Bringing technical wisdom to brief setting, with clear visual presentation and facilitated workshops with key stakeholders to get to the right brief for your project, and the right sustainability targets to lead to best outcomes.  

Early-stage investigations to understand overshadowing, solar access and Passivhaus Heat Loss Form Factor (HLFF) help guide early architectural massing and site planning to provide best-value outcomes later in the design process. 

Creating route-maps for decarbonisation: carbon masterplans can be for single buildings or complex heritage sites with multiple buildings, and anything in between. Each plan is carefully crafted to suit client budget and timescales, and rooted in the best available technical wisdom. Future energy markets and grid decarbonisation are carefully evaluated to guide evidence-based decision making.  

Is the Passivhaus standard right for your new build or retrofit project? We will dispel myths and help establish both the technical and financial viability of Passivhaus. We use an agile approach and clear communication to help facilitate rapid decision making. 

Strategic decisions in whole-life carbon can include whether to demolish or retain existing structures, what level of new construction to consider, and with what overall materials strategy. Our early advice simplifies this complex area of building procurement, enabling informed decision making and target setting.  

We have extensive experience of large-scale and complex Passivhaus buildings, and use this acquired technical wisdom to support the delivery of Passivhaus on the most demanding projects. We offer full concept, technical and certification design support within a multi-disciplinary team, including energy modelling and reporting, thermal bridge optimisation and detailing, as well as site duties.  

Conducting detailed, thorough whole-life carbon evaluations throughout design development to ensure best carbon outcomes, and then contributing to contractor procurement to deliver on the design intent.

Retrofit projects are complex and require attention to detail. Using the Passivhaus approach we ensure that interventions into existing buildings are robust, buildable and sensitive to existing architecture, place and heritage value.  

Healthy and productive building occupants need access to good natural light. Our design support service assists architects in delivering best daylight while minimising unwanted summer solar gains that lead to overheating. We balance desirable winter solar gains with avoidance of glare to deliver visually comfortable and healthy spaces.   

WELL is the preeminent global standard for human health and wellbeing in buildings. Our design support service ensures that projects can be certified to this rigorous standard, delivering best-in-class health and comfort outcomes. Early gap analysis can determine viability and possible impacts as well as best value paths to certification. 

Leveraging our extensive expertise as Passivhaus Designers of large and complex Passivhaus projects, we provide a gold-standard certification service tailored specifically to these building types . Our goal is to provide comprehensive support to our clients throughout the certification process, from RIBA Workstage 2/3 to completion and beyond.