The built environment shapes how we all live, work and move.
Transforming how we design, construct, and manage buildings and infrastructure allows businesses to seize new opportunities, reduce risk and future-proof assets as part of an economy that uses space, materials and energy much more efficiently and effectively.
This transformation can help protect nature and respond to the climate challenge.
Find out how CISL is working with businesses, innovators, investors and policymakers to incubate new solutions, drive green building standards, and scale sustainable infrastructure.
Insights for built environment professionals
- Research conducted by our banking and insurance groups examines the socioeconomic and resilience benefits of building retrofit, and proposes the business case for action: The Business case for integrated retrofit: How banks, insurers, and the government can support healthy, efficient, and resilient homes
- Learn about our Living Lab which brings together businesses, innovators, researchers, and policymakers to test, and scale real-world solutions for a greener built environment.
- Our Chief Innovation Officer, James Cole, details a day at CISL’s Entopia Building, a world-class innovation hub. What is it like to work in a collaborative hub fostering sustainability and innovation?
- Our Corporate Leaders Groups are driving transition to a net-zero, climate-resilient built environment by aligning business leadership with strong public policy. CLG Europe's 2025 Clean Industrial Deal manifesto calls for an EU policy framework to accelerate decarbonisation of the built environment.
Our sustainable built environment courses
Our programmes draw upon leading academics, practitioners and innovators to help inform business strategy and inspire action.
Sustainable Real Estate: Creating a Better Built Environment
For professionals who want to understand
the sustainability challenges facing the real estate sector.
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Postgraduate programme for the
built environment
Explore the importance of building
knowledge and leadership skills to drive
real change through collaboration.
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Executive Education (open application and custom)
Identify innovative and commercially compelling approaches to address sustainability challenges.
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Innovators for the Built Environment
Accelerator programme to fast-track promising SMEs who are commercialising new products and services that could make net zero a reality in the built environment space.
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Postgraduate student stories
"Each day leaves me invigorated and deeply reflective. The workshops challenge me to step beyond conventional thinking"
Melpomeni Rapti, Homes Propositions and Products Manager at Lloyds Banking Group, and a student on the Postgraduate
Certificate in Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment (IDBE), shares her experience of studying the programme.
Read Melpomeni's experience
"I take away numerous ideas, concepts and perspectives from lecturers and my peers throughout the week"
Adam Meyrick, Construction Manager at Galliford Try Construction, and a student on the Master’s in Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment (IDBE), outlines what a day looks like for him.
Meet Adam
Sustainable built environment innovation and collaboration opportunities
For over three decades, CISL has built individual and organisational leadership capacity and capabilities and created industry-leading collaborations, to catalyse change and accelerate the path to a sustainable economy. To discuss how we can work with you to support you in your transformation, please get in touch.
Find out more about CISL Canopy and Accelerator opportunities, which foster sustainable innovation and entrepreneurship through our community of founders, startups, corporate intrapreneurs, investors and systems change experts.
