Building Resilience: Creating Great Places Through Regenerative Approaches

What does it look like to design and develop the built environment of the future?

A growing community of leaders are finding answers through the concept of regenerative design.

This concept calls on us to build and maintain in a way that makes places thrive, by taking a place-based approach to delivering better outcomes over time, working closely with community needs, designing for the wider global impacts of our industry, and thoughtfully integrating climate and nature into design.

The aim is to create great buildings and neighbourhoods that generate lasting value and positive impact for communities, cities, and investors.

In a world of challenging investment dynamics and heightened uncertainty, investors need strategies that build lasting, resilient value. Cities need to boost growth and meet housing needs through regenerating neighbourhoods and building thriving communities, all whilst decarbonising and adapting to climate change. And the AEC industry must overcome a skills and courage gap to meet the challenge of climate change with radically new materials and methods that are unfamiliar to many practitioners.

At its heart, committing to regenerative action is about changing processes and tools, metrics for success, and even the mindset that we work in. It is about more than ‘sustainability’. It is about going beyond to truly restore places – and build back better.

But this is not mere fantasy. At this event, we will explore how regenerative principles are being deployed by industry leaders today – at both the building and neighbourhood level – to create healthy, thriving, and innovative places with long-term resilience.

Why Attend

● Gain a clear understanding of what the regenerative design approach means and why it matters now more than ever to drive resilient, long-term value and positive impact.
● See how regenerative principles are already being applied today, at both the building and neighbourhood scale.
● Explore emerging tools and processes: from novel materials to AI-driven development models, and strategies for delivering measurable socio-economic impact.
● Connect with industry peers and pioneers already putting regenerative principles into practice.

The event will be hosted at renowned Chart Street Studios in London. Now the headquarters of Heyne Tillett Steel, the building is a masterfully retrofitted 1930s furniture warehouse that exemplifies sustainable and regenerative design. Chart Street Studios has won several awards, including the 2023 RIBA London Award, the 2022 NLA Retrofit Award, and the 2021 Structural Timber Awards of the Year. It continues to attract much interest from both architects and the general public alike.