As organisations are transitioning from short-term decision-making to long-term preparation for a new reality, underpinned by the ESG agenda as the driving force, our teams offer the expertise and knowledge to assist you in reaching your carbon reduction goals for your estate. We can help you set new standards for low energy use, carbon emissions and impact on natural resources.
Our low-carbon retrofit offering will ensure that your building stays ahead of energy usage legislation and maximises the performance of your estates and to meet your commitments and deliver long-term return on investment.
Where our present assets meet future carbon commitments, ISG attends FOOTPRINT+ 2023
Taking place in Brighton on 6-8 June, property conference FOOTPRINT+ welcomes built environment stakeholders and experts from across the UK to explore state of the art techniques on carbon reduction, for a zero carbon future.We’re committed to helping our clients transform their buildings to operate in a low carbon manner, accelerating your pathway to net zero whilst ensuring you’re positioned to meet immediate minimum energy efficiency standard (MEES) legislation.
We’re also doing our bit by committing to achieving net zero carbon emissions in our operations by 2030. For more on our carbon reduction plan and approach to working with our clients, consultant teams and supply chain partners, click here.
World-first sustainable office retrofit for the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), The Entopia Centre, Cambridge
A partnership approach
We work collaboratively to fully understand your carbon reduction ambitions and apply our deep knowledge and delivery expertise to ensure you meet your targets and bring certainty to your investment.
We create bespoke plans for organisations looking to realise carbon and financial savings, with key performance indicators embedded to bring assurance on your pathway.
As well as delivering low-carbon retrofit solutions, our partnering approach means we can stay with you from inception to project delivery and beyond, so that you can ensure your asset performance meets your aspirations and shapes your legacy.
Our flexible approach means we can support you on every step of your project life cycle to help decarbonise your estate, or work with you at any phase, from evaluation to delivery or long-term asset performance management.
ISG's latest research and insight report ‘Sustainable Buildings Monitor: Redefining value’
Establishing a purpose-driven way to measure the true value of property.
‘Dispelling the myths around retrofit. We know what must be done, so what can be?’
Hosted at BT's One Braham Street, we celebrated the launch event of our new service offering, low-carbon retrofit. The event saw the panel debate some of the challenges and opportunities surrounding the retrofit agenda.
Watch the full event hereChaired by ISG's Head of Sustainability, Anna Foden, we also welcomed:
- Peter Kelly, Group Director of Sustainable Operations, ISG
- James Hepburn, Principal, BDP
- Matt Cotton, Director, Twin and Earth
- Ben Humphries, Director, Architype
- Hugh Dugdale, Associate Director, Elementa
“Managing change requires consistency and guardianship. We must change the way we work and stay longer. It must never be a case of fit-and-forget.”
This bold statement set the context for the discussion. The consensus being that we all have an important role to play, but critically, none of us can succeed in isolation.
The panel used the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership’s ‘Entopia Building’ to dispel the myth that a deep carbon retrofit could not be achieved without inflating cost or programme. Setting out intent at the earliest design phases and being willing to compromise were agreed as key, and only possible by reimagining our own disciplines, how we come together and crucially, when.
There was a call for a design process led by user intent that shifts the focus from aesthetics to building physics. A process where knowledge is shared along the value chain and investors have a clear view of which assets meet their ESG criteria. And where contractors and consultants collaborate at every stage of the lifecycle, upskilling supply chains and occupiers on how to manage a building to perform.
The upswelling of consciousness around the importance of building performance, heightened by the current energy crisis, and pending BEIS legislation are welcome progress. However, with so much change and alternative metrics of success, people can be paralysed by choice. As an industry, we must promote greater industry participation with Government and help guide clients through change, as ultimately, our knowledge must be made available for all.
Watch the full event recording below:
With Net Zero at the heart, Arup’s blueprint for workplace design is driving a paradigm shift where ethics meets good business.
Arup, London, UK
