Sustainability Commitment

Our Sustainability Approach

Long-Term Design Thinking

We design buildings with a minimum fifty-year performance horizon. Structural systems are selected for durability and adaptability. Material specifications prioritise longevity over short-term cost efficiency. Floor-to-floor heights are set to allow future adaptation of building services without structural intervention.

Community and Social Value

We assess the social impact of every building we design — its relationship to the public realm, its contribution to the streetscape, its accessibility to people of all abilities, and its potential to generate or diminish community value over time. We do not design buildings that serve only their occupants at the expense of the people who will live alongside them.

Climate Resilience

Our designs account for projected climate conditions over the building's operational life — increasing temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, and the need for passive cooling strategies that do not depend on mechanical systems that may not be viable in a resource-constrained future.

Supply Chain Responsibility

We seek to specify materials and systems from suppliers whose environmental and labour practices meet the standards we hold ourselves to. We do not knowingly specify products whose production involves practices we would not accept in our own studio operations.

Reporting and Accountability

We track the environmental performance of completed projects where monitoring data is available to us, and we use this data to improve the passive design strategies we apply to future commissions. We publish our sustainability commitments publicly and make ourselves accountable to them.