St. Joseph’s Hospital, Dungarvan

Environmental capabilities: Circular Economy

Rapidly diminishing natural resources and increasing global consumption means an renewed approach is required to resource management in the built environment with the aim of optimising resource flows in design, construction and operation.

Environmental capabilities: Embodied Carbon

The construction, maintenance and use of buildings generate around a third of carbon emissions globally. Furthermore, the industry is responsible for one half of raw material extraction and a significant amount of replacements and transfers of mass during a product’s life.

Environmental capabilities: Biodiversity Net Gain

Our ecologists sit within our specialist sustainability team. They have been supporting landscape design on projects for over ten years, developing considerable knowledge and expertise across evaluation and valuing tools, including the BREEAM Land Use and Ecology calculators, the Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull Biodiversity Impact Assessment and more recently the Biodiversity Metric 2.0 calculator.

Environmental capabilities: Net Zero Carbon

Our sustainability specialists have extensive experience in working collaboratively with architects, building services, structural and civil engineers, and cost consultants to lead on strategic approaches to designing net zero carbon buildings.

BDP’s Collaborative Sustainability Efforts

At BDP, our commitment to sustainability goes beyond designing sustainable buildings. We believe in working together with fellow industry experts, task forces and partnerships to help mitigate the built environment’s impact towards the climate crisis.

Environmental Management Report 2022-2023

Mass Timber Midrise: Residential Construction for a Low Carbon Future

As part of the ongoing efforts to combat the effects of climate change, the building and construction industry has emerged as a hub of innovation. At a local level, the Toronto Green Standards now impose stricter performance criteria, urging the development community to re-evaluate conventional methods and materials, examine their environmental impacts, and explore alternatives.

Reimagining a sustainable future: adaptive reuse in the UAE

As we look to COP28 for a commitment to sustainable practices from the world’s leaders, we showcase how we have repurposed buildings to deliver sustainable spaces that celebrate the UAE's past and drive its future.

Sustainable Weather and Climate Science Building set to be built in Reading

The University of Reading campus is set to become home to the largest cluster of weather and climate scientists in the world, following agreement to build a new, sustainable, state-of-the-art headquarters for the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) on the University’s Whiteknights campus.