Sustainability
Address climate risk effectively
Climate risks, from excess heat to increased flood risk, are no longer theoretical, proving to be real risks to public health and wellbeing, as well as economic performance. RLB can demystify climate adaptation – using frameworks such as ISO 14091 Adaptation to Climate Change for organisations, or ISO 14092 Climate Adaption for cities and communities – and help you address climate risk effectively.
Implement action plans tailor-made for you
Whether you manage organisations or assets, climate adaption planning and strategies can help you take short, medium and long-term actions to address physical, social and financial risks represented by a rapidly changing climate. Alongside robust net zero strategies, we can support you with tailored climate adaptation and action plans that fit your level of risk and ability to adapt.
Understand and report your climate risks
A comprehensive understanding of your climate risks – both physical and transitional, covering regulations, competitive advantage or other non-physical impacts – is a growing demand of stakeholders, investors and regulators. We can support your climate risk assessments through frameworks such as the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), now absorbed into wider International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) ESG reporting.
Make better, greener choices
Buildings are at the forefront of climate risks and our solutions to address them. Building design choices have a big impact on our ability to adapt to climate change. Our experts can support BREEAM-compliant or ESG-aligned real estate climate risk assessments, and action recommendations for new builds, refurbishments and complete asset portfolios.
Value & Impact
How we’ve helped others meet their challenges
UNITED KINGDOM
NET ZERO RETAIL FIT-OUT
Guiding NatWest towards net zero
We developed a strategic roadmap for achieving net zero carbon across the retail estate of NatWest, one of the UK’s biggest banks. Our approach, which embedded sustainability into NatWest’s branch refurbishment programme, has already delivered significant carbon reductions, setting a new standard for sustainability in the retail banking sector.
“The RLB sustainability team showed us what holistic good practice looks like when it came to a roadmap towards target net zero. Their knowledge of sustainability within the built environment is very strong, and their innovative approaches have set the bar for our sustainable fit-out practices going forward.”
Andrew Taylor
Design Manager, Retail Design, People and Transformation, NatWest Group
SUSTAINABILITY
INSIGHTS & PERSPECTIVES
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Future Thinking
Is the built environment ready for the digital revolution?
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4 Min Read Time
Digital capability is rapidly becoming one of the defining issues for the future of the built ...
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Market Research
Procurement Trends 2026
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3 Min Read Time
Now in its seventh edition, RLB’s annual Procurement Trends survey paints an accurate and ...
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Future Thinking
Beyond market-led redevelopment: A new path for Northern estate regeneration
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6 Min Read Time
For decades, estate regeneration in England has been shaped by a model that works best where land ...
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Market Research
RLB Construction Market Intelligence Q2 2026
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2 Min Read Time
The new edition of Construction Market Intelligence reflects a shifting and increasingly uncertain ...
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Capability
Building safety reform: the impact on team…
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6 Min Read Time
The last few years have brought welcome and long-overdue change to building safety reform in the ...
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Capability
ESG Report: We remain committed to delivering…
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2 Min Read Time
At a time when attitudes to ESG are changing around the world, we think it’s important ...
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SUSTAINABILITY
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