FOOTPRINT+ 2023 featured five main stages.
The Financing the Carbon Revolution Stage showcased how built environment stakeholders are adopting new funding models like green loans, how private capital can play a role in regeneration, how ESG performance affects an assets valuation and the impact of future financial regulation on the property industry.
The Retrofit Agenda Stage offered comprehensive and case-study-based insight into how project teams are addressing the retrofit of existing buildings across all sectors, utilising a range of different strategies to prove that in many cases the most sustainable building is the one you already have.
The Timber Stage focused on a rapidly evolving sector with the potential to deliver significant decarbonisation of new buildings in many sectors such as healthcare, education, housing and medium-rise commercial buildings.
The Zero Carbon Energy presented concepts from the city-scale down to project specific case studies showing how our buildings and developments can integrate renewable energy systems, demand-shifting technology and low-carbon heat. The stage showcased how innovative energy centres deliver energy security, fight the rising costs and drive down carbon emissions from the operational energy used by buildings.
The Circular Economy Stage examined the advances being made to decarbonise supply-chains asking the questions how can our procurement methodologies support the principles of circularity, what progress is being made on the reuse of different material streams and how developers, occupiers and the design team need to work together to achieve material reuse on real projects.