Our office is always working to reduce any negative impacts from our projects on the natural environment.
Strategies we use to achieve this include:

• encouraging clients to build more efficient and heavily used spaces
• employing ‘loose fit’ design principles and readily adaptable construction methods wherever possible
• designing spaces for passive year round comfort with minimum heating and cooling requirements
• specifying low embodied energy materials and locally sourced and manufactured fixtures where possible
• reusing and re-purposing elements within renovation projects to minimise waste during construction
• employing modular design where appropriate to minimise cutting of standardised materials thus reducing construction waste
• helping clients to identify and build only what is necessary to avoid extravagant use of resources
• employing on site water harvesting and waste treatment/management where possible
• employing on site energy generation where possible
• sourcing low ‘life cycle’ energy appliances and fixtures
• specifying low maintenance materials with minimum finishing required
• specifying materials in their natural unfinished state where appropriate
• striving for high environmental and psychological comfort through excellence in design and construction, thus ensuring our projects will have a long life
• understanding that sometimes the best thing to do is nothing at all