Bush House South West Wing
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Client
- Kings College London
- Expertise
- Advisory Services
- Sustainability Strategy
- Completion
- ongoing
Sustainability advisory enabling an ambitious low-carbon transformation of a major academic building at King’s College London.
King’s College London required additional student space through the acquisition and redevelopment of Bush House South West Wing, with the ambition of delivering its most sustainable building to date and strengthening sustainability integration across its capital programme.
Working in close collaboration with 3PM project managers, and building on our relationship developed through the CISL Entopia project, we were appointed to provide sustainability advisory services across briefing, strategy and delivery stages.
Our role included defining the sustainability brief and strategy, delivering environmental certification requirements, undertaking embodied carbon modelling and preparing the sustainable design statement for planning. From RIBA Stage 4 onwards, we also supported client-side monitoring of contractor delivery.
We developed the sustainability brief using industry standards, previous project experience and consultant expertise. Early-stage option development was supported through RAG-based assessment to enable rapid comparison and avoid unnecessary detailed analysis. Embodied carbon optioneering informed design development, with deeper analysis undertaken once key design decisions were established to identify hotspots and mitigate risk.
We also secured project board commitment to EnerPHit certification through written reporting, business case development and presentations.
The project targets EnerPHit, BREEAM Outstanding and WELL Performance Rating, positioning it as King’s College London’s most environmentally ambitious building to date and providing a blueprint for embedding sustainability into future capital projects.