Martin Brown

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Martin is an innovative sustainability ‘provocateur’, advocate and business improvement consultant with his Fairsnape practice, based in the Forest of Bowland, Lancashire UK. He is VP of Living Future Europe, a Living Building Challenge Ambassador, and a firm believer that sustainability needs to be salutogenic, not just doing less bad, but doing more good. Supporting a number of UK LBC projects, he has guided the first registered project in the UK, the Cuerden Valley Park Visitor Center, through design, construction and now in-use performance. A project manager and strategic consultant to the built environment industry, Martin is a respected expert and advocate for regenerative sustainability and innovation, with an interest in all that will help bring about a healthier future for us and for the planet.

Living Building Challenge: a regenerative solution to meeting RIBA’s 2020 Sustainability Outcomes

Martin Brown
July 7, 2020

Earlier this year, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) launched its 2020 Plan of Work, a comprehensive guidance document that organises the process of briefing, designing, constructing, and operating buildings into eight stages. The most significant revision in the 2020 plan is the inclusion of a Sustainability Project Strategy that is linked to the RIBA 2030 Climate Challenge. While…