Masterplanning advice
Running in parallel with our strategic sustainability consultancy, our sustainability, energy, modelling, and wellbeing specialists help our clients set holistic and future-proofed strategies for their estate-wide masterplans.
Masterplanning leaders
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About masterplanning advice
In 2003, we ‘wrote the book’ on embedding sustainability principles in urban design and residential masterplanning – drawing on our thorough understanding of how buildings work (particularly in energy and water consumption terms) to provide a set of enduring, realistic, and workable design guidelines for liveable cities. Since then, we have incorporated new disciplines – strategic embodied carbon and whole-life carbon advice; sophisticated modelling of light and air to optimise designs for differing environmental conditions across any given site; wellbeing assessments that put inhabitant comfort ahead of basic regulatory requirements – to provide masterplanning advice for residential, higher education, and mixed-use schemes of all kinds.
As MEP engineers and sustainability consultants, we have a deep understanding of the built environment and the construction sector – an understanding that allows us to help our clients successfully navigate, anticipate, and respond to changing regulatory landscapes over the long timeframes associated with masterplanning.
Case studies
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All services
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All buildings should be comfortable and a pleasure to be in: warm, well-lit, well-ventilated, well-used, and well-loved. Our mechanical and electrical engineering, vertical transportation, acoustics, daylight, and lighting design services can help ensure just that. We maximise passive measures such as natural ventilation and daylighting, seamlessly dovetailing our designs with the building’s own form and architecture to result in simple, low-energy, and low-cost building services.
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In the face of an increasingly urgent climate emergency, it’s crucial that buildings consume as little energy as possible in their operation. Low energy, low carbon, and low operational costs are our watchwords when it comes to designing new buildings or retrofitting existing ones. We help our clients build sustainability goals into masterplans or early-stage feasibility studies, decarbonise existing estates, and optimise how a building performs against its targets for sustainability and user comfort.
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Meeting net zero carbon targets and minimising a building’s impact on the environment means reducing embodied carbon – the carbon tied up in the materials like steel, concrete, and plastic that go into a building’s construction and services design – as much as operational carbon (the carbon a building produces in its heating, cooling, and lighting). We facilitate material reuse with circular economy strategies, steer low embodied carbon design from the earliest project stages with whole life carbon assessments, and offer advice on planning and compliance, all helping to reduce the carbon footprint of construction.