our approach to sustainability

Our team believes that sustainability is key to any project and therefore has to be one of the main drivers of the design approach.

We believe sustainability issues include:

Incentives for worker car share
Incentives for bicycle users
Minimising energy costs
Maximising natural light
Use of natural cross ventilation
Use of heavy mass construction
Maximising landscape and site design, for example: green roofs
Developing new energy efficient materials
Innovative use of traditional materials
Use of renewable sources
Reduction in pollution
Use of geo-thermal energy
Use of passive solar gain
Re-use of grey water
Sourcing local materials

These ideas are currently being actively pursued on all new build and where possible, refurbishment projects.