Sustainability consulting services
We offer a range of sustainability consulting services throughout the planning, design, and evaluation stages.
Planning Services
Our services at the planning stage include:
- Environmental design guidance (site selection, massing studies, early concept advice, transport interfaces)
- BREEAM assessments, Code for Sustanable Homes assessments, LEED assessments, carbon, waste, water targets
- Corporate responsibility policies (guidance on environmental aspects)
- Meeting planning requirements for renewables or sustainability
- Assessing environmental impacts of new build versus building retention, including embodied energy assessments.
- Developing business cases for sustainability
- Sustainability policy development
Design Services
Our services at the design stage include:
- Cost effective strategies to meet sustainability targets
- Carbon compliance systems (development and management systems)
- Part L compliance studies
- Part L1 – SAP calculations certificates. Computer simulations of thermal performance (using IES and SBEM software) to estimate consumption
- Total energy assessments leading to carbon emissions studies
- Projecting energy and environmental impacts for whole life assessments
- Advising on the path to Net Zero waste - calculating recycled content, and site waste management planning
- BREEAM assessments, Code For Sustainable Homes assessments, LEED assessments, Envest predictions and assessments
- Determining sustainability and energy performance KPIs
- Feasibility studies of building integrated wind, photovoltaics, solar thermal, biomass, GSHP
- Combined Heat and Power (CHP) feasibility studies
- Guidance in relation to local authority renewable targets (10-20% via renewables)
- Material selection
- Water efficiency and rainwater / greywater recovery systems
- Waste management
- Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS)
Evaluations and Appraisals
Services for new and existing buildings include:
- Energy / carbon audits of buildings
- Cost effective retrofit solutions
- EU Energy Performance of Building Directive ratings
- Monitoring and targeting - energy / carbon and waste management
- Benchmarking and measuring the success of chosen strategies
- Assessing environmental impact, management and operation, using BREEAM assessments, LEED assessments, and Ecohomes / Envest, Code for Sustanable Homes assessments
- Indoor air quality assessments