Sustainable.Design is not an afterthought or tick box exercise, it’s embedded in everything we do. Our research and learning informs our design work to achieve built environment climate goals. As leaders in our industry, we regularly collaborate with others and are committed to using our expertise to address the multiple challenges we face, whether it be the climate emergency or the housing crisis.

Levitt Bernstein, Etude, Hawkins\Brown, Introba, and Currie & Brown were commissioned as a collaborative team to carry out an Embodied Carbon Policy Study for Essex.

The Delivering Net Zero study provides an evidence base to support emerging planning policies for 18 London boroughs seeking to deliver net zero carbon development.

We are very excited to be on site at Plashet Road - our first Passivhaus Certified and 100% affordable housing scheme!

We have secured planning permission for a pilot net zero carbon housing scheme for the London Borough of Islington, designed to deliver exemplar homes and help address the climate emergency.

We are striving to be a zero carbon practice well before 2050, but in the meantime, we are working hard to make the places and spaces we create as sustainable as possible.

The Architects Declare 'Building Justice' event was a great success, with over 70 people attending in-person at our London studio and a good online attendance for the livestream. Everyone came together to discuss how to tackle AD's most recent and arguably most challenging declaration point: Climate Justice.

Alongside Haringey Council, we developed the environmental aspirations for Ashley Road Depot to deliver a low carbon neighbourhood. The scheme is aiming to deliver the LETI targets for net zero operational carbon and embodied carbon. We have produced this one-pager with Etude to be transparent about the targets we are aiming to achieve on this project at planning stage.

Clare Murray, Gillian Harrison and Irene Craik discussed two projects and the foundations of ultra-low energy design and social sustainability, reflecting on the unique considerations when designing for older residents.

We have more than ten schemes seeking to achieve Passivhaus standards and/or certification. These range in scale from 32-272 homes and are up to 100% affordable.

Phoenix Community Housing, the client for Melfield Gardens in Lewisham, shared our ambition to put the project on a path to zero carbon. We have produced this one-pager with Etude to be transparent and celebrate targets we are aiming to achieve on this project at planning stage.

We hope this series will continue to inspire us and make us want to push beyond the limits of local, regional and national policies – aspiring to make places that are truly liveable and which will help us and our clients to leave a lasting legacy for resilient communities.

We attended the Climate Strike march. Architects gathered alongside Architects Declare and Architects Climate Action Network (ACAN) at the Building Centre to march for the climate crisis.

We are pleased to share that our Easi Guide to Passivhaus Design, which we created alongside Etude, has been translated into Spanish. This was led by Plataforma de Edificación Passivhaus (PEP).

In terms of the construction industry, we hope that the conference achieves climate action that sees the banning of fossil fuels as an energy source for all new developments and other existing buildings where possible. We hope to see new incentives, targets and financial investment in retrofit.

Confronted by the hard truth that 38% of all global greenhouse gases is currently attributed to the built environment, the speakers called upon professionals to take the time to educate themselves and be part of the solution, rather than passive bystanders contributing to the problem.

Architects Declare, a network of architectural practices committed to addressing the climate and biodiversity emergency, has developed a Practice Guide to help signatories convert their declaration into meaningful action and build momentum within their practice.

Victoria Turner spoke about retrofit and its role in creating facility transformation and resilience for school estates, as well as it playing a vital part of the jigsaw for reducing carbon emissions during a climate crisis.

We support the Fridays for Future movement and the global climate strike which is raising awareness of climate justice and the Most Affected Peoples and Areas (MAPA) who are experiencing the worst impacts of the climate crisis.

This document, created by the Low Energy Transformation Initiative, brings together resources in a useful guide and will help enable our clients, including developers, operators, contractors, owner occupiers and investors, to construct buildings that meet LETI performance objectives.

Building regulations could drive embodied carbon to the forefront of the design, specification and construction process. We welcome the proposed amendment to the Building Regulations under the name of 'Part Z', which demonstrates a mechanism for introducing embodied carbon into law.