Managing environmental risk, unlocking value and building a sustainable future
Whether you’re leasing, transacting, redeveloping or managing land and buildings, our Environmental Consultancy Group can give you the expert guidance you need to manage risks and constraints, measure and improve carbon footprint, certify buildings and enhance sustainability and wellbeing.
We pride ourselves on our depth and breadth of technical experts across a wide range of disciplines – from chartered energy engineers and managers, accredited BREEAM, LEED, ISO & Wellness sustainability professionals, through to chartered water and environmental managers – as well as our commercial understanding and focus on finding the best solution.
We have a successful track record of achieving excellent results for private, public and third sector clients across portfolios and on individual sites. Our long-standing relationships and volume of repeat business are testament to this.
Main Contacts
Environmental Consultancy Services
Environmental Risk
Contact: Andy Morgan - Director, Contaminated Land Lead, Environmental Risk
[email protected] | +44 20 7182 2240 | +44 7771 974 934
Flood risk – We interpret complex flood datasets and present you with a concise, commercially-focused view of the likelihood and consequences of flooding. Our advice goes beyond standard automated datasets to identify implications relevant to your business standard and creating flood resilience, providing you with a real advantage in the market place.
Contact: Tim Fay - Associate Director, Flood Risk Lead, Environmental Risk | [email protected]
+44 20 3214 1860 | +44 7500 920 845
Minimum Energy Efficiency Standard – We will critically appraise the appropriateness of the Energy Performance Certificate and quantify any limitations. Our in-house team has a strong track record of improving poorly rated assets in a cost-effective way to ensure that you get the maximum value for the minimum risk.
+44 20 7182 3393
Sustainability – We will confirm the overall sustainability performance of a property or development to allow you to understand and mitigate any impact to your business standard or environmental social governance (ESG) strategy. By commissioning a sustainability review and, where necessary, detailed energy, water and waste audits, you can be informed of the current benchmarked performance and identify responsibilities, measures and costs required to improve overall efficiency.
Contact: Stephen Kent - Senior Consultant, Sustainability Consultancy | [email protected]
+44 20 7182 3324
Impact Assessment
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) – We provide a ‘one-stop’ EIA project management and coordination service, which simplifies lines of communication and avoids problems that can arise when individual topics are dealt with in isolation.
Our success is built on effective, early engagement with key stakeholders and a focus on delivering proportionate assessment – providing the right level of information to allow well-informed and timely decisions to be taken by determining authorities, as well as the swift delivery of consented schemes. We have a 100% track-record for screening out the need for EIA where we have recommended it. In addition, we have not to date been required to provide a Regulation 25 submission for deficiencies in an original environmental statement, attesting to the comprehensiveness and quality of our work.
When we need specialist advice – on anything from great crested newts to archaeological deposits – we call on our extensive network of expert consultants to identify cost-effective solutions.
Contact: Patrick Little - Associate Director, Impact Assessment | [email protected]
+44 20 7182 3313 | +44 7919 044 337
Socio-economic and Health Impact Assessment – The increasing recognition of the effect surroundings have on communities’ wellbeing and the downstream costs of this on individuals’ health and public health services delivery have placed a greater emphasis on the consideration of health impacts at the planning stage.
We provide insight into the potential effects of schemes on an area and its community - from quantifying economic opportunities, such as job creation and local spend multiplier effects, through to defining capacity demand on local schools and GP surgeries. Our expertise is often integral to the master planning process, informing phasing strategies to ensure schemes are straightforward and deliverable.
We work with design teams, clients and statutory consultees, such as Clinical Commissioning Groups, to influence developments to deliver healthier environments. We analyse development interventions in the context of a comprehensive evidence base to evaluate the likely effectiveness of such measures and present the findings in a Health Impact Assessment.
Contact: Georgina Dowling - Director, Head of Impact Assessment
[email protected] | +44 20 7182 3247 | +44 7920 072 509
Sustainability Consultancy
+44 20 7182 3376 | +44 7393 239 001
Sustainable Development – We proactively engage with the local authority and embed ourselves within the design team to drive and monitor best practice throughout design, construction and operation. Our advice is both pragmatic and proportionate to the development, whether it forms part of a major masterplan or estate regeneration scheme or a small residential building. We have substantial experience both nationally and in London, where we can provide the necessary advice and services to meet the Greater London Authority’s Zero Carbon policies, including the carbon offsetting calculations.
Contact: Stephen Kent - Senior Consultant, Sustainability Consultancy | [email protected]
+44 20 7182 3324 | +44 7769 367 465
Green Building and Wellness Certifications – Whether to meet planning requirements, strategy and corporate compliance or to make an asset stand out in the marketplace, we provide certification consultancy and assessments for construction, fit out/refurbishment and operation. Our team of licensed professionals undertake assessments using the following assessment tools:
• BREEAM: New Construction, Fitout and Refurbishment and In Use
• LEED: Commercial Interiors and Building Operation and Maintenance
• SKA: Office Fit-out
• WELL: Building Standard and Community Standard
• FitWel: New Construction, Retail, Community, Workplace and Multifamily Residential
Contact: Patrick Staunton - Associate Director, Health & Wellness Lead
[email protected] | +44 20 7182 3315
Richa Jindal - Senior Consultant, Sustainability Consultancy
[email protected] | +44 20 7182 3598
Sustainable Property Management – We work with our property management teams to ensure that sustainability is fully embedded into their management processes. This ensures that risks are identified, advised and strategies put in place for their mitigation; while opportunities are highlighted which maximise the performance of your assets and portfolios. We tailor these strategies and set key performance indicators that reflect your business goals and drivers, evolving with your wider responsible property investment or sustainability programme, so that performance across a broad range of metrics can be monitored and effectively communicated.
Contact: Carl Brooks - Director, Head of Sustainability, Property Management
[email protected] | +44 20 7182 3720 | +44 7584 478 692
Energy Management
Energy Optimisation – We use our own smart technology, Asset IQ, and professional engineering support to provide unique insights and optimise the energy efficiency, costs and carbon emissions of your assets.
Asset IQ provides an easy to install product for SMART buildings that gives engineers and property managers access to real-time performance information, helping reduce energy wastage. It can interact with 3rd party databases (e.g. service charge, recharging) and can accept manual data entry so it can be tailored to action specific key performance indicators (electricity, gas, air quality, landlord and tenant(s) consumption) and enable sustainability / ESG strategy obligations. Benchmarking and energy performance data can be shared on screens of public areas to the asset to demonstrate progress and influence behavioural changes.
Contact: Damien Renaut - Director, Asset IQ Lead, Energy Management
[email protected]
Energy Improvement Programme / Energy Audits (used in conjunction with GRESB) – By following a detailed process of energy cost and efficiency analysis, system reviews and feasibility studies we can provide you with a bespoke energy improvement programme for all types of assets, highlighting saving on energy, costs and carbon emissions.
Other services offered:
- Carbon footprinting
- Energy data management and assurance
- Part L energy modelling and advice
- Energy strategies for planning (see ‘Sustainability Consultancy’ for related services)
- Thermal bridging calculations, construction detailing and airtightness advice
- TM54 operational energy performance modelling
- Post occupancy energy performance monitoring and review
Contact: Nicola Esposito - Director, Head of Energy Management | [email protected]
+44 20 7182 3244 | +44 7467 686 751
Case Studies
Landid & Brockton
JV Porter Building
12,000 sq ft
