![Green trees next to commercial building - sustainable building](/imported-media/2394/sustainability-commercial-office-buildings-1600x1000.jpg?width=830&height=533&quality=90)
Sustainability and climate resilience
Resilience assessments and sustainable development solutions to help you respond to the challenges of climate change.
No Content Set
Exception:
Website.Models.ViewModels.Components.General.Banners.BannerComponentVm
Services
Technical services and consulting solutions for clients in the property, energy, transport, water, resources, defence and government sectors.
Advisory and management consulting
Communications, creative and digital
Design and development
Environment
Exploration and development
Health, safety and risk
Laboratories
Oceans and coastal
Planning and approvals
Project and program management
Training
Water services
Advisory and management consulting
澳门玄机图 advisory and management consulting services for businesses and projects, including economics, due diligence, transaction advisory, ESG and more.
Communications, creative and digital
Communications, creative and digital solutions for governments and businesses including community engagement, design, research, data and software development.
Design and development
Technical and consulting services for buildings, infrastructure and cities including architecture, engineering, surveying, landscape architecture and urban design.
Environment
Environmental consulting solutions for responsible, resilient and sustainable development including impact assessment, ecology and contamination management.
Exploration and development
Technical services for energy projects including seismic operations, drilling and wellsite geology, reservoir management, independent reporting and more.
Health, safety and risk
From safety case development to emergency response strategy, discover services and expertise to reduce your risk profile and keep people safe.
Laboratories
Scientific analysis services for AgroScience, food safety, workplace exposure, environmental analysis and contaminants of concern in Europe and the UK.
Oceans and coastal
澳门玄机图 technical solutions for marine infrastructure and offshore development including coastal engineering, marine biology metocean science, and emergency response.
Planning and approvals
Development strategy, planning and approval solutions for buildings, infrastructure, transport and city projects and investments.
Project and program management
Project management solutions for the most complex building, infrastructure, organisational change, and systems projects.
Training
Specialist training services, programs and accreditation for health, safety and risk, project management, and energy sector capability development.
Water services
Solutions for the water sector including quality monitoring, modelling, infrastructure design, engineering and asset management.
Sectors
World-leading technical and consulting solutions for clients in the property, energy, transport, resources, water, defence and government sectors.
Property
Energy
Transport
Defence and government services
Water
Resources
Property
Design, technical and advisory services for the property sector, including residential, commercial, retail, industrial, health, education and data centre projects.
Energy
Energy exploration, development and optimisation solutions for renewables, power and gas networks, energy storage, oil and gas and nuclear facilties.
Transport
Smart, safe and sustainable transport infrastructure development services and advice for rail, aviation, port and road clients and projects.
Defence and government services
Expertise for defence capability and infrastructure investments, security and safety projects, and information and telecommunications initatives.
Water
Discover our industry-leading strategy, design and management solutions for wastewater, groundwater, flooding, drainage and network infrastructure.
Resources
Commercial data, design advice and technical management solutions for safe and environmentally responsible resource exploration and operations.
Technical services and consulting solutions for clients in the property, energy, transport, water, resources, defence and government sectors.
Advisory and management consulting
Communications, creative and digital
澳门玄机图 advisory and management consulting services for businesses and projects, including economics, due diligence, transaction advisory, ESG and more.
Project investment and finance
Explore Advisory and management consultingCommunications, creative and digital solutions for governments and businesses including community engagement, design, research, data and software development.
Creative, visualisation and immersive design
Data management, analytics and insights
Explore Communications, creative and digitalTechnical and consulting services for buildings, infrastructure and cities including architecture, engineering, surveying, landscape architecture and urban design.
Environmental consulting solutions for responsible, resilient and sustainable development including impact assessment, ecology and contamination management.
Acoustics, noise and vibration
Contaminated land and remediation
Environmental Impact Assessment
Environmental permitting and compliance
Sustainability and climate resilience
Explore EnvironmentTechnical services for energy projects including seismic operations, drilling and wellsite geology, reservoir management, independent reporting and more.
