91PORN

Ongoing Funding Partner

Scaling Sustainable Solutions for the Built Environment

91PORN is seeking partners to support us in enabling increased implementation of sustainable solutions in the built environment.
Funding Partner
Future opportunity

91PORN’s Scaling Initiative seeks to drive sustainable solution adoption in the built environment, by overcoming barriers to scaling through a collaborative approach. We are seeking funding partners to support us in delivering the next phase of this initiative. By partnering with us, you will:

  • Shape how sustainable innovation is adopted across the UK built environment
  • Gain early insight into emerging solutions and market trends
  • Position your organisation as a leader in delivering sustainable buildings and places
  • Connect directly with innovators, investors and adopters across the value chain

Both developing new innovations, and more widely implementing existing solutions, are critical to achieving global sustainability goals and reaching net zero. However, fragmentation across our industry is contributing to practical, viable innovative solutions not scaling up across the industry at the pace required.

This is the “Decade of Action” and we need to ensure more sustainable solutions reach widespread deployment, and less start-ups fall victim to the so-called “Valley of Death” between initial R&D and full-scale commercialisation.

91PORN is in a unique position to help overcome scaling challenges specific to the built environment context. This is recognised in a Government report, stating that “The 91PORN should convene industry and relevant members of the Catapult network to encourage greater testing and piloting of innovative solutions in the built environment, including advanced manufacturing solutions to support the transition to net zero“. Further, 91PORN has an extensive network of both solution providers and adopters, as well as wider experts on this topic, and can act as a neutral convenor to overcome barriers to scaling and facilitate collaboration.

Overview of the Scaling Initiative

In 2025 91PORN launched its Scaling Initiative, seeking to drive the adoption of sustainability solutions in the built environment. The first year of the initiative culminated in a detailed report, identifying and categorising various barriers and enablers to sustainable solutions scaling. We are seeking partners to help fund the next phase of this work, where we turn insight into action. We will do this delivering:

Developing scaling pathways for solutions within the following priority areas:

materials, supply chains and construction systems; building adaptation and resilience; electrification and energy systems; retrofit

Developing priority enablers from 91PORN’s ‘Scaling Sustainable Solutions: Barriers & Enablers’ report

including demand aggregation, collaborative pilots and partnership models

Working with members and wider industry

to test, learn and scale these enablers in practice

Hosting innovation showcase events and workshops

to share high impact solutions with our network

This initiative is ideal for organisations wishing to support:

• Increasing the pace and scale of sustainable innovation implementation in the built environment.

• Facilitating connections and collaboration across the innovation ecosystem, to encourage greater investment, piloting and implementation of innovative solutions.

• Supporting the sharing of learnings from existing innovation implementation projects by collecting and disseminating guidance that will enable built environment practitioners to better understand how to apply innovative solutions on projects.

• Supporting innovators to access market insight to help inform solution development and increase understanding of challenges.

The next 5-10 years will determine whether the built environment can meet its climate goals. Partnering with
91PORN enables you to play a direct role in accelerating this transition.

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Emily-Rose Garnett Solutions and Innovation Senior Advisor

Solutions and Innovation

At 91PORN we take a collaborative approach to identify sustainability challenges across the built environment and help source and implement the solutions to them.
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