Sustainable office design promotes resource efficiency, reduces energy consumption, and minimises waste generation. It also contributes to a healthier and more productive work environment for employees. By adopting sustainable practices, businesses can demonstrate their commitment to environmental stewardship and social responsibility.

Each organisation is different, so no two will have exactly the same sustainability goals. Ultimately, your sustainability goals should cover three main areas (the three pillars of sustainability): economic, social, and environmental. To help you determine achievable goals, we start by understanding what you and your key stakeholders want to achieve.

From our experience working with many clients committed to sustainability objectives, we know there are two critical foundations to following through on these goals.Firstly, during the consultancy and design phase, we collect as much data as possible about from an energy consumption and emissions perspective. We establish our projects in hard science and facts to determine how we can realistically achieve goals.Secondly, we stick systematically to our strategic plan and train our clients on how to continue this strategy with their own workforce after the completion of the project.

Carbon measured in construction is called ‘embodied carbon’ and consists of all greenhouse gases emitted from the building construction. Embodied carbon consists of all emissions associated with building construction, including those from the extraction, transportation, manufacture, and installation of building materials on site, as well as the operational and end-of-life emissions associated with those materials.