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SKArating helps client, design, construction and supply teams in the built environment deliver interior fit-out projects sustainably. The system and methodology integrates a set of industry agreed good practice measures into daily project delivery. Founded on practical good practice measures and an open-source tool, the SKA process not only helps you to set practical goals at the start of the project, but also helps you to monitor and to get awarded at the end for delivering against the target. This consistent, industry led approach, is designed to help support systemic change in the fit-out process.
Our Mission?
SKArating exists to help you strengthen and improve the sustainability of interior fit-outs and refurbishments across commercial, retail and higher education spaces.
We want to support you in creating truly sustainable environments; with environmental, social and economic impacts all accounted for and driven to high performance. To do that, we will connect and align roles, organisations and initiatives along the full life-cycle of spaces, helping to create systems that deliver to Net Zero Carbon and 100% Circularity.
This updated SKArating roadmap outlines how the system is evolving across the three pillars of Sustainability — Environmental, Social & Wellbeing, and Economics & Value — through to 2030. It will be the first scheme globally to be offering all three assessments of sustainability under one scheme and system. We are extremely excited to be enabling this and supporting our clients and teams efforts to make sustainability easier and more impacting in real terms.
What’s new, and what’s next?
Environmental:
- Offices v2.0 is launching summer 2025 and Offices 2.1 by 2029
- Higher Education v2.0 and Retail v2.0 launching end of 2025 and early 2026 respectively.
- The new Multi-Residential Accommodation scheme is starting development in Q2 2025 and the industry will be invited soon to participate.
- A focus on alignment with Net Zero, circularity, and climate resilience driving all the environmental schemes.
Social & Wellbeing:
- New scheme for Offices and Higher Education launching v1.0 by 2026 and v1.2 by 2030. More sector schemes to be added following initial consultations before 2030.
- Bringing occupant health, equity, and community impact to the forefront and ensuring a fit-for-purpose social and wellbeing scheme for the interior fit-out sector is developed.
Economics & Value:
- A first-of-its-kind focus on economic sustainability for fit-outs — v1.0 due by 2030
- Helping teams consider lifecycle value, not just capital cost and space performance, all under one scheme.
- Leveraging Life-cycle Costing (LCC) and performance efforts with industry partners, already active and opening doors to the interior fit-out sector to integrate in a sustainable way.
Ultimately, SKArating has been built by our community, all working in the sector and keen to drive change, built as a system that we can all use to hold ourselves to a long-term vision. A vision where a triple bottom line approach is easy to align to, completely accessible in any fit out, and which delivers real value and positive impact.
SKArating is evolving and growing to meet the challenge – and opportunity – of a regenerative future.
We would love you to join the conversations that are driving us and open new ones; we wish to include all who share our vision of a better future and help understand and address any barriers you may have. We wish to ensure the scheme works for everyone and helps us collectively deliver the change needed.
Join us at an event in the near future, as advertised in our socials, to find out more and talk to the committee, or feel free to email us your thoughts and interest topic at [email protected] to pass on to relevant parties.