You’ve paid for it, so why waste it, or worse still waste it then pay to dispose of it? Resource efficiency projects have long been one of our main services, usually to manufacturing industry. In these projects, we aim to decouple economic growth from increasing costs and environmental impacts. This is the core of sustainable development: assisting growth in economic prosperity and standard of living while simultaneously reducing environmental impacts and economic costs.

EcoHomes

Developed by BRE in 2001, EcoHomes has become the de facto standard for sustainable building in the residential sector. The EcoHomes rating considers building materials, energy efficiency, transport and other aspects, combining them into a single score. We have three registered EcoHomes assessors and deal with the vast majority of EcoHomes related work in Scotland. Our service ranges from a simple assessment against the standard to comprehensive design assistance ensuring a particular rating.

Sustainable Construction

One of our main service areas has always been the provision of advice and assistance to clients (usually housing associations, developers or architects) on sustainable construction. As well as the fairly small-scale residential side of sustainable construction covered by EcoHomes, we are also involved as sustainability consultants in several larger scale sustainable construction projects, such as the regeneration of Craigmillar, Fountain North, Green Dykes, Queen Margaret Drive, Edinburgh Fruitmarket.

Contaminated Land

Planning Departments are increasingly requiring a contaminated land assessment for any development project where there may be even the slightest hint of contamination from previous uses. This includes common materials such asbestos roofing tiles and diesel tanks. To complete our suite of construction-related services, we also provide a complete service in the assessement, analysis and remediation of contaminated land.

Environmental Impact Assessment

Related to the construction and development side of the business, we are also able to provide a service in EIA for projects which require it.

Projects:

Regeneration of Craigmillar Kingennie Fields St Anthony's School Site, Govan Ruby St Adam Smith College