The built environment is the UK's largest economic sector — 25% of UK GVA (£568bn), 1 in 8 jobs, and £168bn in exports. It's twice the size of financial services.
And yet government doesn't recognise it as one sector. Policy that shapes our industry is split across housing, infrastructure, planning, skills, transport, energy and investment — with no single, joined-up approach.
That's why we're backing One Built Environment: a campaign calling for formal recognition of the built environment as one connected sector within the UK Industrial Strategy.
One sector. One voice. #1BuiltEnvironment
1 in 8 UK jobs. £568bn in GVA. £168bn in exports.
The built environment isn't a niche industry — it's one of the UK's biggest economic engines. So why does government still treat it as a patchwork of separate sectors, each with its own policy, its own department, its own priorities?
We're calling for that to change. One Built Environment is asking for formal recognition as one connected sector within the UK Industrial Strategy — because a joined-up sector needs a joined-up policy approach.
#1BuiltEnvironment
I work in [team/discipline], and most days I see first-hand how fragmented policy slows down good projects — [insert a short, real example if you have one].
That's why I'm backing One Built Environment, NLA's campaign for formal recognition of the built environment as one connected sector within the UK Industrial Strategy.
We're 25% of UK GVA and 1 in 8 jobs in this country. It's time policy reflected that.
#1BuiltEnvironment
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One Built Environment is calling for the built environment to be formally recognised as one connected sector within the UK Industrial Strategy — aligning policy across housing, infrastructure, planning, skills, transport, energy and investment.
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