Our strategic partnerships programme allows us to confront complex problems that threaten the future of built and natural environments.

Through our partnerships we transcend conventional client-consultant and private sector-civil society dynamics to achieve positive, systemic change.

Partnership complements our project work, enabling us to gain insights and co-create solutions that are of value to our clients and the wider world. Our partnering approach also represents another route to pursuing our purpose: to create safe, resilient and regenerative places that allow current and future generations to thrive.

A view of Quay Quarter Tower above the clouds

Decarbonising the built environment

The built environment accounts for around 37% of global energy-related carbon emissions.

As a leader in the planning and design of the built environment, we work with others to develop industry-wide approaches for standardised carbon accounting and whole life carbon assessment.

Flooded road in Australia

Strengthening resilience

Pressures are intensifying on the systems that citizens, communities and nations rely on.

We recognise that the ability to maintain and enhance the resilience of critical systems is fundamental to our expertise as a built environment leader. For this reason, several of our partnerships focus on advancing approaches to adaptation, resilience, and recovery for essential infrastructure.

Offshore wind farm

Accelerating the energy transition

Transformation of the global energy sector is well underway. This transition to an electrified world will both safeguard the planet and rewire the global economy.

Our partnerships include a focus on energy transition, through which we prioritise innovation in the upgrading, expansion and digitalisation of electricity networks.

Peoples' Pavilion

Establishing circular systems

A third of emissions from the built environment sector stem from the extraction, manufacture, and transportation of construction materials.

We partner with and convene leading businesses within the construction sector to co-create viable solutions that will allow this industry to transform itself and its impacts.