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To achieve net zero, adapt to climate change and meet the other challenges facing society today, we urgently need to conserve, manage and replenish our environmental resources as we develop the infrastructure that society needs. Our clients include public authorities, infrastructure developers, property companies and landowners. We help them to protect the environment through effective management of land, air and water.
We provide constructive challenge and creative input so our clients can respond to a fast-changing regulatory framework. And we support the delivery of projects that protect the planet, enhance health and wellbeing, and have a positive impact on society as a whole.
How we help you
Our service is comprehensive: including air quality, biodiversity, noise, community engagement, environmental assessment and management, land quality, water, resources and waste, and the maintenance and protection of historic environments. Here are just a few examples of how our services can be combined to guide projects to a progressive environmental outcome:
Nature-based solutions
We design nature-based solutions that can support biodiversity, net zero, and will produce better health and wellbeing outcomes for whole communities.
Our work on the Wild West End initiative brought property owners together to establish a green corridor, supporting health, wellbeing and biodiversity in the heart of London. In Manchester, we are working with partners to understand the long-term value – in terms of social impact, natural capital, land value and carbon reduction – of the ReLeaf Initiative, a sustained programme of tree-planting.
Our teams are proficient in applying circular economy principles to projects, finding ways to reuse existing materials. In Queensland, Australia, our engineers are working with universities to investigate how sugar cane waste can be used in infrastructure projects to replace carbon-intensive cement and lime. Our work on Singapore’s Urban Food Production Masterplan has shown how cities can achieve food security and lower carbon costs through approaches such as vertical farms and tighter localised supply-chains.
Technology to support nature
We also develop and use digital tools, to extend our understanding of natural phenomena and processes. Our digital experts can map and analyse environments and assets, enabling smart decision-taking and targeted intervention at a scale and speed that would have been impossible only a few years ago. Our digital land-use analysis tool – Terrain – can process vast quantities of satellite data and automatically map habitats, and support planning and environmental protection discussions.
Our systems can help citizens make sense of the future too: our Soundlab tests the acoustic impact of infrastructure, and our support to the award-winning ‘REWILD Our Planet’ augmented reality experience has helped visitors in Singapore and Australia to think about how they can work together to restore ecosystems.
Shaping sustainable outcomes
Our research helps inform public debate and shapes government guidance around the world. Our air quality experts have helped develop technologies and policies to map and understand air quality in cities around the world, to improve health and reduce carbon emissions.
Your project partner
Environmental projects are best shaped and delivered in collaborative partnership. That’s why we work with clients from strategy definition through to planning, stakeholder engagement, impact assessments, commissioning and through to operations. We help them to establish baselines, set realistic and ambitious targets and implement the programmes of action that will deliver these. We design in environmental enhancements from the outset of projects, and put in place environmental management systems to optimise everything from air quality to ecology.
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At Meridian Water, a former industrial site in north London, we worked with the client to address issues of flooding, contamination, poor air quality and noise, and built in flood defences.
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Working for Transport for London, we undertook a comprehensive review of the potential of reusing heat generated by London Underground to heat homes and offices.
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Our masterplan for Mahindra World City, a new settlement near Jaipur, offers a blueprint for more sustainable urban development in its journey to become one of the world’s largest climate resilient developments.