Sustainability
Beyond delivering excellent sustainable capability to each project, we offer Sustainability as a specific consultancy. Driving our impact and bringing holistic thinking across disciplines.
We have focused on embodied carbon for many years and know how to assess it within our structures, but this doesn't go far enough. We believe that being involved in early decisions with our clients is where we can make real progress and Impact with greater returns.
The challenge of sustainability often requires broader thinking than just a creative response, so we must always consider economics, legislation and policy as other keys to unlock the problems. It’s why we pride ourselves on working collaboratively with other practices, academia and research institutions.
Sustainability services
- Reuse studies
- Condition surveys
- Strategy & planning support
- Pre-redevelopment audits
- Circular economy statements
- Pre-demolition audits
- Adaptability studies
- Design for disassembly guidance
- BREEAM
- WELL
- LEED
- Living Building Challenge
- Embodied carbon optioneering
- Whole life carbon assessments
- Bespoke carbon studies
- Portfolio carbon management
- GHG reporting
- Social value
- Net Zero Carbon guidance
- Corporate ESG strategy
- Preliminary ecology appraisals
- Urban Greening Factor
- Biodiversity Net Gain
- Ecological enhancements
Our Structural Carbon Tool
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Involvement in early decisions is where we can make real progress and impact, with greater returns both commercially and environmentally.
Associate Director - Sustainability