The 2026 Changemaker Awards
WINNERS
The inaugural FOOTPRINT+ Changemaker Awards recognised the projects, products and people delivering measurable change across the built environment.
Selected by an independent judging pane and announced live at FOOTPRINT+ 2026, the winners reflect the breadth of thinking now shaping the future of property.
Creative Structure
Praised by the judges for the scale of innovation throughout the scheme, particularly its creative reuse of structure, low carbon material strategy and pioneering use of reclaimed steel.
Influential Fit Out
Chosen for demonstrating how commercially and operationally complex fit out projects can still deliver meaningful reductions in material and carbon impact.
Pioneering Retrofit
Selected for its regenerative retrofit approach and its successful integration of all electric design, biodiversity and commercial performance
Smart Digital Tool
Highly commended for creating an accessible and widely applicable digital tool that supports greater carbon literacy across the built environment.
Inventive Product
Praised by the judges for enabling raised access flooring systems to be removed and reused without damage, helping divert significant material from landfill.

Award Trophies: Designed to last
Joe Jackson, a London based designer working across product and furniture, was commissioned to create a series of leather pieces in collaboration with Bill Amberg Studio. His approach draws on traditional forming techniques, alongside a developed scoring method that allows the material to guide the final form.
The choice of leather is deliberate. We wanted the trophies to reflect the thinking behind the Changemaker Awards, not just mark the moment. As a by-product, leather already sits within a wider system, and when used well it is durable, repairable and long lasting. It gives the object a sense of permanence that a conventional trophy does not.
Each piece is made by hand. Each piece is completely unique, and that what makes them entirely appropriate.