REVIEWS

I’ve got some great new business leads particularly in terms of tech solutions at the asset level around real estate. I had a couple of innovative new companies who’ve approached me and I'm meeting just good consultants in the marketplace.

I’m just fascinated to hear the story behind other people. There's lots of stalls and opportunity to see companies, but really, it's the talks that captivate me.   

This collection of people: everyone's here with the same approach, the same attitude of how can we address things and improve our planet. And hopefully learning a few stories about how other people have overcome those challenges I think is really, really exciting.   

I personally feel very passionately about sustainability and I work for a company where it's something that is very ingrained in what we do. We’re developers, if we don't take sustainability seriously, I don't know who will, but it's very much central to our responsibility. 

There's a lot of really good specialists here and it’s taking all of our knowledge to the next level. So it’s really about sharing knowledge, and I think FOOTPRINT's really good for that.

FOOTPRINT brings together a broad array of industry experts in one place to share ideas, to present projects and to really connect with one another around how we’re going to challenge the status quo around sustainability. 
 
What’s great is to see how concepts are being executed in the real world, which gives everyone else a practical understanding around how to achieve the same goals that are being achieved elsewhere. And I think that’s incredibly valuable for me but also for the rest of the industry.

I’m here to see the case studies, I’m here to see the enlightened clients, I’m here to see what the latest thinking is amongst designers, so that we can start to engage with some of that and use it and showcase it on our projects and hear about that best practice.  

The USP, I think it is getting together the best brains in the built environment at the moment and finding out what the best practice is and sharing that knowledge and getting some really good, key examples you can then apply and use on your projects.  

We're here today because we need to be part of a conversation. We all know we've got to change. The question is how we change and that's only established when we all come together to talk and collaborate on finding the right solutions. At Artus we're focused on getting the solutions to the market to use. So coming here to listen to what those demands and market shifts are is really why we've turned up.   

The exciting thing is seeing the passion of the people here of wanting to create the change. There's so many great topics of conversation and the mix of people who have turned up creates that really collaborative atmosphere to get better outcomes.

Footprint is always exciting, full of ideas, full of conversation. We've heard some amazing stories from case studies on planning for waste reduction on really, really sophisticated, pre-demolition, pre-refurbishment auditing. Just conversations between professionals who really care about what they're doing: it's always a buzz, it’s really good.  

This event is full of people you want to meet. I saw colleagues of central government today. I've seen local authorities. From our point of view, those are clients of ours. But I've also seen, from the waste portal point of view, I've seen people from other software providers we know. I've seen construction companies. I've seen consultants. I've seen all people from the built environment industry, investors and developers.

An extremely interesting event. We made new connectiosn and reconnected with past customers.  

It allows us to grow on our appeal to structural engineers, architects, and developers. The talks that are taking place are extremely interesting and in-depth, at all levels. So, that means that when you get out of the event, you've learned a lot on sustainability.  It's really abouthow the construction industry is looking at material, how they are manufactured, how they install and their carbon footprint. So for us, it's about material and how to reconsider material in modern construction.

t’s a great event. Coming to FOOTPRINT is handy to be able to bump into lots of other people working in this space. There’s a lot of people with similar problems, similar opportunities and similar goals to us. 

It’s a really good chance to meet other like-minded people, talk about the things that you’re doing, share the things that they’re doing and then usually get an opportunity to work together as well with the people that come to this event.  

I've come to every FOOTPRINT+ so far and the reason why I want to come, the reason why the Institute of Structural Engineers wants to be here, is so that we can stay at the forefront of what the real estate industry is talking about when it comes to decarbonizing materials, decarbonizing buildings, working in new ways and so on. So, I come to keep my knowledge up to date and to make sure that our members could learn from what's happening here.  

On leaving this event, I will be better educated around what sustainability means in terms of buildings. I'm hoping to come away having learned about new materials, new ways of working, having learned from what everyone else is doing at the moment in the industry, in real life, and being able to take that away and help others learn from that too.   

This is a great place to listen, most importantly, and learn what everyone in the industry is doing. This is a great group of people that care about the environment, are doing something, and the projects are always interesting. We always learn a lot through the sharing of experiences.   

This is a great place to really get around what the industry is doing, how it's evolving, the weaknesses, the things that went wrong and how we can do better next time.   

You have developers, architects, some guys from the finance sector, and then consultants. So everyone has a different point of view, a different experience, and come together into something that is meaningful and really shows how to push the industry forward.

We’re exhibiting here as part of Barrett Steel. It might seem unusual for Barrett Steel, a steel company to be at an event like FOOTPRINT, but we're here, not as an opportunity for us to sell product - we're actually here to learn. We want to share some of the innovation that we've brought to the steel industry to decarbonise, and but also to learn and understand what people are looking to do moving forward.  

We've made lots of interesting connections. The interaction has come from a variety of sources. Some of it we expected, but a lot of it has taken us by surprise, where people are really interested in some of the things that we're doing as an organisation. So it's been a great couple of days and already we're looking forward to next year.

We're here at Footprint to mingle with the industry, listen to the discussions, meet other colleagues, clients, and just find be part of the discussion in what's happening.    

The most unique thing is the different kind of breakout spaces and the different areas and the conversations that have been happening. I've really enjoyed some of the retrofit discussions and areas on that stage. But also looking at the financing elements for biodiversity and social value. It's been a great combination of aspects.

So I'm here with Environment Bank, we have a network of habitat banks all around England and we are at FOOTPRINT to get to know some of the developers and understand a little bit more about the marketplace, and really just educate people who may be interested in biodiversity net gain since the regulation became mandatory in February.

I think I've learned there's a lot of innovation out there. I think we're at the bleeding edge of a wonderful time for everybody in this industry. And I think there's a lot of ideas, a lot of creativity around how particularly we can do carbon credits or different kinds of nature shares and things like that, and how we can actually make that into a proper thing. And it sounds like we're trying to do different things, and we're very much at the forefront and the beginning of it but a lot of people are trying to head in that direction. A lot of people are trying to figure it out.

So my, my biggest takeaway is that everyone's, kind of, going in the right direction but on a different journey. 

I am here at Footprint, it's my third year now that I've been so I’ve been coming every year. It's now come to London, which is just opposite my office as well. I just love the atmosphere here. It's really exciting. There's lots of energy. There's lots of ideas, and lots of like-minded people, that, you know, I wouldn't miss it really, to come and see them.  

This year I've really focused, I’ve really liked the number of stages and the different, the variety of different talks that's been going on. So I've really tried to focus in on things that I don't know a lot of, rather than the things, I mean, I do a lot of. So, I've been learning much more about novel materials, about procurement, funding and ESG, and all those things. It's been really exciting to go on a bit of a learning journey this year.  

I think the unique selling point is the quality of the, the talks and the presentations here. Everyone is really knowledgeable about what they're talking about and it's, there’s some amazing case studies and there's some real life examples that you can get excited about, learn from, use on your projects as well to inform what is possible.