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With the built environment accounting for a third of global emissions, BDP recognises the urgent and critical role we must play in addressing the Climate Challenge.
Now is the time we must fundamentally shift our perspective on how we see and use buildings, reimagining our internal approaches to design in the hopes that we create an external ripple effect. Alongside advocating for change, we acknowledge the importance of embodying this mindset within the fabric of our business practices. Sustainability and sustainable thinking must become the golden thread that runs through how we work and what we create.
Explore how we are embarking on this journey through internal initiatives, the expertise of our people, our work, and our external commitments.
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Scaling
Sustainability
Our design capability and processes must be able to respond positively to the climate emergency. While we have an effective consultancy of Sustainability experts, in order to be impactful, we need to scale up the sustainable capabilities of our entire practice.
To address this need, in 2023, our employee innovation group BDP Lab posed the following question: What is a barrier that prevents you from implementing sustainable practices on your projects, and how can we help you eliminate it?
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Our Science-Based
Targets
To support the global climate goal to half worldwide emissions before 2030, BDP has set Science Based Targets (SBTs) through the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi).
Setting these reaffirms BDP’s commitment to addressing climate change and taking proactive measures to rapidly reduce our contribution as a business to greenhouse gas emissions.
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Our expertise
and Insights
As the global community faces the urgent challenges posed by climate change, the role of Civil and Structural engineers has never been more crucial. In our groundbreaking report, we unveil the innovative strategies and forward-thinking approaches that form the cornerstone of our commitment to tackling climate change head-on.
Be brave
By Golnaz Ighany
Architect-Sustainability Expert, Golnaz Ighany, explains the rise of regenerative design and discusses the shift in mindset required to make it work.
REIMAGINING A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE:
Adaptive reuse in the UAE
By Craig Howard
As we look to COP28 for a commitment to sustainable practices from the world’s leaders, we showcase how we have repurposed buildings to deliver sustainable spaces that celebrate the UAE's past and drive its future.
Low Carbon Now
The World Green Building Council has stated that all new buildings are to be net zero operational carbon with a 40% reduction in embodied carbon by 2030. But, what can we do NOW to get there?
Written by Michelle Xuereb, Andrew Geldard, Lisa Spensieri, Louise Boscardin and Peter Song.
Decarbonising existing offices
By Chris Croly
In almost every existing office there are a number of straightforward, low-cost steps that can be taken to reduce energy consumption.
BDP has released the following free guide that can be used to identify opportunities to achieve energy savings in existing offices, without requiring significant investment.
The Sci-Tech Retrofit Revolution
By Keith Papa
Science and technology buildings that include laboratories and research areas and facilities are notoriously carbon-hungry buildings.
When we start to analyse the brief for a science, technology or research facility, we take a holistic approach to carbon reduction that encompasses all of the many uses the building might encounter.
Green Infrastructure
River Regeneration
In this report, our Singapore studio shine a light on our green infrastructure approach to riverside regeneration, which recognises that the relationship between cities throughout the world and the rivers that run through them are often considered fundamental to their urban development, because of their profound interactions with both humans and nature.
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Our Commitment
to Net Zero
Considering all impacts of a project at the outset, and maintaining scrutiny throughout enables us to maximise the positive impact development can deliver.
Our sustainability team offer a wide range of consultancy, assessment, design and management support services. Sitting at the heart of BDP's operation, we are able to utilise skills from across the practice. We possess specialist expertise in life-cycle assessment, circular economy and resource management, energy and carbon consultancy and ecology services and have expertise in developing, implementing and monitoring bespoke development environmental strategies.
Each year, we demonstrate our commitment to becoming a net zero company with revisions to our sustainability policy, and provide a comprehensive review and analysis of our environmental performance across all of our UK and Ireland studios.
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Sustainable
projects in practice
We are actively engaged with industry to ensure that we are contributing to the national and global agenda, and that our design approach continues to deliver progressive, practical and financially sound solutions in response to environmental, social and economic challenges.
Explore some of our most sustainable projects below:
Rising to the Climate Challenge Projects
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Our sustainability team offer a wide range of consultancy, assessment, design and management support services. Sitting at the heart of BDP's operation, we are able to utilise skills from across the practice. We possess specialist expertise in life-cycle assessment, circular economy and resource management, energy and carbon consultancy and ecology services and have expertise in developing, implementing and monitoring bespoke development environmental strategies.
Tackling climate change is always at the forefront of our minds and we apply this moral conscience to every project that we embark on. We have taken proactive steps to stay ahead of the conversation, offering industry insights from our sustainability experts across the globe and across our different disciplines.