Sustainability Services

Our Sustainability Services team is highly experienced in providing specialist support across every built environment sector.

Working in partnership with our clients on schemes of every type and scale, we take a holistic approach to sustainability, identifying and addressing the core themes which matter to you and your stakeholders, all whilst ensuring compliance with the latest standards, legislation and certifications.

Our cross-sector experience spans everything from major masterplanning to the repositioning of an individual asset. Working with you from the outset of a project, our specialists help maximise climate resilience and reduce the environmental impact of assets and developments across the UK.

Based in key locations throughout the UK, our team has a local presence in every region. We offer a comprehensive range of specialist sustainability support spread across four core service areas: Strategic Sustainability, Building Performance & Decarbonisation, Building Circularity, and Building Certifications.

We understand that making a holistic assessment is crucial to delivering meaningful progress on your journey to Net Zero, and we ensure building performance, lifecycle carbon, responsible investment, material circularity, wellbeing, biodiversity, ethical supply chains and water efficiency are all considered throughout everything we do.

As your sustainability partner, you can rely on us entirely. We work with you to formulate your brief and targets to futureproof your assets and help secure a brighter future for our planet.

Key Services

Strategic sustainability

 

  • Sustainability frameworks & implementation support
  • Sustainable development brief
  • Sustainability Statements
  • Due diligence & peer review
  • Climate resilience
  • Ethical supply chain & environmental product declaration advice
  • Carbon offset guidance
  • SBTi compliance

Building performance & decarbonisation

 

  • Energy strategy for planning
  • Building Regulations compliance
  • Operational energy modelling TM54 & NABERS UK
  • Overheating & thermal comfort analysis
  • Whole life carbon assessment
  • CRREM reporting
  • Net Zero alignment & verification
  • Asset carbon tracking & intervention analysis
  • Heat network viability studies
  • Masterplan & portfolio decarbonisation strategies
  • In-use modelling & reporting

Building Circularity

 

  • Pre-redevelopment audit
  • Planning pre-demolition audit
  • Circular Economy Statement
  • Adaptability studies
  • Disassembly studies
  • Construction efficiency & material sourcing
  • Materials Passports guidance and deployment
  • Material reuse strategy support
  • Operational waste management plan
  • Site waste management plan

Building certifications

 

  • BREEAM certifications
  • BREEAM Infrastructure certification
  • BREEAM Communities certification
  • BREEAM evidence reports
  • DREAM certifications
  • Home Quality Mark
  • WELL Building Standard certification
  • Fitwel certification
  • Passivhaus

Expert view: Optimising asset carbon performance

Our sustainability experts Dr. Ankit Singh and Emily Wingrove run the rule over the UK Net Zero Building Standard, outlining its role in supporting our industry’s aspirations for delivering a Net Zero built environment. They detail how this can be applied to assets to minimise carbon impact and shed light on how we’re harnessing this to drive creativity in design, all whilst optimising performance in operation.

Sustainability Services

Based in key locations around the UK, our team of sustainability experts is delivering leading-edge specialist support for a huge range of schemes across every sector.

Dr Ankit Singh
Director
Sustainability

James Barker
Head of Sustainability – North

Emily Wingrove
Head of Sustainability – Midlands

Ruth Marsh
Head of Sustainability – South

Sophie Murray
Head of Sustainability – South-West and
Defence

“The Waterman team has been integral in helping us create and bring to life the truly exceptional Edenica scheme which pushes the boundaries of sustainable design.”

Maxwell Shand, Co-founder, YardNine

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