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Background | What is the SIT?
Investment in our existing buildings and heritage contributes to positive outcomes for people and places across a huge number of areas, including employment, the environment, good places for communities, healthy town centres, and homes. Sustainable investment is also important as current economic conditions and climatic impacts increase the challenges felt by all, including our existing built environment.
The Sustainable Investment Tool - or SIT - was developed to help visualise the different positive aspects associated with existing buildings and their related projects. The SIT can help us plan a sustainable future, have greater understanding of our places, and increase their potential and resilience.
Exploring the different values of a place can help identify new ways of thinking, promote greater advocacy for projects, and perhaps enhance new funding and investment opportunities.
Using the SIT can help start conversations around the wider benefits and potential that our existing buildings and places can deliver. And, it can also highlight the positive outcomes for Wellbeing, Climate, Culture, and Economy.
Who is the SIT for?
Why would I use the SIT?
To understand more about your asset/project
As a discussion tool – for a group, organisation, or community
For advocacy internal to your group or organisation – enabling people within your group or organisation to understand what a project can achieve across a range of areas
External advocacy - enabling people outwith your group or organisation to understand what a project can achieve across a range of areas
To help illustrate positive outcomes for a fundraising bid (heritage specific funding – or funding from other areas)
Investment decision making (if you’re an organisation owning many assets, you may use this tool to consider wider asset management aspects)
As the SIT develops, we’d love to hear how you’ve used it
– you can contact us here.