Triple Award Shortlisting Recognises Our Commitment to Better Business and Better Places

We are delighted to announce that Sustainable Acoustics Ltd has been shortlisted for three major awards recognising our work in sustainability, responsible business practice and environmental acoustics.

This year we have been shortlisted in:

• The sustainability category at the Winchester Business Excellence Awards

• The sustainability category at the ANC Awards for our B Corporation journey

• The environmental noise category at the ANC Awards for Grievesons Yard & Cumberland Arms – delivering Agent of Change, a project jointly delivered with Apex Acoustics Ltd. (Here’s the link to the project case study on our website). 

Being recognised across both sustainability and technical project categories is especially meaningful to us because it reflects the direction we believe the built environment sector must continue to move towards — combining technical excellence with wider environmental and social responsibility.

Winchester Business Excellence Awards  – Sustainable Business Award Finalist

To us sustainability has never been a separate workstream. Since Sustainable Acoustics Ltd was co-founded in 2014 we have delivered sustainability as an industry change maker: embedding sustainability into our own operations and projects, whilst also changing the wider field of acoustics.

Our shortlisting in the Winchester Business Excellence Awards sustainability category recognises this important work. We promote acoustics that works hard to not only improve inclusivity and accessibility, but to restore human health and aid regeneration of our living systems. We are very excited to be shortlisted for this year’s Sustainable Business in the Winchester Excellence Awards. We wish the other two finalists’ luck. The Winchester Business Excellence Awards are announced at a Gala Dinner on 18 June 2026.

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ANC Sustainability Award Shortlisting – Our B Corporation journey

We are proud that our B Corporation journey has been shortlisted within the sustainability category of the ANC Awards – a prestigious awards in the acoustics industry.

As a newly certified B Corporation, we have worked to embed sustainability and social value into the way we operate as a company, from governance and staff wellbeing through to environmental impacts, UN Sustainable Development Goal delivery and embedding environmental and social, transparency and accountability considerations deep into our company DNA.  

As expectations around climate resilience, social value and ESG continue to evolve, we believe professional consultancies have an important responsibility to lead by example and demonstrate that commercial success and positive impact can – and should, go hand-in-hand. We are obviously looking forward to hearing who has won the category: also we are very excited about our onward journey as the first independent acoustic consultancy, who is a certified B Corporation, within the UK acoustic industry.

The ANC Award Winners are announced in Manchester on 16 June 2026.

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Grievesons Yard, Cumberland Arms and the Importance of “Agent of Change”

Our third shortlisting is for the Grievesons Yard project in the environmental noise category at the ANC Awards, delivered in collaboration with Apex Acoustics Ltd.

The project demonstrates the importance of the “Agent of Change” principle - an approach which seeks to ensure that new development takes responsibility for managing potential impacts on existing noise-sensitive or noise-generating uses.

This principle is becoming increasingly important as towns and cities seek to accommodate growth, regeneration and higher-density living while also protecting the character and vitality of existing communities and businesses. Agent of change is a vital tool to protect our night-time cultural heritage - protecting the venues, access to work for young people and vibrant nights out: as well as protecting future communities.   

Projects such as Grievesons Yard and The Cumberland Arms demonstrate how thoughtful acoustic design can support sustainable development, enable regeneration, protect our cultural heritage and help avoid conflict between existing and future uses. Regenerative acoustics is about creating places that function successfully for people over the long term – delivering culture, connection and community.

Sustainability and Acoustics

We believe the art and science of sound is one of the most underused levers we have for creating a world that is healthier, fairer and more sustainable. These awards shortlistings reflect the growing understanding of the connection between acoustics, sustainability, health and placemaking. They reinforce our belief that the profession has an increasingly important role to play in shaping healthy soundscapes for the future and a better built environment for all.

We congratulate all the fellow finalists.