May 27, 2022
This report stresses that “ from residential to commercial buildings, the UK’s built environment is responsible for 25% of the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions. The Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) warns that to date there has been a lack of Government impetus or policy levers to assess and reduce these emissions. With climate deadlines looming, urgent action is needed.”
Our members contributed significantly to this report, as did other organisations allied in this movement.
SBUK demonstrated through analytical reporting and data, that natural materials are a robust solution to the problems that the built environment is striving to overcome.
Bringing together ecological design, natural building and regenerative practice
Discover straw building projects from across Europe
Five days of international collaboration, technical exchange and innovation
Measured performance in a lived-in load-bearing straw bale home
Why long-term housing quality depends on widening the way we think about delivery, regulation, retrofit, and responsibility across the built environment.
School of Natural Building – Practical Natural Building Course
Measured performance in a lived-in load-bearing straw bale home
ASBP Material Mornings - Natural fibre insulation in practice
The December 2025 issue highlights the UK resource and the low embodied-carbon values set out in the straw EPD.
Bringing science and industry together to advance healthier built environments