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Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL)


Read more at: CISL's Entopia Building shortlisted for RIBA Reinvention award 
View of the roof of the Entopia Building, with solar panels above and with views towards Parker's Piece

CISL's Entopia Building shortlisted for RIBA Reinvention award 

7 August 2025

7 August 2025 – CISL's retrofit headquarters in Cambridge, the Entopia Building, has been shortlisted for another prestigious award.


Read more at: CISL hosts summit to launch new Living Lab & accelerate innovation in the built environment
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CISL hosts summit to launch new Living Lab & accelerate innovation in the built environment

5 August 2025

05 August 2025 – Attendees to the Summit were given an opportunity to shape the research, partnerships and investment priorities that will drive the future of innovation in the built environment processes & practices to new technologies.


Read more at: CISL and The Crown Estate announce major partnership
Solar panels on roof of Entopia Building, with person working at table underneath

CISL and The Crown Estate announce major partnership

16 July 2025

16 July 2025 - The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) and The Crown Estate have today announced a major new partnership to accelerate sustainable innovation and collaboration in the built environment and support nature recovery across the UK.


Read more at: CISL’s sustainable HQ, the Entopia Building, wins four more awards 
Trophies at the BCO Awards

CISL’s sustainable HQ, the Entopia Building, wins four more awards 

19 May 2025

19 May 2025 – The Entopia Building has added another four accolades to its trophy cabinet, winning at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) East Awards and the British Council for Offices (BCO) Awards ceremonies.


Read more at: What is it like to work in a collaborative hub fostering sustainability and innovation?
The Entopia Building photographed from Regent Street

What is it like to work in a collaborative hub fostering sustainability and innovation?

27 March 2025 - CISL’s Chief Innovation Officer James Cole details a day in the life at CISL’s Entopia Building, a world-class innovation hub, recently named by the Financial Times as one of Europe's leading startup hubs for the second year running.


Read more at: CISL’s Entopia Building shortlisted for RIBA award
Exterior view of the Entopia Building from Regent Street in Cambridge. Image by SOLK-PHOTOGRAPHY LTD

CISL’s Entopia Building shortlisted for RIBA award

24 March 2025

24 March 2025 – The Cambridge headquarters of the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, the Entopia Building, is among 23 projects nominated for the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) East Awards 2025.


Read more at: Entopia Building wins twice at CIBSE Building Performance Awards 
Entopia Building project partners collecting their awards

Entopia Building wins twice at CIBSE Building Performance Awards 

28 February 2025

28 February 2025 – The Cambridge Institute for Sustainability’s headquarters, the Entopia Building, brought home two prizes at last night’s Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) awards ceremony.


Read more at: CISL welcomes Daniel Zeichner, MP for Cambridge, to Entopia for tour and discussions on delivering impact for a sustainable future 
Daniel Zeichner visits Entopia

CISL welcomes Daniel Zeichner, MP for Cambridge, to Entopia for tour and discussions on delivering impact for a sustainable future 

15 July 2024

15 July 2024 – CISL was pleased to welcome Daniel Zeichner, MP for Cambridge, to Entopia for a tour of our award-winning sustainable HQ and our Canopy community. Eliot Whittington, Chief Systems Change Officer, and Beverley Cornaby, Director of Corporate Leaders Group UK, showed Daniel Zeichner around our award-winning...


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Exterior view of the Entopia Building from Regent Street in Cambridge. Image by SOLK-PHOTOGRAPHY LTD

Living Lab

The Entopia Living Lab provides a collaborative open innovation platform to accelerate the adoption of solutions and innovations in the built environment. Through enhanced collaboration, demonstration and validation of solutions with routes to real world impact via academic insight, industry practice and policy engagement, we aim to make the Living Lab a catalyst for change.


Read more at: CISL’s energy efficient Entopia building wins the AJ100 Awards 2023
AJ100 Awards 2023

CISL’s energy efficient Entopia building wins the AJ100 Awards 2023

22 June 2023

22 June 2023 - Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL)’s green office retrofit, the Entopia Building, has won ‘Collaboration of the Year’ at the Architects’ Journal (AJ) 100 Awards 2023.