Sustainability in development projects influences energy use, materials use, waste created, water use, ecological impact, transport and land use. Increasingly, the planning process requires that a proposed development scheme will have to provide evidence of the following:
We undertake sustainability, efficiency, carbon emissions and environmental impact work for a wide range of projects.
What is Sustainability?
How Your Development Creates Carbon Dioxide & Greenhouse Gasses
Kyoto & Your Business
Energy Saving & Buildings
Breeam Assessments For Buildings
The classic definition of sustainable development is a ‘development which meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs’. Brundtland Report 1987
Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses are emitted during almost all phases of a development programme. Sources include manufacturing processes and the transport of materials as well as the operation of construction machinery. In total, these emissions all contribute to climate change.
In tackling climate change, the Kyoto agreement has set targets to reduce specified greenhouses gases by 2008 to 2012. The UK Government has set a voluntary target to reduce CO2 emissions to 20% below 1990 levels by 2010. It has also set a target for 10% of the UK energy supply to come from renewable sources by 2010, rising to 20% by 2020.
In the UK 34% of the total energy supplied is used for transport – and 47% by buildings. Energy use in domestic buildings accounts for 63% of the energy used by all buildings. Introducing energy saving measures is most easily done when new properties are built.
The Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) is a tool that is used to review and improve the environmental performance of all types of buildings. As well as ensuring compliance with planning policies and their use in Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) they can demonstrate your ‘green’ credentials to investors and clients, minimising investment risk and increasing the appeal to ethical investors and clients.

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