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This webinar presented on Tuesday 19 May explored the delivery of a sustainability-led housing project through a project management lens, using the Aanandaa Permaculture Project as a real-world case study.

This was a joint webinar from the ºìÌÒÊÓƵ Sustainability Interest Network and ºìÌÒÊÓƵ London Network.

Rather than focusing on the completed building, the session examined the project lifecycle, highlighting how sustainability ambitions were translated into practical delivery decisions.

The talk focused on project challenges, trade-offs and decision-making under constraint, including balancing sustainability goals with budget, programme, skills availability, and coordination across multiple teams. It examined how design choices, material selection, and construction sequencing evolved during delivery and how changes were managed as the project progressed.

A key focus of the session was transferability. The project is used to demonstrate how a permaculture mindset can be applied incrementally and pragmatically across projects of different scales and contexts, without the need to replicate the original project in full. Learning is framed in alignment with recognised project frameworks, including the Triple Bottom Line and P5 (People, Planet, Profit, Process, Product), ensuring relevance to a broad range of project environments.

The session concluded with a facilitated discussion and Q&A, enabling attendees to reflect on how these lessons can be applied within their own organisations and projects.
 
Benefits of engaging with the resources
•    Gain insight into delivering sustainability-led projects under real-world constraints
•    Understand how project decisions and trade-offs influence sustainability outcomes
•    Learn how sustainability principles align with established project frameworks
•    Acquire practical, transferable lessons applicable across the built environment.

Webinar resources

Manisha has kindly allowed their presented material to be made available for viewing. The , and , are now available in our ºìÌÒÊÓƵ resources area and also embedded below for reference.

This webinar content is suitable for professionals with any level of experience, working across construction, engineering, sustainability and the built environment, including project managers, architects, engineers, and consultants.

Speaker

Manisha Lath Gupta, Founder, Aanandaa Permaculture Project -

Manisha is a sustainability champion, a permaculture practitioner and teacher. She is the founder of Aanandaa Permaculture Project - a place of learning & inspiration from the natural world. Under this project, she has transformed 12 acres of degenerated land into a lush green permaculture food forest through rainwater harvesting, topsoil regeneration and extensive tree plantation. She has also built a sustainable house using natural materials like earth, stone and lime.

Manisha is an experienced marketing professional with 25 years’ experience across FMCG, Banking and Consumer Tech industries. She has worked with brands like Unilever, Colgate Palmolive, Axis Bank, and Uber. She is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management.