Environmental
Intelligence
If you would like to work with our Environmental Intelligence team, contact Louisa Bowles
Construction Monitoring Role
When you’ve set your aspirational sustainability brief you need to make sure it is delivered on site. Key to this is team collaboration, setting clear goals and a monitoring process. The EI team cut through the terminology and produce clear documentation and monitoring processes to ensure the client, design team, contractor and facilities management are clear on their responsibilities. We create tailored data collection processes to allow real time monitoring and early identification of any risk to the final performance against numerous sustainability metrics and KPIs.
District East is a nature-led life sciences development in Cambridge, designed to attract world-class innovative research tenants while remaining open to the community. Our EI team has crafted and managed the sustainability brief for the phased masterplan and buildings. This has included low energy-in-use and embodied carbon targets, biodiversity net gain, circular economy, transport, water, and a range of certifications including BREEAM, WELL, Fitwel, RESET Air, and WiredScore. The result was a coordinated design with detailed contractual documentation clearly defining roles, responsibilities and performance during construction to deliver the required performance.
Laurance Townsend, project manager at 3PM said: “Hawkins Brown has taken a more innovative approach in sustainability management than most practices. Their management of the precontract period ensured alignment of the design with the team, with client aspirations and with contracting market; establishing a first of its kind fully detailed employer’s requirement document that is a clear and concise route map to achieving a successful construction phase.”
Christina Stafylaki of contractor B+K said: “B+K’s collaboration with Hawkins\Brown during the design period has been impeccable. Their overarching role encompassing all sustainability accreditations has positively contributed to a project with multiple and complex environmental and sustainability credentials. Being a multidisciplinary practice has ensured sustainability and architecture are well merged contributing to a seamless design.”