Back in 2017, the Mayor of London announced the need for at least 50,000 new homes per year in the capital.

‘It’s a bit of a team spirit, really,’ confirms Adam.. Paul Highton is located nearby with other key members of the Circle Team, including the Head of Operations and the Hospital Director.‘What I really like is that there’s no segregation.’ he says.

It allows people to interact with each other… Anybody can come in and just have that conversation with us.’.In other words, at Circle Reading, there is the dual benefit of both a sense of community, as well as a sense of peacefulness.Wendy Bonard-Williams says that her favourite area of the hospital is the glass walkway up on the second and third floor.

‘It’s in a big figure eight,’ she says.‘Hardly anyone goes down there and it’s just a complete glass wall so you can see out...see across to the hotel and things like that.’ She talks about the quietness of the space.

‘You can literally go up there for five minutes and escape and you won’t see another person… So that’s quite nice,’ she says, laughing.’.

Raj Goel sums up the general mood about Circle’s Reading facility.RIBA represents architecture and CIBSE represents engineers.

Then there’s the London Energy Transformation Initiative (LETI) and networks like Architects Declare and Architects Climate Action Network (ACAN).The latter are more voluntary organisations, aiming to demystify some of the complexity around net-zero.

They’re trying to push things from a legislation perspective.Legislation is important, because it leads to clear guidance which industry professionals can use in their day-to-day work.