Dr Gregory Borne is a Chartered Surveyor, Chartered

Environmentalist, researcher and sustainability specialist with more than 25 years' experience working across sustainable development, the environment, land, property and the built environment.

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He founded Sustain Surveying to bring together professional surveying expertise with sustainability research, policy and practice. His work explores how sustainability can be understood and applied across the traditional boundaries of surveying, particularly in relation to land, property and construction.

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Greg is a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS), a RICS Registered Valuer, a Chartered Environmentalist and a member of the Institution of Environmental Sciences. Alongside Sustain Surveying, he has an established academic career in sustainable development and currently works at Falmouth University, where his research examines sustainability and governance from local communities through to international institutions.

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His professional and research work has involved engagement with international, national and local government, NGOs, communities and businesses. His areas of particular interest include sustainable development, environmental management, natural capital, valuation, climate and resilience, local governance and the ways in which sustainability is changing professional practice.

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Greg has published extensively on sustainable development and related environmental issues. His most recent book, Local Government and Sustainable Development in the UK: Engaging the Local to Achieve the Global, was published by Routledge in 2026. His work has also contributed to RICS professional knowledge, including sustainability-related content for RICS iSurv and articles examining natural capital and valuation.

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Why Sustain Surveying?

Sustain Surveying developed from a simple proposition: sustainability increasingly cuts across the established disciplines of surveying rather than sitting within any one of them.

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Land, property and construction decisions are increasingly shaped by environmental change, climate risk, natural capital, resource use, technology, regulation and changing expectations of sustainable development.

Sustain Surveying brings these issues together, combining professional surveying knowledge with research and analysis to provide insight beyond the horizon — helping clients and built-environment professionals understand emerging sustainability issues and their implications for practice​

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