Work together

Maria Smith, director of sustainability and physics at Buro Happold

We are hearing it again and again: the built environment is responsible for close to 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions and so therefore central to addressing the climate and biodiversity emergency.

But the built environment is not a big well-oiled carbon-emitting machine that we can just turn the dial down on. We’re dealing with a complex system with a fragmented value chain that spans many industries, government departments, regulations and areas of concern and influence.

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