• Exploring Passive Cooling Strategies

    With temperatures soaring, let’s explore some sustainable design strategies that help keep buildings cool without consuming excessive energy.

    Sustainable Solutions for Summer
  • “The most important way to conserve is not to demolish and not to build new, but to restore and repair.”

    Examining the importance of reusing buildings to enable sustainable urban growth with Brinda Somaya

    Podcast: Guardian of the built and unbuilt
  • “We need to reconnect with ourselves, and we have to reconnect with nature again”

    Võ Trọng Nghia from VTN Architects explores how meditation is the key to healing ourselves and saving the planet.

    Podcast: Calm the mind, connect with place
  • “We want to make people accidental environmentalists”

    Liz Minné from Interface dives into the innovation behind the carbon-negative carpet tile

    Podcast: Raising the floor on innovative carbon solutions

From smart ideas to real-world practice

A showcase of projects that contribute to the transformation of the building sector

The Holcim Foundation has collected leading-edge examples on how the best ideas in sustainable design can be transformed into real-world examples of sustainable construction, including through the Holcim Awards competition.

We share these examples to bridge individuals and expert communities from across different disciplines and different regions of the world so that best practice and emerging ideas for a sustainable built environment can be more rapidly shared and implemented.

Focus on solutions of interest using the filters below:

Explore our solutions (Filter)

Keyword

Use the free-text word search to find solutions on a specific topic or focus.

See more

Idea

Browse our array of solutions across critical themes related to sustainable design and construction.

See more

Country

Take a tour around the world for different perspectives that blend local needs in a highly contextual approach.

See more

Browse across key concepts in sustainable construction

Updates on the leading-edge thinking and best practice solutions that are building a better world

Resource efficiency & circularity

Ecosystem resilience & restoration

Social equity