Don’t Waste Buildings is the voluntary effort to put a spotlight on up-front, or embodied, carbon and make the case for the productive use of empty and underperforming buildings.
These buildings, all over the UK, and globally, are untapped economic and social assets, not structures to be casually discarded. They could be utilised to deliver much-needed housing and development at greater speed, lower cost and with less of an impact on our environment.
Our group is non-party political and is run by a collection of individuals made up of leading property developers, financiers, architects, engineers, heritage experts, and others.