Our Approach

# How we run
an engagement.

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STEP 01
Understand the objective

Before any modelling, we establish what the project is actually trying to achieve: a regulatory approval, an investor requirement, an operating cost target, a reputational position, or all four. The technical scope follows from that, not from a standard service list.

STEP 02
Establish the baseline

A defensible starting point: the boundary, the assumptions, the emission factors, the climate file, the operating profile. Documented and agreed at the outset, because every subsequent result is measured against it.

STEP 03
Model and test options

Simulation across the disciplines that apply, covering energy, daylight, carbon and cost, run as a set of comparable options rather than a single scheme. Where the option space is large, parametric and AI-assisted workflows widen the search.

STEP 04
Recommend, with the trade-off visible

Findings are presented as a decision, not a data dump: what we recommend, what it costs, what it delivers, what it depends on, and what the alternative would have been. Assumptions are stated so the recommendation can be challenged.

STEP 05
Carry it through delivery

Recommendations are tracked through specification, tender, submittal review and construction. A measure that is designed but not procured has delivered nothing, and this is where most performance is lost.

STEP 06
Verify in operation

Once the asset is running, measured performance is compared against the model. The gap is investigated, reported, and fed back into the next project. This is what keeps the modelling honest.

The recurring framework
Certify → Measure → Optimize → Decarbonize

Applied to a single building or an entire organization, the sequence is the same.

Certify

Establish the standard the asset will be held to.

Measure

Quantify the current and predicted performance.

Optimize

Test options and select on evidence.

Decarbonize

Deliver, verify and report the reduction.

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