built environment practice towards more regenerative, place-based outcomes. Focusing on both retrofit and housing-led regeneration, the emerging Framework considers the pathways, actions and stakeholders needed to realise the long-term potential...
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Design for Demountability
This session explores how demountability can move from aspiration to standard practice across development, design and construction. Drawing on live project experience, we examine the fundamental barriers to reuse, including inaccessible fixings, adhesives and vertical transport constraints,...
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Scaleable solutions to remake architectural glass
Vast quantities of post-consumer glass from commercial buildings are still lost to landfill due to contamination, logistics, and cost barriers. This session shares key lessons from implementing a new, scalable pathway to recover end-of-life architectural glass and return it to new building...
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Bamboo House: Scalable UK-grown bio-based modular housing
In collaboration with Sano and Atelier One, the Sano Bamboo project is constructing a demonstration house to trial bamboo as a sustainable structural alternative for UK home building, with the aim of setting a new benchmark for healthier homes that align with wellbeing and environmental...
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Building tomorrow together: Circular solutions at 1 Victoria Street
1 Victoria Street is a historically layered site undergoing transformation into a responsible and future-focused workplace. In partnership with Mitsubishi Estate and architects AHMM, the project reimagines a building last redeveloped in the 1960s into a sustainable office space that responds...
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171 Victoria Street: Sustainability as core investment risk management
171 Victoria Street is an iconic 412,000 ft² redevelopment and a good example of how sustainability has become core investment risk management, not an add-on. From day one, this project was aligned with Westminster’s strong retrofit-first policy, so the real question wasn’t whether to reuse the...
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Delivering Net Zero in Retrofit: Vision, Design and Delivery
Energy performance is where the net-zero retrofit challenge will be won but only if ambition is matched by delivery. Using Tower Bridge Court (TBC.London) as a live case study, this panel explores how one of London’s first all-electric, net-zero carbon retrofit workplaces translated energy…
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The Portman Estate head office: Heritage workspace transformation for people and planet
The Portman Estate’s relocation of its head office to One Great Cumberland Place presented an exciting opportunity to reimagine the workplace. The project aims to set a benchmark for sustainable commercial interiors across its 110-acre Marylebone estate. The retrofit of the 8,400 sq ft office...
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Accelerating Regenerative Design practice
So what is Regenerative Design? Regenerative design is increasingly discussed across the built environment sector, yet it is often unclear what it means and how it differs from other sustainability practices within construction. This session will provide a concise, accessible introduction to what...
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(Re)Euston Tower: Towards concrete reuse at scale
Obsolescence in buildings is driven by far more than technical performance. In practice, much end-of-life concrete remains structurally sound, yet current waste management approaches are usually limited to downcycling, perpetuating high material demand and the embodied carbon associated with new...
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Decarbonisation of heat: Navigating the policy landscape
The UK Green Building Council will present an update on the built environment sector’s progress on meeting their net zero trajectory. This panel will review the evolving UK regulatory landscape which aims to deliver decarbonisation of buildings. With the Future Homes and Buildings Standard now...
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The Historic Dockyard Chatham, Commissioner’s House: Retrofitting a Scheduled Ancient Monument
Despite its significance, the building presents a familiar challenge: an old building which has become unsuitable for modern use. While upper floors had fallen out of use, they retain an extraordinary completeness, with original panelling and later historic fabric largely intact. This “frozen”...
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Supply chains: The lost art of storytelling
Supply chains are often viewed as cold, transactional systems, yet behind every product is a chain of people, decisions and impacts: the ‘warm’ supply chain. This session explores the art of storytelling in supply chains, reframing them as human networks that stretch from raw material to finished...
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Is a sustainable tomorrow synonymous with smarter value?
Sustainability has moved far beyond regulatory compliance - it is now a fundamental driver of competitive advantage for both investors and developers. This ThinkTank will explore how ESG principles are being embedded across the investment and development lifecycle, influencing capital allocation,...
