Our Objectives

Uniting progressive actors across the built environment value-chain with an ecosystem of public and private players to influence and build sustainable change.

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Embodied carbon is the next frontier

Source, facilitate, and enable testing and uptake of innovative materials and technology to reduce embodied and operational carbon in tandem.

Address design trade-offs to drive progress

Engage with senior leaders from local and national government as a forward-leaning unique partnership to inform key regulation and policies on embodied carbon, retrofit versus. redevelopment, and others.

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Bring together key value-chain players

Bring together pockets of excellence across the value chain from emerging clean materials to future-focused design and development.

Create tangible outcomes

Showcase the art of the possible by delivering multiple pilot projects, culminating in a flagship project; and create commercial opportunity for partners.

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The United Kingdonm's Built Environment Challenge

  • 50%
  • Projected share of embodied carbon in a building's lifetime carbon footprint by 2050.
  • 2nd
  • Buildings are the second largest source of emissions in the United Kingdom.
  • 14-16%
  • Of global GHG emissions are a result of the cement & steel sectors.

Our Areas of Work

By bringing together a cross-section of industry players, Build Ahead UK is working towards progress along five key enablers.

  • Identify, validate, and source clean materials and technologies that will feasibly lead to large-scale reductions in embodied emissions.

  1. “We are proud and excited to be founding members of Build Ahead UK. At Santander, we believe in supporting our clients and partners access the partners, information, and tools they need to make sustainable decisions for the long-term. Through Build Ahead UK, we believe we can apply a “test and learn” model, taking immediate action to push for system-wide decarbonisation.”

    • Fiona Hyde
    • Head of Sustainable and Responsible Banking
    • Santander

  2. “We were first introduced to Xynteo through their Indian-based Build Ahead UK coalition. The value of a collaborative platform is evident in what they’ve been able to achieve, and we see a pressing need for this form of cohesion in the UK. We’re seeing great progress in other markets like Asia through our own projects, and we’d like to see the same achieved here in the UK.”

    • Lee Polisano
    • Founder
    • PLP Architecture

  3. "At Derwent, we’ve been leading in sustainability for over a decade. Build Ahead UK offers us a platform to build on this work, while addressing many of the other challenges to creating true net zero buildings. Even in a tough market for developers, we can’t afford to take our eye off of sustainability.”

    • Benjamin Lesser
    • Head of Design and Innovation
    • Derwent

  4. “We are proud to launch Build Ahead UK to create the momentum that the industry needs to deliver sustainable and commercially viable buildings. We want to inspire the market and the government to create a movement. With the power of the collective, we can accelerate the change we need.”

    • Emrah Durusut
    • Programme Director and Senior Partner
    • Xynteo
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Our Partners

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Build Ahead

Emrah Durusut

Programme Director, Build Ahead and Senior Partner, Xynteo

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