Our Committment

For businesses across the globe, there is much work to be done to achieve a better and more sustainable future. Things cannot continue as they are and there is no room for ‘business as usual’.

As a built environment business that prides itself on understanding ‘context’, showing we understand this global context is important to us. In fact, it’s one of our business priorities.

We have committed to taking a more holistic approach to embedding sustainability into our business model for some time and we’ve applied a great deal of global thinking about the impact of our work - from the projects we carry out to how we operate as an organisation.

To help bring some structure to our commitment and with much input from across the practice, we chose to align our business with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With our multidisciplinary nature and the breadth of work we undertake – both in the UK and overseas - the SDGs are a good fit for us. Our culture was also an important factor in deciding the best approach to adopt.

By aligning ourselves with the SDGs, we can monitor and analyse our performance and ensure continuous improvement. To help, we have developed a toolkit to review certain projects we work on as well as our general business operations.