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Swift Awareness Week: How the construction industry can support swifts
27 June 2025
Swift Awareness Week starts this Saturday, 28th June 2025, bringing together the UK in celebration of these extraordinary summer visitors.
Nesting sites
Unfortunately, the loss of natural nesting sites is a constant challenge. However, there are ways you can help to mitigate this, such as:
- Installing nest boxes attached to your home, ideally under the eaves.
- Considering integrating Swift Bricks into new buildings and homes. A clay swift box, designed to match the external façade of your building, offers a self-contained, safe, and weather-resistant way to provide a home for these birds.
Food for Swifts
- Ensuring there are plenty of insects to support our swifts. Plus, it means more beautiful flowers, so it’s a win-win!
- Planting single-flowered plants is a perfect way to attract insects.
- Avoiding the use of pesticides and herbicides. A growing number of farmers are turning towards wildflower strips in and around their crops as a chemical-free way to reduce pest infestation and attract pollinators, which indirectly helps the swifts.
How the construction industry can support swifts
In a recent article, Emily Landsborough, Head of ESG at Ibstock, discusses the steps housebuilders and building manufacturers are taking to safeguard the UK's biodiversity and questions whether legislating certain building materials in new homes could protect this beloved British bird facing extinction.
We discuss how housebuilders are uniting in support of this challenge, and caught up with Hannah Bourne-Taylor, a nature author and campaigner, on the work she’s doing in support of one of the UK’s most beloved species.
Read the article here: How specifying the right building materials in new housing could help red-listed birds
How you can get involved
To find out more about how you can get involved in the Swift Awareness Week visit the RSPB website.
Learn more about how Ibstock Ecohabitat solutions are supporting nesting sites in the built environment.
Also, find out more about our biodiversity programmes and how WE ARE supporting our customers as well as protecting the land on our estates.
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