Sustainability
Designing sustainable buildings involves a holistic approach that integrates energy-efficient design, use of environmentally friendly materials, and consideration of the building's long-term impact on the environment.
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We design with the following strategies in mind to deliver energy efficient and low carbon emitting buildings.
Passive Design:
Where suitable, we incorporate Passive design strategies to focus on maximizing natural light, ventilation, and thermal insulation to reduce the energy consumption of the building. Examples include designing buildings to take advantage of the sun's orientation, using natural ventilation, and incorporating green roofs to help regulate temperature.
Energy-Efficient Systems:
Incorporating energy-efficient systems, such as high-efficiency heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, LED lighting, and smart building controls, can significantly reduce a building's energy consumption.
Sustainable Materials:
We actively promote the use of recycled and renewable materials for construction along with the re-use of existing buildings. This reduces the environmental impact of building materials and helps to conserve natural resources.
Life-Cycle Assessment:
We consider the environmental impact of the building throughout its life cycle, including the construction, operation, and disposal phases. This involves a careful analysis of the environmental impact of the building's materials, energy usage, and waste management.
Not only do we promote sustainable and environmentally friendly construction methodologies, but we also actively look to improve the internal environment of our buildings through wellbeing principles.
People are at the heart of most buildings whether staff, residents, or visitors.
The quality of the air we breathe, the temperature, humidity, colours, shadows and experiences we find in each space can have a significant impact on our wellbeing and moods, both long and short term.
We practice what we preach. We have experienced first-hand in our own office the effect that well designed and healthy work spaces can have on staff from both a production and enjoyment point of view.
Our portfolio incorporates extensive experience across all work stages for large Energy from Waste developments.
Where the waste is managed into recyclable materials, and material for high temperature gasification. These complex developments divert waste disposal from landfill and repurpose the material to new uses with the residual ash used in concrete block manufacture and road construction and the residual heat used to drive steam turbines to generate electricity for export to the National Grid.
We are also involved with developments that accommodate multiple Waste management processes such as Recycling, Anaerobic digestion, Gasification, and Hydrogen production.
