Designing sustainable buildings
Arup’s sustainable design strategy for building projectsSustainability is already having a significant impact on the way that clients, designers, contractors and end-users design and operate buildings. Arup has developed a design strategy to assist our clients and those we work with to navigate through this rapid period of change and deliver what is possible.
By providing a consistent approach to considering sustainability issues on every project, we are able to help our clients realise the opportunities for more sustainable design. This strategy is part of the firms overall commitment to sustainability for our clients and our own business. We aim to raise discussion on sustainability to a strategic level, making it a real and positive step in the development process.
Our commitment:
Arup will provide creative and viable strategies that will enable our clients to imagine how it is possible to move towards fully sustainable buildings.
At the beginning of every project we will provide all of our clients with a strategy of how we might design within the natural capacity of the planet.
This strategy will help our clients to understand how their buildings might be:
- 1. Carbon neutral
- 2. Self-sufficient by collecting and re-using water
- 3. Built using sustainable materials
- 4. Able to cope with future climate change
- 5. A positive contribution to the community and built environment
- 6. Sustainable in operation
The strategy will form the basis of a workshop or discussion with our clients and project teams with the aim to agree project goals and develop a sustainability design plan which describes the steps needed to achieve these goals.
For more information please contact:
Alistair Guthrie
Global Buildings Sustainable Business Network Leader
sustainability@arup.com
T 0207 755 2030