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ESG at TFT

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TFT was founded on the principles of education, opportunity, sustainability and community, and these values remain at the core of everything we do.

While our impact on the world grows with the scale of our client services, we decided to become B Corp certified in 2022. Certification has allowed us to combine our growth with continual improvements in the way we do business on many fronts.

TFT is B Corp Certified – find out more about B Corp and what it means for us, here

Community support

While our team works hard for our clients, we provide a suite of health & wellbeing support and personal development opportunities to help everyone find balance and progression in their role.

Beyond our business we are proactive in engaging young people and career-changers all around the country, to build the professional community of the future and create new opportunities in our industry.

We also make space for our team to take the time to volunteer and support causes they are passionate about, as teams or as individuals, throughout the year.

Decarbonising our business

We advise our clients on decarbonising their developments and existing buildings, so we recognise that businesses of every size and type can do more to monitor and manage the emissions of their operations, their assets and their supply chains.

As a signatory of the British Property Federation’s (BPF) Net Zero Pledge, we're committed to achieving net zero carbon by 2050. We project that our scope 1 and 2 carbon emissions will decrease over the next five years to 8 tCO2e by 2030, a reduction of 80% and significantly ahead of our SBTi target.

‍Find out more about TFT's carbon reduction plan, here.

Key contact

Mat Lown

Mat is TFT's Chief ESG & Knowledge Officer. He's a chartered building surveyor and a chartered project management surveyor with more than 25 years of working with many leading property companies, investors and asset managers.

Over the last 10 years, Mat’s focus has shifted towards sustainability and in 2007 he founded TFT’s sustainability consultancy. Mat and his team help TFT’s clients to understand the specific sustainability risks and opportunities when making property investment and development decisions. Ultimately, he would like to see sustainability becoming part of what constitutes best practice.

Mat’s passionate about sustainability and finds that writing and lecturing regularly for RICS and for other organisations is a means of expressing and sharing this enthusiasm. Mat’s articles regularly appear in Construction News, Estates Gazette, RICS and Property Week, and he is a lead author of the RICS Guidance Note, ‘Sustainability – improving performance in existing buildings’. Also of note is Mat’s thesis, ‘Building a Greener Future’, which was published by the CIOB in 1991. He is a member of several sustainability committees including the British Property Federation, British Council for Offices, CIC and Revo.

Mat is interested in how great buildings and places can create delight and he particularly enjoys the creative re-use of existing buildings. The South Bank is a great example of how a place can be rejuvenated by considered new interventions and careful restoration of the original building fabric.

Get in touch with Mat