Bioregional wins The William Sutton Prize for Sustainability 2025

We're very excited to announce that we've won the William Sutton Prize for Sustainability 2025!

The prestigious prize, run by Clarion Housing Group, aims to turn groundbreaking concepts into real-world solutions that make lasting improvements to the built environment and local communities.

Why we were recognised

We won the award for our new Retrofit Automation Tool, which takes away the painful, often messy work of retrofit data crunching, delivering net-zero pathways 3 times quicker.

Built on actual data (rather than just theoretical models), our tool can process even the messiest of datasets, integrate them with geographic property data and smart meter readings, and then generate bold but achievable decarbonisation pathways based on real-world performance.

The tool (when coupled with our expert team working alongside you) compresses what might normally be three months of arduous manual analysis into clear, actionable strategies, enabling ambitious housing associations to move quickly, implement solutions and cut their carbon emissions, all while freeing up asset managers to move faster and make decisions with confidence.

It complements platforms such as Parity Projects by unlocking smart meter-level insights and supports both domestic and non-domestic properties. For industry-leading housing groups such as Clarion, it offers a new data-driven route to estate-wide decarbonisation and retrofit programmes.

Our Retrofit Automation Tool in a nutshell:

Live performance insights – it links real-time energy data with powerful mapping and property intelligence systems
Democratises data – it makes detailed energy data accessible to asset owners, not just specialists
Clarity and confidence – it provides asset managers with clear, actionable decarbonisation plans based on real-world performance
Seamless integration – it complements existing platforms like Parity Projects to enhance, not replace
Enhanced accuracy – it moves beyond just assumptions with real-time data and machine learning insights
Saves time and money – it cuts the cost and complexity of retrofit planning dramatically

For innovative asset owners, it opens up a new route to achieving portfolio-wide decarbonisation - grounded in reality and ready for action.

We’ve seen first-hand how housing associations and asset owners struggle with the complexity and delays of planning large-scale retrofits. Our tool is designed to cut through these barriers, unlocking a clear and confident path to impactful implementation, and we hope that winning The William Sutton Prize will help accelerate our progress.
Lewis Knight, Director of Sustainable Places, Bioregional

Who else won?

Everyone on the Sustainability shortlist is doing incredible things in the built environment – and all would have been worthy winners. We'd like to congratulate the other two winners, Eyesea Green Limited and Agricycle Innovation Ltd, along with the other nominees, NoMAD, Material Cultures and WeCanMake.

A huge thanks to the judges:
Chair: Jock Lennox, Chair of the Clarion Housing Group Board
Bukky Bird, Group Sustainability Director of Barratt Developments
Greg Fitzgerald, Chair and Chief Executive of Vistry Group
Tara Gbolade, Co-Founding Director of Gbolade Design Studio | Architects
Peter Murray OBE, Co-Founder of New London Architecture
Miles Lewis, Director of Sustainability at Clarion Housing Group
Nick Wood, Regional Managing Director (South) at Clarion Housing Group

And a special mention to British potter and ceramic designer, Keith Brymer Jones, who handcrafted the trophies, each of which is unique.

Our judging panel had a tough time narrowing a record-breaking number of applications down to five very worthy winners across our two categories, and we’re excited to work with them to open doors and accelerate progress.
Clare Miller, Chief Executive of Clarion Housing Group

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