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SUSTAINABILITY

Our dedicated ESD team offers a range of environmentally sustainable design solutions, providing a raft of nationally and internationally recognised accreditations. Our design recommendations can ensure your building meets a host of ‘green’ initiatives to set your building up for long term operational efficiencies and successes in the sustainability space.

We house a team of experienced Green Star Accredited Professionals to assist clients with their Green Star project or to help decide whether a Green Star is right for them.

We prioritise full team involvement in the Green Star process and boast a raft of past projects which have achieved Green Star certifications. Our building simulation team has an extensive understanding of the specific building simulation requirements of Green Star projects which underpins their strong track record of experience.

We have an in-house Homestar Assessor and Designer team with significant experience on Homestar projects specialising in multi-unit developments. This ensures we are well positioned to offer design advice and assist clients through the entire certification process.

Our in-house NABERSNZ Accredited Assessor can assist with NABERSNZ certifications and design advice. This can be applied to a raft of clients, from landlords looking to house Government tenants in existing buildings to those wishing to achieve a NABERSNZ certification for efficient energy performance.

Whether for building certification compliance, Ministry of Education projects or early-stage building design advice, we are able to provide assistance on building computer simulation projects. We provide assessments of energy consumption, daylighting performance or thermal comfort, and ventilation mdoelling at any stage of a project. This is done to assist the design team or provide confidence for the expected operation once the building is complete.

Our team can assess the equivalent carbon emissions of each client’s project, considering either embodied carbon or operational carbon, or through performing full Life Cycle Assessments of the project.

We take pride in having impacts on efficient carbon use. Our extensive experience in decarbonisation projects for aquatic facilities have significantly reduced the operational carbon emissions of sites across New Zealand. We also have experience assessing organisational carbon emissions in accordance with the Toitū carbon certification programmes and are a Net Carbon Zero certified business.

Our team is passionate about sustainability and provide added value in many ways. If you are wanting to establish sustainable design framework for future projects or work closely with the New Zealand Green Building Council on a bespoke service, we would be happy to help.