80% of the buildings that will exist in 2050 are standing today - to meet net zero commitments we must accelerate retrofit.
Richard Hubbard, ISG’s Board Director, took to the stage as Knowledge Partner at WIRED Impact 2022 alongside a line-up of global game changers to examine the fast-changing world of sustainability, ESG and explore the opportunities for organisations to innovate to tackle humankind’s most pressing challenges.
Building for legacy
Joining a line-up of global game changers addressing humankind’s most pressing challenge: climate change, ISG’s Richard Hubbard took to the stage as a WIRED Knowledge Partner to talk about sustainable construction and building for legacy. As referenced in ISG’s Sustainable Building Monitor report, 80% of the buildings that will exist in 2050 are already here. The construction industry needs to find ways to deal with what buildings we have and to turn them into something that works for both society and the environment. Buildings of today will not necessarily be what they are tomorrow, so we need a shift mindsets to start behaving as custodians of buildings, rather than owners and to view buildings as ‘material banks’, retaining resources and embracing a circularity principle.
Watch Richard's session below:
“For me, the biggest threat facing our planet right now would be mindset. We need to start acting not as owners of buildings, but as custodians, and we need to have longer term thinking.”
Richard Hubbard, Board Director, ISG
Low-carbon retrofit
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Read more insights from Sustainable Buildings Monitor: Redefining value here.
