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B Corp at TFT: what is it?
B Corp is an independent designation requiring high standards of verified social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency from the businesses it certifies.
In order to achieve certification, a company must:
- Demonstrate high social and environmental performance by achieving a B Impact Assessment score of 80 or above.
- Make a legal commitment by changing their corporate governance structure to be accountable to all stakeholders, not just shareholders.
- Exhibit transparency by allowing information about their performance measured against B Lab’s standards to be publicly available on their B Corp profile on B Lab’s website.
Why did TFT choose to get B Corp certified?
From our beginnings, as a firm of three surveyors in 1973, TFT has always been ambitious. Our reputation for forward-thinking advice and pushing industry standards is why we’re trusted to support our clients time and again.
As we grow, so does our impact on the world. To make that as broad and as positive as it can be, we need a holistic view of impact, and a trajectory for continual improvement. B Corp provides both of those things within its framework, backed up by a rigorous assessment process.
What is TFT improving now?
The B Corp framework measures factors ranging from employee benefits and charitable giving, to ethical supply chain management and environmental impact. Its methodology is based on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which you can find out more about here.
These are distilled in to five categories. We’re already showing progress against each of these, with more to do in the months and years ahead.
- Governance
- Workers
- Community
- Environment
- Customers
We aspire to the highest standards of social and environmental performance, and our people work to do the right thing for our business, the clients who rely on our advice, and the communities we support.
Our culture is supportive and progressive, enabling all our team to feel comfortable being themselves and thriving at work. A big part of this is enabling everyone to take the time to volunteer and support causes they are passionate about, as teams and individuals, each year.
What does this mean for our clients?
Peace of mind for those who expect their suppliers to meet high levels of social and environmental performance, and to exceed those over time.
Holistic understanding: our advice comes not just from 50 years of building knowledge, but first-hand experience of taking on social and environmental performance challenges as a business.
The same dedication from our team: to give the best advice and to keep improving our work and the performance of our industry too.
What’s next on our B Corp journey?
Certification is just the start! We’re already working to improve and widen our positive impacts. TFT’s dedication to fulfilling that promise begins with how we run our own business to maximise positive impacts and do the best work we can with our clients and our wider community of stakeholders.
One of our next priorities is to get our science-based carbon reduction target and action plan verified by The Science Based Targets Institute.
Please feel free to get in touch with our team if you have questions or would like to discuss our journey to certification.
TFT’s first B Corp Impact Report is here. Click the link to view it.
We will issue these reports annually, and will re-assess with B Corp to quantify those improvements in 2026.
Key contact
Seth Love-Jones
Seth is a Bristol-based Senior Director and a member of the TFT Executive with business operations responsibilities. He provides strategic surveying, construction and property services to clients and specialises in the retail, logistics, trade counter, office, leisure and technology sectors. His expertise is in technical due diligence (TDD), dilapidations and programme management.
Being a chartered building surveyor with a mixed background as both a consultant building surveyor and as a client side corporate real estate manager, Seth combines the skills to provide a unique perspective and a valuable interface with client organisations.
His most notable instructions include the programme management of fire safety risk assessment and improvement for a wide range of clients and property types. He has also managed and delivered the TDD on the majority of acquisitions in the UK and Europe for clients including Amazon and Screwfix’s over the past 10 years. For Screwfix, he provided many aspects of property support taking a fledgling business with less than 50 trade counters to a market leader with more than 600.In addition, he has other current working relationships with clients including Wincanton, EQT Exeter, Grosvenor and more.
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.
Lisa Gunn
Lisa is Director of Business Development and Marketing, based in our London office. Following an MBA in Edinburgh, Lisa has spent more than 20 years in the real estate industry, helping international firms with business development. Lisa’s role at TFT combines detailed client knowledge with wider industry understanding to cultivate and grow our client relationships for mutual success.
Lisa also drives TFT’s business development, client care and marketing strategy, not to mention our ever-increasing peloton of cyclists.
Lisa is a passionate advocate for diversity. She is a mentor and coaches underrepresented figures in the industry to stand out and be heard amid wider industry efforts to grow a richer talent pool.
Our promise
The certification recognises the value and impact of the advice we offer to clients to improve their buildings, as well as the emphasis we place on growing our business as a force for good. B Corp certification is about much more than winning a badge; it represents an ongoing commitment to improve. We’re now part of a global community of ambitious organisations, with whom we will work to advance our own standards.We make buildings work better
