Impact 20x20 at Futurebuild 2025: Call for Impact

Impact 20x20

Call for Impact

Impact 20x20: Share Your Vision

For 20 years, since the first ‘Ecobuild’ event, we have been at the forefront of championing sustainability across the built and natural environment. Together, we’ve driven progress by building the knowledge and expertise needed to reshape the way we work and build. Now, as we celebrate two decades of leading change, Futurebuild 2025 invites you—the visionaries and change-makers—to submit your ideas for Impact 20×20. These dynamic, Pecha Kucha-style presentations will take place on each of our Impact Stages, continuing our shared legacy of innovation and impact.

Deadline for submissions extended! You now have until Friday 13th December 2024.

SUBMIT YOUR VISION

What is Impact 20x20?

In the Impact 20×20 sessions, you’ll present 20 slides, each displayed for 20 seconds, to outline your vision for change. Inspired by Pecha Kucha, this fast-paced, storytelling format keeps ideas concise and engaging.

The 20×20 structure ensures a sharp focus on key points, making it perfect for sharing your innovative solutions, case studies, new research, or game-changing initiatives that align with our theme of making impact.

This call for impact is open to researchers, designers, consultants, policy-makers, and other professionals dedicated to driving change. We’re looking for bold ideas, both large and small, that can inspire action and shape the future of the built and natural environment.

Deadline for submissions extended! You now have until Friday 13th December 2024. We will request Pecha Kucha slides if you are successful.

SUBMIT YOUR VISION

Impact stages

Successful proposers will have the opportunity to present on one of the Impact Stages at Futurebuild 2025:

Buildings: 5th March, 14:30
Energy: 4th March, 12:30
FutureX Digital Disruptors: 6th March, 11:30
Materials: 5th March, 11:30
Placemaking: 5th March, 16:30

The challenge is to deliver beautiful, net-zero, climate-resilient buildings with high safety and long-term maintenance standards.

Sponsored by HG Matthews and featuring insights from top organisations, this Impact Stage covers key aspects of design, including Passivhaus standards, modular construction, lighting, acoustics, and the Future Homes Standard—equipping you with essential tools for sustainable building.

As decarbonisation targets loom, reducing resource use, boosting efficiency, and increasing renewables are essential. Sponsored by Kensa and featuring insights from key organisations like Bioregional and CIBSE, this Impact Stage covers critical energy issues in construction, offering policy updates and practical tools to help you lead the industry’s low-carbon transition.

Material choice is vital for a circular economy, cutting carbon and boosting sustainability. Sponsored by Aggregate Industries, this Impact Stage—featuring insights from Bioregional, ICE, and UKGBC—focuses on selecting sustainable materials for new builds and retrofits. Discover how traceable supply chains and waste reduction drive greener projects and impactful leadership.

This Placemaking programme covers all built environment aspects beyond buildings. In 2025, the Placemaking Impact Stage, curated with partners like CIWEM, RSPB, and UKGBC, focuses on water management, urban biodiversity, and sustainable transport—providing strategies for resilient, connected urban spaces. Gain insights to enhance your projects and foster vibrant, sustainable communities.

New for Futurebuild 2025, the FutureX Digital Disruptors programme will showcase how construction technology can be used with purpose to create real impact. It’s not just about the latest tools—it’s about how technology can drive positive change for both society and the environment.

THE NATIONAL RETROFIT CONFERENCE

At the National Retrofit Conference, you’ll hear from leaders and pioneers in retrofitting who will share insights on making projects more sustainable, efficient, and future-proof. This year’s expanded programme is packed with practical sessions and thought leadership designed to inspire and empower you to drive change.

And don’t miss the Big Retrofit Challenge, where innovators will present groundbreaking ideas to solve pressing retrofit challenges. It’s your opportunity to engage with cutting-edge solutions that will redefine the future of retrofit.

testimonials

Hear from our community on how Futurebuild is making a positive impact.

I have come to Futurebuild to gain an insight on the latest information and how companies are working on their digital innovation for future developments. I’ve joined a digital seminar and it was really fruitful and insightful. I really like how the show was planned out and the stands are fascinating.

I’m an architect and it’s my first time at futurebuild. We recently started a new project so I’m here to look for new ideas and also see what’s going on in the industry. I’ve really enjoyed all the seminars and conferences I’ve attended so far, really knowledgeable and covering about net zero. Overall a good event.

Show seems to be very good. Seems to be what we want good diverse range of exhibitors. Have been visiting every year since last 5 years. Trend that have the most impact is Quality assurance and policy certification.

I come to the show every year I've been coming since the days of ecobuild. I work in sustainability on the renewable sky working mainly on solar. So I catch up with a lot of my London based customers here, It’s an interesting event for for sustainability professionals. So more or less glad to come.

So I came here today because I was speaker but at the same time I've been here four times already. What amazed me the most is that I can see the show growing and growing and kind of the good advancements that we are doing in sustainability and how that interacts with digitalisation and innovation is mind blowing, and it's a show that I recommend to anyone that is in the industry.

I’ve always come for the last 10 years because everyone I know is here and what I do is introduce people I know to each other, sort of like a wing man in a professional setting. The great thing about the sessions are the skills talk cos so much of it in this industry has to do with collaboration.

I visit Futurebuild because usually I am on a stand, so I am working on the show. It’s a great place to meet new ppl and catch up with exiting clients. The highlight for today was meeting the world’s nominated female best builder, Barbara Jones. So she’s been nominated by the CIOB and she’s an amazing force of nature. I suppose the biggest impact is the concept of net zero but no one really knows what it is as for different ppl it means different things. But there is the net zero carbon standard coming out so hopefully it will mean the same thing for everyone.