5 Tips For A Successful Career In Sustainability Consultancy
A sustainability consulting career requires the knowledge and skill set necessary to successfully manage projects. As a consultant, you will be responsible for developing tasks, managing budgets, and managing scope changes. Sustainability consultancy training programs are designed to help students develop the necessary skills to complete projects. If you’re considering a career in sustainability consulting, […]
What Is A BREEAM Assessment? A Deeper Look
A BREEAM Assessment is a certification system that helps you determine the sustainability of a building. It was created in 1990 by the Building Research Establishment and is now the world’s most established sustainability rating system. It aims to help architects, designers, and building owners understand the true sustainability potential of a building. What Is […]
Why We Need Sustainability For The Future
Global warming is not a far-off threat anymore. It has already begun. The terrible effects of carbon emissions, greenhouse gasses, and more have reared their ugly head. There are floods in some parts of the world while others are suffering from drought. Sea levels are rising, sinking cities while grounding water levels are at an […]
Energy Statements: How And Who Can Provide Them
The Role Of Sustainability Consultants In Construction Everything For Posterity: Leaving Behind A Stable Future The previous generations have destroyed the earth and its resources without a thought to the future generations and progeny. This has made it incumbent upon the current generation to take steps, actively and quickly, to ensure that stable earth can […]
How Can WLCA Help Designers Reduce Embodied Carbon Emissions?
Sustainability is at the forefront of every building designer’s mind today. And for many, the firm focus is on designing structures that reduce operational emissions; that require less energy to heat; that enhance the indoor environmental quality; that reduce waste. However, it’s becoming increasingly apparent that designers must be able to envision the entire process […]
How The Energy Hierarchy Can Help Reduce Operational Carbon Emissions
Buildings represent one of the biggest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions, and it’s estimated that just under one-third of those emissions come from everyday operations. Operational emissions are those that are generated through things like heating and cooling a building, lighting a building, ventilating a building, and the building’s water supply. According to the World […]
Why Thermal Analysis Should Be Considered in Early Design
Thermal Analysis Every building will naturally feel cooler in the winter months, and warmer in the summer. However, extreme temperatures could become much more common here in the UK. Climate change is expected to bring fewer but more substantial cold snaps during winter, and in the summer we’re already seeing signs of the Urban Heat […]
Whole Life Cycle Assessment And Building Circularity For The London Plan
Whole Life Cycle Assessment for GLA Here, we delve deeper into the new London Plan 2021 and how Mayor Sadiq Khan has set London’s future construction and environmental development. This is relevant to architects and aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through major building project requirements and build occupancy and future management. The Mayor’s plan […]
How Can Building Simulation & Modelling Help You Achieve Net Zero?
For building developers and architects aiming to create buildings that are net-zero, in line with the government’s mission of achieving net-zero by 2050, the latest technological advances in building simulations and modelling can help. Building simulation and modelling software help create building designs that give an accurate representation of not only the design but also […]
The Complete Guide To Developing A Net Zero Building
The World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) has issued findings reporting that the number of organisations committed to net-zero energy buildings has doubled in one year. This is an incredible statistic and shows the combined global effort we are all making to combat climate change. Creating a sustainable world involves creating buildings that are net-zero. In […]