Sustainability and energy
Our specialist team works with each and every one of our clients to achieve positive and lasting legacies for their projects, plans and organisations.
Lifecycle sustainability services
- Sustainability strategies, C-suite engagement and buy-in ESG, net zero, decarbonisation, circular economy
- Masterplanning and planning sustainability statements
- Climate resilience and adaptation, and future proofing strategies
- Whole life thinking (including light and deep retrofit, repurposing and ‘end of first life’ strategies)
- Best practice sustainable procurement and value chain engagement / incentivisation
- Sustainability briefing, design, programming, detailing, construction and monitoring strategies, action plans and data modelling
- Whole life carbon and cost analysis
- Circular economy, resource efficiency and waste management solutions
- Climate change risk, resilience and adaptation assessments and advice
- Industry certification (BREEAM, DREAM, WELL, EPCs, LCEA, Passivhaus / EnerPHit, WELL)
- Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE) services
Low carbon retrofit and funding
- Low carbon intervention feasibility studies
- Salix funding advice and applications for Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme (PSDS)
- Low Carbon Skills Funding (LCSF)advice and applications
- Full support to and technical reviews of decarbonisation funding and grant claim submissions
- Application delivery and reviews
- Energy efficiency through heating, lighting and building fabric upgrades
- Payback period analysis
- Interim and post-commissioning / installation on-site energy performance audits
Energy and thermal modelling
- Low and zero carbon planning and design (heat decarbonisation, renewable energy)
- Building thermal energy performance and compliance
- Operational energy and carbon performance across:
- Thermal comfort
- Future weather file analysis
- Climate-based daylighting
- Glare assessment
- Heat network analysis
- Renewables potential assessment
- Photovoltaic array modelling
How we add value
We provide friendly, open and honest sustainability services to our clients. Irrespective of where our clients are on their sustainability journeys, we are trusted advisors and leaders in industry, providing practical solutions.
We work closely with clients to understand and address their sustainability risks, ambitions and opportunities across all project stages. By developing clear and comprehensive sustainability strategies and assessments, we maximise whole life value while reducing carbon, resource use, cost and environmental impacts.
Our approach future-proofs assets through flexible, adaptive design and enhances reputations with robust data, accreditations and demonstrable social value.
Practical actions for projects and organisations
Practical sustainability solutions based on information, evidence and modelling. Preparing foundations for clear and justified decision making.
Net zero pathways
Deep and comprehensive assessments of current carbon performance, leading to pragmatic and financially viable pathways to net zero outcomes across project design, procurement and construction, operation and end of life.
Meaningful circular solutions
Making full and practical use of the resources available to us. Using low impact and reusable materials, products and technologies with best effect. Quantifying the environmental and economic benefits of circular practice.
Climate resilient and adaptable outcomes
Using rich and industry-verified data and information upon which to understand local climatic trends. Comprehensively understanding built environment and social systems, and assessing opportunities to improve resilience and adaptability.
Leaving positive and lasting legacies strategy
Sustainability principles are embedded in our design and management processes, leaving positive and lasting legacies for our clients and the communities we serve.