By decarbonising our buildings and assets, we can reshape our future with healthier, more resilient and smarter spaces while creating energy cost savings and a more robust economy for people and the planet to thrive.
Decarbonising our built environment represents a clear pathway to achieving necessary global climate goals with benefits that reach far beyond reducing our emissions and our reliance on fossil fuels – and these efforts are happening across all sectors and scales. Beyond the building stock, local, regional and global policies are being created that have far-reaching implications for clients worldwide.
Buro Happold is at the forefront of driving the net zero carbon agenda globally. We work across disciplines with a systematic approach to help clients – whether private organisations, universities, or entire cities and regions – move quickly from assessment to action while drawing on local knowledge of standards and frameworks. We are committed to a deep examination of our clients’ operations, an unflinching assessment of gaps, and a plan that can be implemented and aligned to each client’s values and culture.
Approaches and solutions can vary in different regions. But whether this work is known as decarbonisation, decarbonization or working towards net zero carbon, our subject matter expertise – combined with deep technical engineering and a culture of innovation – allows our teams to propose and implement solutions that make a transition to a new energy landscape possible.
Our approach
Over the past two decades, Buro Happold has consulted with private organisations and public authorities across the globe on projects that meet some of the most aggressive sustainability targets to date. We pioneer new and audacious – as well as practical and proven – solutions that span buildings, campuses and cities.
Buro Happold helps clients with the vision, the technical understanding and roadmap, the economic case and funding sources and the engagement across clients’ organisations to achieve decarbonisation targets.
Our strategy work benefits from our deep and technical subject matter expertise, while our implementation work benefits from our advisory experience.
Global expertise, local knowledge
Wherever you or your project are in the world, our decarbonisation consultants are familiar with local standards and frameworks, enabling us to deliver advice that meets the relevant requirements. In many instances we don’t just follow the guidelines, we help write them.
So whether we’re collaborating with organisations such as the UKGBC on zero carbon buildings framework, the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance on district-scale heat networks or in the US with C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, Science Based Targets (SBT), or the Carbon Leadership Forum (CLF) among many others, the support we provide will be tailored, up-to-date and highly relevant.
Supporting you at every stage
Strategy and planning
Do you want to develop clear goals and a timeline to reduce emissions?
Design and construction
Do you want to implement projects to reduce carbon?
Operate and optimise
Do you want to fine-tune the strategies you’ve implemented?
Track and report
Do you want to quantify and verify carbon emissions achieved?
Our projects
Why and how are we assisting with decarbonization of the Empire State Building?
Delivering net zero carbon buildings and a circular economy for UCL
Leicestershire County Council Net Zero Pathways and Scope 3 Emissions Study
City of Los Angeles Decarbonization
Port of Tyne Decarbonisation Study
City of Los Angeles Decarbonization
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