Estate Decarbonisation

Across the public and private sector, we advise property owners and estate managers on decarbonisation strategies for the built assets they own and occupy.

We help to make built assets more energy efficient, more resilient to climate change and energy price fluctuations, more comfortable for their users, and more valuable.

With a focus on Scope 1 and 2 emissions, our team will deliver a baseline study to establish in-use energy performance and carbon emissions. Layering in detail on current and projected building usage, we model the cost/benefit impacts from different solutions to improve building performance, reduce emissions and achieve net zero.

Taking a 360-degree view of an estate helps to prioritise capital works and investments.

A phased programme of decarbonisation, including both retrofit and investment in clean energy technologies, will be influenced by a range of factors such as:

• Future space requirements
• User needs and experiences
• Grid connectivity
• Buildings most at risk from climate change
• Buildings facing an extensive backlog of maintenance and lifecycle replacement issues

With a strategy in place, our multi-disciplinary engineering teams can support with the detailed design, planning submissions and procurement of works, covering key areas such as MEP, civil and structural engineering, fire safety and acoustics.

Decarbonising the built environment is acknowledged as one of the biggest challenges to reach our collective net zero goals. But it can also present numerous opportunities to address other challenges such as ongoing data capture, maintenance backlogs, lifecycle plant replacement and regulatory compliance.