Our sustainability consultancy using the One Planet Living framework, developed from our experiences with BedZED, ensures complete, triple-tier sustainability.
We embed One Planet Living into your vision, strategy, master plan and design, ensuring your development supports people to live sustainable, healthy and happy lives. We help you focus on people and outcomes rather than looking at how many credits you can score.
It has been fantastic working with the team at Bioregional on some of our most recent projects. They dive in to provide holistic support on all sustainability aspects of a project from energy strategy to food growing, bringing with them the One Planet Living framework, which provides a uniquely simple and tangible way to embed and communicate with local residents and stakeholders.
Doug Higgins, Project Director of First Base
We investigate and understand the local, regional and global context of each project, and use this as the basis for establishing key sustainability considerations. We then set high-level goals for the scheme. Using the One Planet Living framework, we cover issues like wellbeing, community and economic impact as well as environmental objectives for cutting carbon, waste and so on.
We create a set of ‘user personas’ – examples of people who will be living in, shopping at or visiting a development. We understand what their needs and aspirations are and model a series of user-experience scenarios based on these needs.
Equipped with our user-experience scenarios we set stretching but achievable outcomes and targets that are bespoke to each scheme. They stand up to scrutiny because:
Photo credit: Zibi in Ottawa has used One Planet Living to shape its plans for a mixed-use, vibrant sustainable community.
This week, Sue Riddlestone appeared on the BBC’s Costing the Earth to discuss housebuilding in the UK. Here, she shares more about how we can create zero-carbon homes that are great places to live – as well as her call for action to the UK government
