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7th Oct, 2025

5 principles to create value from circularity

Our latest report explores five principles that explain how to define the benefits of circularity, measure progress correctly and establish the concept as a business-wide...
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Insight•
27th May, 2025

In depth: Identifying the levers for change in the UK waste sector

Discover how we helped Reconomy define strategic principles to accelerate the UK’s circular economy transition.

Construction and development posts

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By Sancroft Team•
9th May, 2025

In depth: Building a leading human rights framework

Discover how we helped Barratt Redrow strengthen its approach to human rights across a complex value chain.
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By Sancroft Team•
20th Sep, 2022

Climate change and buildings: why businesses can benefit by building resilience

By Ilkka Saarinen, former Analyst at Sancroft. The summer of 2022 once again highlighted how climate change will continue to affect the way we live...
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By Sancroft Team•
30th Sep, 2020

Acceleration of the Energy Transition – a focus on energy and infrastructure

On 10th September we were delighted to share the webinar platform again with our colleagues from leading law firm Ashurst and environmental consultants RSK to...
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By Sancroft Team•
31st Jul, 2020

How the built environment sector can help deliver a sustainable recovery

As the UK emerges from the COVID-19 crisis and continues to ease lockdown rules, the slogan for recovery has become ‘Build Back Better’. A large-scale...
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By Sancroft Team•
25th Mar, 2020

Sustainability in the construction sector

The construction sector is a critical part of the UK economy. It directly employs over 2.3 million people, contributes 6% of national GVA (gross value...
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By Sancroft Team•
1st Aug, 2019

Sustainability in planning and development: reduce costs and future proof

Do we really need to think about sustainability before submitting planning applications? Not the question at the forefront of most minds, but one of the...
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By Sancroft Team•
26th Jun, 2019

Making the Ethical Grade: From Transparency to Action on Modern Slavery

The UK’s 2015 Modern Slavery Act (MSA) is rightly seen as a ground-breaking piece of legislation, designed to fight modern slavery and ensure that victims...
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By Sancroft Team•
8th Nov, 2018

Innovation in the Built Environment: What could construction look like in the future?

What comes to mind when you think of a construction site? Towering cranes counter-weighted by enormous concrete blocks, heavy-duty lorries entering and exiting with aggregates...
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By Sancroft Team•
1st Nov, 2017

Chasing the Green Light – The Industrial Strategy Green Paper

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) launched its Industrial Strategy Green Paper in January 2017. The Government sought industry responses to the...
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By Sancroft Team•
12th Jul, 2017

Lessons After Grenfell

Five problems and five solutions in complex project contracting chains The early morning hours of 14 June were a time of immense fear, uncertainty and...