Our sustainability journey will never be over but we aim to improve, year on year
We didn’t quite achieve all of our goals from last year [again!] so we’ve carried some over to this year. We feel that we are making progress though.
Our key sustainability goals for 2025 are:
- Employ an independent sustainability consultant to help us map out and guide us to achieve the business operation goals.
- Complete a full business process audit and assessment, to identify where improvements can be made.
- Initiate Post Occupancy Evaluation on completed projects and see where corrections and changes need to be made moving forwards.
- Investigate and start to complete Whole Life Carbon Assessments of projects.
- Start to operate a Carbon Calculator in line with industry standard best practice so we can make better choices about the suitability of material choices and systems of build at early stages and throughout the life of a project.
- Check more diligently with customers, collaborators, manufacturers, suppliers and other stakeholders about how they are reducing their impact on the environment, and try to discern if they actually care or not. We then need to make an assessment about suitability for working together in the future.
What we actually achieved in 2025
- Continuing to check with clients and collaborators, if they also share our vision of low environmental impact.
- Investigated different types of Carbon Calculators and Whole Life Carbon Assessment tools. Discovered this is a minefield of differing and varied information. Decided to drop having two types of assessment and to focus on Life Cycle Analysis only so all carbon and energy is assessed during the life of a project, from raw materials and processing to construction to operation to demolition and re-use. We feel this is more accurate and balanced approach. However, Life Cycle Analysis software is very expensive so decided to put this to one side until there is enough money available to reinvest into the business with this service and associated costs.
- Investigated employing an independent sustainability consultant but unfortunately the cost of their services coincided with a steep downturn in work and billable projects. Essentially, this meant we couldn’t afford to employ a consultant. Hopefully, we can employ a consultant next year.
- Continuing to check with clients and collaborators, if they also share our vision of low environmental impact.
- Everything else listed above was not completed, so we’ll carry these over to next year.
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