For businesses across the globe, there is much work to be done to achieve a better, more sustainable future.
We take the pressing issues of climate change, biodiversity, equality, social value and wellbeing seriously. Across the breadth of our services, we can have an impact in several ways; not just through the buildings we help create, or the places we help change, but in the research, analysis and consultation we undertake to get there.
Things cannot continue as they are and there is no room for ‘business as usual’.
Specialist knowledge and qualifications
Responding to the climate emergency can seem rather overwhelming.
We are a built environment practice with expertise in planning, architecture, heritage, and placemaking, alongside specialist qualifications in Building with Nature and Retrofit Coordination, and champions in Social Value and Low Carbon Design.
We have embedded sustainability into our business, and aligned ourselves with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We have these to frame the agenda for change and developed a toolkit to review the projects we carry out and how we operate as an organisation. We have chosen to focus on the following six goals:
The toolkit enables us to have manageable focused conversations that allow balanced decisions to be made on projects and their impacts, which we consider at the start of a project and as the project completes.
The toolkit enables us to ask the right questions whether the project is an individual home or a mixed-use placemaking scheme. Some questions are very simple and some require a more considered thought process, but all are clearly defined to help shape a responsible, commercial, positive and balanced scheme.
Positive change
“From our experience, it is clear that one design solution does not fit all, and so understanding the balance of priority will help inform the appropriate sustainable strategy, ensuring a benefit to our clients and the natural environment.“The toolkit outlined in our Sustainable Future brochure sets out our sustainable approach to projects and business operations alike, and shows how we can achieve success.
“We care about what we do.”
Paul Miller, Director of Sustainability
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