Environmental Benchmarking
Planning and promoting sustainability wins
Environmental and sustainability credentials for buildings have never been so important. These internationally recognised benchmarks are highly significant when it comes to improving commercial and social value¡ªfor customers, employees, communities, and investors. People form an opinion of your business through the buildings you develop, invest in, or occupy.
By securing the highest sustainable credentials, you can enhance rental income, increase asset value, attract the best occupiers, and offer investors a strong environmental, sustainable, and governance (ESG) narrative. All benefits which support your future funding streams.
Our job? Helping you achieve the best outcomes by benchmarking, measuring, and improving environmental and sustainability performance based on international frameworks such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Our advice ranges from strategic masterplan sites promoting multi-faceted BREEAM / WELL communities to individually-targeted opportunities using more detailed studies such as Passivhaus.
If you¡¯re looking for BREEAM, WELL, NABERS UK, FITWEL, ActiveScore, LEED, DREAM, Home Quality Mark (HQM), Passivhaus, or Building with Nature, our Environmental Benchmarking team can help.?
Meeting your BREEAM goals with dedicated partners
Starting at RIBA Stage 1, we can help advise you and your design teams on which credits can be secured¡ªand what risks you have for on-site achievability. We¡¯ll work with design teams to plan how to target BREEAM and all other relevant accreditations and determine how these goals will influence building design. Through the design and construction phases, we¡¯ll review work against the key benchmarking criteria so the project stays on course to achieve the targeted accreditation.WELL & FITWEL
These standards help shape buildings that support the wellbeing of occupants and healthy communities. They include several evidence-based design and operational strategies to enhance buildings and sites¡ªaddressing a range of health behaviours and risks.NABERS UK
Our assessors use the highly-regarded NABERS UK rating system to report on the energy-efficiency of office spaces. The Design for Performance programme helps drive energy-efficient new buildings, and an energy ratings system helps measure the energy efficiency of existing buildings¡ª¡ªhelping owners understand the performance of their asset.ActiveScore
This definitive accreditation for active travel provision in real estate is region specific and based on 18 different criteria. The assessments cover infrastructure, occupier engagement initiatives, and future-proofing measures to cater for increased travel. Why value active travel? Facilities that prioritise active travel can inspire more healthy and active modes of transport, and the accreditation adds value to ESG reporting¡ªwith the potential to reduce Scope 3 employee commuting category emissions.
Michael Davey, Associate Director, Sustainability
I believe assessor engagement at the earliest opportunity is critical for any sustainable design project¡ªfrom studies to concept design.
George Taylor, Associate Sustainability Consultant
My goal is to bring together designers to engineer solutions in the built environment that benefit people and the planet.
Marion Delaney, Associate, Sustainability
I enjoy helping developments achieve the highest possible ratings¡ªenvironmental benchmarking provides vital, independent certification.
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