Energy

Buro Happold’s Energy sector team is committed to sustainability, providing robust engineering solutions to reducing energy demand and use in the built environment. 

Going beyond the conventional ‘mean, lean, green’ approach, we strive to develop efficient environmental solutions that include important issues such as productivity, wellbeing and longevity in adapting climates. 

This is achieved through our close client relationships, desire to understand the end users of our buildings and appreciation of local resources and meteorological data.

We offer a vast range of services when dealing with energy in the built environment from individual occupation energy use analysis to city scale energy masterplans. Our team of specialist consultants are qualified in a range of environmental assessment tools such as BREEAM, LEED and Estidama.

Our energy work also covers community scale and city scale systems, as well as policy development, procurement and economic modelling. We offer end-to-end services from feasibility studies, business case development, procurement, detailed design and site supervision. Our team of utilities experts can also design the heating, electricity and cooling networks needed to distribute energy in the most efficient manner.

We have experts in a range of efficient, renewable and passive technologies, enabling us to influence both building design and policy developments. We also offer post occupancy evaluation and embodied energy analysis, which enables us to provide tailored energy reduction strategies based upon the actual building performance and intensity of materials.

Our portfolio of projects covers both new build and refurbishments at all scales.

Event

28/11/2011

The UK government has redefined zero carbon and the new description is slightly Orwellian! Some commentators believe that the costs of zero carbon buildings make them impossible to justify whilst others believe that we’ll never...

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23/11/2011

Framed by Stuart Magruder, VP/ President-elect, AIA Los Angeles and moderated by David Abel - publisher and editor-in-chief of THE PLANNING REPORT, the discussion drew participants from across the Los Angeles architectural and...

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20/10/2011

Buro Happold’s Energy Director, Alasdair Young, will be chairing Energy Conversations on 9th November at The Building Centre in London. A series of talks, debates and discussions around the supply and use of energy,...

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31/05/2011

The Hawaii Preparatory Academy Energy Laboratory is the third project in the world to receive “Living” status under the Living Building Challenge, showcasing a cost-effective passive design approach that facilitates...

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Project

31/05/2011

Buro Happold has been leading a £140,000 study sponsored by the UK Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) examining the feasibility of capturing and using large quantities of waste heat from power stations and industrial processes...

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31/05/2011

‘Retrofit for the Future’ is a government funded competition launched by the UK Technology Strategy Board (TSB) in March 2009. The aim of the competition is to develop a host of innovative, scalable whole house refurbishment...

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26/05/2011

The buildings of Westborough Primary School have evolved through a fragmented and piecemeal series of building additions and adaptations since the school was first opened in 1915. One of the most innovative projects has been the...

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26/05/2011

The University of Salford is committed to the Campus Plan 20-year vision that is contributing to the wider regeneration of the city of Salford. The plan aims to provide a sustainable, accessible place for students and staff to...

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04/05/2011

Lynn University is one of the most ambitious universities in North America. Independent, co-educational and innovative, the mainly residential 3,500 students at Lynn benefit from one of the finest 21st century learning...

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17/06/2010

Teams set up their innovative designs for the first time in Madrid Leading up to the first Solar Decathlon Europe event, international multidisciplinary engineering consultancy Buro Happold has been supporting the...

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07/06/2010

Joint pilot project advances construction industry’s contribution to achieving a zero carbon economy by 2050 Global companies – architectural practice Woods Bagot and multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy Buro...

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06/05/2010

New ‘Approved Documents’ for Building Regs to come into force in October David Kingstone, associate at international multidisciplinary engineering consultancy Buro Happold, said: “We welcome the new emphasis on energy...

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05/02/2010

Expert urges bigger thinking to meet UK emissions targets Alasdair Young, senior engineer at global multidisciplinary engineering consultancy Buro Happold, welcomes the Government’s announcement on renewables. However,...

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21/04/2009

Alasdair Young, Senior Engineer at Buro Happold, provides reaction to today’s budget. “Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plants have been subsidised by an exemption from the Climate Change Levy - the tax on...

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Sector Director

Alasdair

Alasdair Young

Associate


Regional Leaders

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Matthew Smith

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