Unlock greater value for your assets, projects and communities by creating low carbon, sustainable and beautifully performing buildings. With organisations facing an urgent need to respond to both the climate crisis and society’s evolving needs, informed decisions are essential for creating positive commercial, environmental and social outcomes. Our teams are committed to reducing carbon emissions, enhancing health and wellbeing, and promoting operational excellence throughout the building lifecycle.

Whether you’re developing new assets, retrofitting or adapting existing ones, or optimising your estate/portfolio, we help you achieve your decarbonisation and broader ESG goals by providing strategy and solutions.

Investing in sustainable decarbonisation strategies and designs could lead to benefits for your business and help deliver truly valuable outcomes

How we support you across the project lifecycle

At WSP, we proactively engage in projects at the earliest stages, collaborating with clients and the supply chain to achieve decarbonisation objectives. We can support you at every stage, from the business case and early concepts, through planning, design, delivery, and post-occupancy.

Our comprehensive services include strategic advisory, economic assessments, accreditations, strategic planning, lean engineering, construction management, and post-occupancy analysis. We effectively measure carbon in our designs and use whole life carbon assessments to deliver the most appropriate solutions.

We leverage data and digital technologies to inform decision-making and, ensure alignment with sustainability goals. Our multidisciplinary across- sector expertise enables us to leverage innovation and pioneer emerging carbon-reduction techniques.

Decarbonisation in Action

We provide site assessments and optioneering studies helping to inform your business case to unlock funding for building upgrades or transformation. We are experienced in retrofitting and adapting buildings of all types, offering solutions to improve the asset use while significantly reducing energy consumption and transitioning to sustainable, green energy sources.

No matter the building types within your estate or portfolio, we can help you devise a strategy and roadmap to decarbonise and optimise your assets. Our expertise enables us to assist you with your risk management and help you make the right investment decisions.

Our teams provide strategic advice and business cases to unlock funding and help navigate planning requirements. Prioritising lean design principles from the outset, we deliver practical and efficient design solutions that offer a competitive edge, and make the greatest use of innovative technologies and new materials.

Measuring Impact Through Digital Solutions

Achieving better buildings that propel us to a net zero future requires us to do things differently. It requires us to pioneer new solutions and challenge conventional methods and ways of working. Data and digital technologies will be at the core of this transformation, from initial design to in-use performance.

Decarbonisation Requires a Shift in How We Approach Projects

We always seek to innovate in the way we plan, design and deliver projects to improve outcomes for our clients. Read our latest insights to find out more.