What it covers
Sustainability on a real project is mostly a series of unglamorous decisions made early: which way the building faces, where the windows are, what the walls are made of, where the rainwater goes, how the building is cooled without machinery.
Made at design stage, most of them cost little or nothing. Made later, they become expensive equipment bolted onto a building that was designed to fight them.
What you get
Decisions that pay for themselves.
- Orientation and passive design so the building stays comfortable without mechanical cooling
- Material selection weighed on cost, availability, durability and impact
- Rainwater harvesting and water efficiency designed in, not added on
- Energy strategy including solar water heating and photovoltaic readiness
- Running cost estimates, so the case is financial, not just moral
- Construction waste planning
When you need it
The case is strongest in these situations.
- You will own and operate the building, so the running cost is yours
- You want lower bills without a premium build cost
- Your project has environmental requirements to satisfy
- You are building where the grid or the water supply is unreliable
How the engagement runs
Best value comes when we are involved before the design is fixed.
If the design is already done, we do a review and tell you what is still worth changing and what is now too late to be worth the cost.
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Design it to cost less to run.
Most of these decisions cost nothing if they are made before the design is fixed.