UKGBC announces new Solutions & Innovation Advisory Group to drive innovation adoption

Delivering a more sustainable built environment requires more than innovative ideas – it requires proven solutions to be adopted and scaled at pace. Through our Solutions & Innovation workstream, UKGBC is identifying high-impact sustainability solutions, understanding the barriers to their adoption, and working with industry to accelerate their deployment across the built environment. By bringing together innovators, adopters and industry leaders, we aim to create the conditions for widespread implementation and market transformation.

UKGBC’s Solutions & Innovation workstream seeks to:

– Increase the adoption of solutions that help address the industry’s most pressing environmental and social challenges.

– Showcase best practice case studies and viable sustainability solutions.

– Raise the profile of, and help scale, innovative start-ups and solutions.

– Support a culture of open innovation and collaboration around innovation.

This year, the workstream enters the second year of the Scaling Sustainable Solutions for the Built Environment initiative, building on the launch of the Barriers and Enablers report. Over the coming year, UKGBC will work with industry to test how the identified enablers can be applied in real-world contexts, develop practical pathways to move solutions from pilots to mainstream adoption, support collaboration across the value chain, and share insights and learning to accelerate progress across the sector.

To support this work, we have convened a new Solutions & Innovation Advisory Group. Drawing on expertise from across the built environment value chain, the group will help shape the workstream’s priorities, provide strategic insight, and champion the adoption and scaling of sustainable solutions across the sector by:

– Acting as an ‘innovation champion’ within their organisation, identifying innovation challenges, priority areas, and adoption opportunities.
– Providing market insight to UKGBC members engaging in sustainable innovation for the built environment.
– Acting as a sounding board for UKGBC’s Solutions & Innovation activities.

Meet the group here:

Name	Title	Organisation
Phanos Hadjikyriakou	Co-Founder & CEO	2050 Materials Ltd
Elliot Marsden	UKIMEA Region Ventures Lead	Arup
Ian Fuller	Director	BL3 Consulting Ltd
Samuel Crowley	Research Consultant	BRE
James Warne	Building Environments Director	Buro Happold Engineering
Gilles Alvarenga	Sustainability Associate	Cundall
Megan Greig	Associate	Elliott Wood Partnership
Ankita Dwivedi	CEO & Founder	Firstplanit
Matt Bonney	Project Architect & Sustainability Lead	GCP Chartered Architects
Stabrag Fadil	Sustainability Consultant	Hilson Moran
Sarah Allaoui	Senior Associate	Hoare Lea
Bahareh Salehi	Associate	Hoare Lea
Gillian Brown	Senior Manager – Sustainable Design	Lloyds Banking Group
Harshita Mathur	Sustainability Designer and Researcher	Make Architects
Giulia Jones	Associate Director – ESG Projects	MAPP
Aleksandra Przydrozna	Business Unit Director, ESG & Sustainability	Meinhardt
Monica Donaldson-Balan	Senior Associate Building Physics Engineer	Mott MacDonald
Catriona Hyland	Investor	NOA
Steven Zijlstra	Product Marketing Manager	One Click LCA
Sam Szczurek	Innovation Lead	Places for London
Emily Scoones	Head of Digital and Innovation (Buildings)	Ramboll
Eliot Powell	Senior Consultant, Sustainable Solutions, Buildings Advisory & Consultancy	Ramboll
Louise Donegan	Director of Strategic Engagement	REACH UK
Ishita Pandey	Sustainability Consultant	Ruane Construction Design & Consultancy
Shruti Ganesh	Sustainability Consultant	Sweco
Peter Runacres	Head of Urban Futures	The Earls Court Development Company
Richard Wilson	Associate Director	Turner & Townsend alinea
Juliana Calabria-Holley	Senior Lecturer	University of Bath
Tim Forman	Associate Teaching Professor	Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership
Francesco Pomponi	Professor (Chair in Sustainability & Environment)	University of York
Paloma Hermoso	Head of Sustainability	Ward Williams Associates