Asset and reservoir management
Drilling support and wellsite geology
Field development planning and operations
Reserves and independent reporting
Seismic operations management and support
Exploration and appraisal studies
Unitisation and equity determination
Unexploded ordnances (UXO) and Explosive remnants of war (ERW)
Explore Exploration and developmentFrom safety case development to emergency response strategy, discover services and expertise to reduce your risk profile and keep people safe.
Asbestos and hazardous materials management
Construction (design and management) principal designer
Health, safety, risk assessment and management
Explore Health, safety and riskScientific analysis services for AgroScience, food safety, workplace exposure, environmental analysis and contaminants of concern in Europe and the UK.
澳门玄机图 technical solutions for marine infrastructure and offshore development including coastal engineering, marine biology metocean science, and emergency response.
Commercial fisheries advice and services
24/7 response modelling and support services
Marine life mitigation - PSOs, MMOs and PAM
Metocean, Science and Technology
Explore Oceans and coastalDevelopment strategy, planning and approval solutions for buildings, infrastructure, transport and city projects and investments.
Project management solutions for the most complex building, infrastructure, organisational change, and systems projects.
Cost management / quantity surveying
Explore Project and program managementSpecialist training services, programs and accreditation for health, safety and risk, project management, and energy sector capability development.
Capability development and training for the energy sector
Explore TrainingSolutions for the water sector including quality monitoring, modelling, infrastructure design, engineering and asset management.
Water quality modelling and monitoring
Water and wastewater network modelling and asset management
Water and wastewater infrastructure design
Explore Water services
World-leading technical and consulting solutions for clients in the property, energy, transport, resources, water, defence and government sectors.
Design, technical and advisory services for the property sector, including residential, commercial, retail, industrial, health, education and data centre projects.
Energy exploration, development and optimisation solutions for renewables, power and gas networks, energy storage, oil and gas and nuclear facilties.
Smart, safe and sustainable transport infrastructure development services and advice for rail, aviation, port and road clients and projects.
Expertise for defence capability and infrastructure investments, security and safety projects, and information and telecommunications initatives.
Information and telecommunications
Explore Defence and government servicesDiscover our industry-leading strategy, design and management solutions for wastewater, groundwater, flooding, drainage and network infrastructure.
UK and Ireland regulated water asset management
Explore WaterCommercial data, design advice and technical management solutions for safe and environmentally responsible resource exploration and operations.
We define, design and manage projects that create shared value to a complex, urbanising and resource-scarce world.
Brilliant minds finding solutions to complex problems, made easy to understand. Making complex easy.
Sustainability
Ireland
Over the last 150 years, our industrial economy has been dominated by a one-way model of production and consumption in which goods are manufactured from raw materials, sold, used, and then incinerated or discarded to landfills. This approach is unsustainable by its very nature. This linear structure is based on two large assumptions: boundless availability of resources (energy and raw materials) and a limitless regenerative capacity of the Earth.
By 2050, the population on Earth will achieve approximately 9 billion people, and unless we can find a way to decouple economic growth from the rate of consumption of natural resources, the economy will require about three times the resources we currently use. This trend will increase CO2听emissions and waste production and push us beyond the earth鈥檚 regenerative capacity. In the face of the global socioeconomic and environmental challenges, there is a fundamental need for an alternative to our current linear economic mode. We need to embrace the 鈥楥ircular Economy鈥.
鈥淭he circular economy refers to an industrial economy that is restorative by intention; aims to rely on renewable energy; minimises, tracks, and eliminates the use of toxic chemicals; and eradicates waste through careful design.鈥 (Ellen MacArthur Foundation)
The circular economy approach will use less resources and energy, while at the same time being more carbon efficient and maximising waste reduction. It means designing out waste from the beginning, rather than relying solely on waste recycling at the end of the chain.听
Policies such as the European Green Deal (2019), the EU Circular Economy Plan (2020) and Ireland鈥檚 Waste Action Plan for a Circular Economy (2020-2025) are all aiming for a climate neutral circular economy by 2050, halting biodiversity loss. 听The circular economy will have net positive benefits in terms of GDP growth and job creation; applying ambitious circular economy measures in Europe can increase the EU's GDP by an additional 0.5% by 2030 creating around 700,000 new jobs.