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UKNZC Buildings Standard: Verification and Adoption
Version 1 of the UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard (the Standard) was published in March. It lays the groundwork for formal, independent verification that will go live in Q2 2026, allowing buildings to undergo rigorous assessment and formally demonstrate Net Zero Carbon Alignment. Updates to...
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2 Finsbury Avenue: Engineering a sustainable new skyline
2 Finsbury Avenue is a 38‑storey, 106,000 sq m development set to Chairperson Marion Charlier, Central Engineering Lead - Arcelor Mittal Speakers Matthew Webster, Head of Sustainability - British Land Ollie Wildman, Director - Buildings - Ramboll Kathryn Castledine, Senior Sustainability Manager…
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One Exchange Square: Structural reimagining
One Exchange Square reimagines a 1980s office building and demonstrates how novel methods can be used to expand commercial floor space on a large-scale cut & carve project whilst minimising carbon impact. The whole building has been redesigned to deliver healthier working environments with roof...
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Market Sentiment, Appetite and Behaviour
Investor approaches to greening real assets span a wide spectrum—from doing the bare minimum to comply with regulation, to deep retrofits designed to meaningfully reduce climate impact. This session explores what truly matters to investors across this range of ambition and how differing…
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NowtHaus: Beyond HVAC
Is it possible to remove mechanical heating and cooling systems entirely while still providing comfort? Buildings today are increasingly designed around mechanical systems rather than people. Comfort is routinely solved through equipment, driving complexity, cost and carbon. Heating, ventilation...
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What if we already know how to design regeneratively?
Much to the annoyance of linguists, Will Arnold argues that regenerative design is a verb, not a noun. It's a process we can all follow - on any project - to move us closer to the goal of doing more good with construction, rather than just minimising harm. In this keynote, Will will share a…
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Heat pumps and improved EPC ratings: Making them fit for purpose
Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) have shaped the non-domestic built environment since their introduction in 2008 and, despite ongoing criticism, are clearly here to stay. While EPCs are often challenged for relying on simplified and sometimes outdated assumptions, overlooking factors such…
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Rethinking Cat A: Reducing waste in commercial fit out
Workplace Futures Group shine a light on the impact of CAT A fitouts within construction. The session will provide real world data on the impact of CAT A fitouts, reviewing waste, carbon and cost impacts created in the move from landlord to tenant ownership. The panel will also discuss examples…
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Circular Aluminium: Closed loops and the future of retrofit
Respecting materials is essential to credible circularity in construction yet current legislation fails to demand low-carbon or post-consumer metals. This gap is expected to close as policy evolves but progress on such regulation is slow. Using the example of a central London office retrofit this...
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Stone: A commodity not a luxury: From spolia to stone bricks
Reimagining the future of stone as a utilitarian material; this talk will put stone centre stage and consider the concept that a brick can be a stone - and visa versa - and a stone can be an ashlar, with all of them a humble piece of rubble walling for the next century. As ideas of circular…
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Building Workplaces Better: The Path to B Corp and Beyond
Join Workplace Futures Group (WFG) as we delve into the transformative journey towards sustainability and social responsibility, anchored by the principles of B Corp certification. This engaging session will feature actionable insights and real-world case studies that highlight the challenges,...
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Heritage reimagined: Transforming the Brighton Corn Exchange for a Sustainable Future
Hear from heritage and design experts as they share the story of the Brighton Dome Corn Exchange, a Grade I listed building transformed into a vibrant, sustainable cultural hub. Recognised with a prestigious 2024 Structural Award from the IStructE, this remarkable project showcases how…
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We bring the smartest minds in the property carbon-reduction world to FOOTPRINT+, so we think it’s only right for us to disseminate all this experience and knowledge freely. Most of what you hear here won’t have been spoken about before; it’s all hot-off-the-press! If you were at FOOTPRINT+ 2026, you can hear all the talks you couldn’t get to while you were in another of our 6 theatres; and if you weren’t, now is your chance to learn why you need to be at FOOTPRINT+ 2027.
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