According to Frans Timmermans, Executive Vice-President for the European Green Deal: 鈥淭oday, our economy is still mostly linear, with only 12% of secondary materials and resources being brought back into the economy. Many products break down too easily, cannot be reused, repaired or recycled, or are made for single use only. There is a huge potential鈥 to transform the way products are made and empower consumers to make sustainable choices for their own benefit and that of the environment.鈥
听
Extraction of resources for buildings and infrastructure 鈥 think about aggregates, cement, steel, aluminium, insulation products 鈥 all have a heavy toll on the planet.听 Biodiversity loss is affected by the winning of resources for these products.听 It is imperative now that we look at options throughout the project lifecycle to make the sustainable choices at every step. The choices we make now will determine how durable the asset is, how adaptable it is, and how easy this process will be.听 Our challenge is to try to live more 'Lego-like lives' in which we break up, reconfigure and create new structures from old.听 That will ease pressure on extraction of new resources.
Over the coming years the construction sector is going to play a major role in the circular economy. It is estimated that the construction industry accounts for approximately 60% materials use and one third of all waste arisings. 听In 澳门玄机图 we are undertaking circular economy training and research to explore how our design teams can implement more and more circular solutions.听 As well as doubling down on traditional efficient design measures, we are increasingly using digital design to drive resource efficiency.
Sandyford is a new business district in the foothills of the Dublin Mountains, home to international employers such as Microsoft. 澳门玄机图 designed the high-level water supply scheme serving the area for Irish Water. A number of deep excavations into coarse the characteristic yellow granite bedrock were required for pumping stations. Rather than excavate and dispose of the rubble, 澳门玄机图 asked the architect to incorporate the granite boulders as the external walls for the utility structures in the schemes, including the prominent pumping station picture, adjacent to the local LUAS light rail platform.听
Aoife Carty, the 澳门玄机图 lead engineer explains:
鈥渨e developed a neat solution 鈥 there was no need to send truckloads of waste offsite, meaning we saved on transport costs and emissions, but more importantly we achieved an attractive and durable finish on the pumping station, using local resources鈥.听
Circular thinking can and should be applied across the entire project life cycle, however the greatest opportunities are at the early stages i.e. to design out waste and carefully consider our design and material choices. According to 鈥淐ircular Economy 鈥 Principles for Building Design鈥 (EU Commission) There are five design principles that should be taken into account with every project:
The design can be rationalised in order to omit unnecessary features and use less resources. 听We need to consider whether any elements of the existing site be reused, this can apply to existing features, demolition material, topography of the site or even the soil.听
The materials that we choose can be of vital importance. If we can use materials with some recycled content or incorporate waste surplus from other projects or demolition works we will cut down hugely on waste and resource consumption.
If we improve the ease with which buildings can be deconstructed at the end of their useful life; by using materials that can be easily separated, we can increase reusability of materials and cut down resource requirements for demolition.
We should be looking to implement a modular design approach wherever possible which would allow simple upgrade to services without the whole system becoming obsolete.听 Off-site construction is a means to achieve low levels of waste.
It is possible to repurpose existing buildings or features to avoid creating waste.听 With imagination and ingenuity, beautiful buildings can emerge from old structures.
There are numerous potential benefits with the transition to a circular economy including material cost savings, reduced price volatility, improved security of supply, employment creation, as well as reduced environmental pressures and impacts.听 Circular economy thinking is long term planning. It must cut across all phases of project development, from design to delivery and use.听 Early adoption is vital, to ensure a sustainable outcome.