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Sustainability is today one of the dominant issues affecting decision making at the highest levels throughout the private sector and public sector organisations.
This issue crystallises in a growing recognition that the decisions we make today must take into account every aspect of the legacy they will leave for future generations, and this calls for a radical new approach to the balance we strike between our economic, social and environmental priorities.
Turner & Townsend offers an integrated portfolio of consultancy services developed to help our clients strike this balance – to find the best way to respond to the concept of sustainability not as an imposition or a burden, but as a major opportunity to achieve new objectives that can be measured at the triple bottom line.
We know that this can be achieved, because we’re already helping many of our clients to lead the way in new thinking in key areas of sustainability:
in the development of successful new communities; in whole life appraisal, responsible procurement, construction and carbon management; in environmental and social responsibility, and in sustainable, forward-thinking business change and organisational development. 
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Drivers for Change
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The world is changing.
Our society is now becoming increasingly challenged to tackle and take responsibility for the so called triple bottom line:- social, economic and environmental matters when considering any development which creates an additional impact upon our environment.
There are a whole range of issues forcing society to recognise and mitigate the impact of new infrastructure and business decisions upon our built environment. Legislation is being created; revised and tightened to reinforce the message of our collective environmental responsibility throughout communities and the built environment, related matters and key drivers as follows:
Energy and Energy Consumption
- Oil topping 100 dollars a barrel, and headed one way
- “Green” taxes increasing year on year enforced Globally
- C02 “shadow charge” of £26 per tonne will be required in all option appraisals for Government funded projects, and likely to increase.
- Responsible energy usage in buildings from houses to corporate offices increasingly visible and enforceable
Water Conservation and Management
- The cost to consumers of fresh water is increasing
- Many Global regions do not have enough drinking water supply, including UK regions
- Climate change is having an increasing impact upon water management and recycling demands
Materials and Waste
- The Huge impact of EU legislation is driving improved waste management at all levels in our communities
- Significant cash penalties will become enforceable if these targets are not complied with
- Clever construction requires sustainable design and responsible materials usage during construction of a project
- Sustainable Facilities Management and Operation of buildings requires a rethink of materials, components and resource utilisation
Land, Ecology and Biodiversity
- Environmental impact of new development must be mitigated over a whole life time basis
- Ecology and Biodiversity respected in everything we do
- Alternative fuels: Are biofuel’s an answer when to fill a standard SUV takes equivalent corn to feed a person for a year
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Connected Consultancy
We offer a holistic, comprehensive approach to sustainability because in the widest sense sustainability is a global issue.
The social, economic and environmental implications of sustainability are fundamentally inter-related. Every aspect of sustainability is connected, and so is our consultancy.
With our ‘global’ perspective we can help our clients gain the maximum advantage by addressing sustainability with an all-round vision that aligns strategic development with social and environmental responsibilities; capital investment with carbon management objectives; asset and human resource management with service delivery and financial models
Turner & Townsend has been developing the wide spectrum of expertise and experience required to deliver this comprehensive breadth of support for many years, working with private and public sector clients all over the world, drawing on all our skills in core areas of cost management, project management and management consultancy, and where necessary, creating tools to deliver the most effective results in sustainable performance improvement.
Regions and Communities
Our Regions and Communities drive lifestyles and business needs, which shape and impact the “Organisations and Assets” that we create, and over life every aspect of the “Web of Sustainability” will impact at some point during this lifetime.
Organisation and Assets
In response to the business and corporate obligations of our clients, we create “Buildings and Services” to reflect the requirements of the “Organisations and Assets” that translate the operational and management over lifetime, from business planning, through procurement and ultimately into responsible management of organisations and assets.
Buildings and Services
The “Web of Sustainability” is centered on the facilities, buildings and operational services that we create and set to use over lifetime. As Construction and Management Consultants we can deliver all of the connected consultancy services required by our clients, but we also have a lead responsibility to continuously improve our services and refine the buildings and services our clients require. 
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Our Products and Services - How we can help you
Our Products and Services throughout Sustainability can be clustered in three main work streams, namely Strategy and Policy, Economics and Delivery
Strategy and Policy
- Governance and CSR, compliance with current and emerging legislation
- Consultancy support to provide you with Development, Sustainability and Carbon Management Strategies
Economics
- Financial Viability, technical advice focused upon whole life performance, operating cost analysis, component and life cycle planning
- Consultancy support to provide you with Low impact and zero carbon systems, financial assessments, carbon trading and commercial considerations in connection
Delivery
- Supporting your organisation or project with change and transformation management, management of your stakeholders
- Sustainable procurement, use of materials, creating responsible specifications, incorporating issues around waste and renewables
- BREEAM, LEED assessments and Code for Sustainable homes
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Delivering Value
As a leading global consultancy in project delivery and business improvement, Turner & Townsend has been helping to lead the way in integrating sustainability into business improvement and project delivery for many years, and we have been closely involved in many key projects that have set the benchmarks in sustainable construction, sustainable business development and sustainable communities.
We have helped deliver many of the highest BREEAM rated projects ever undertaken in the UK, including the new headquarters for BRE itself, City Hall, home of the London Mayor, the multi-award-winning Scottish Natural Heritage headquarters, and the Dalby Forest Visitors Centre – The Prime Minister’s Building of the Year 2007.
Turner & Townsend was a lead consultant for the delivery of the pioneering and hugely successful Crown Street Regeneration Project in Glasgow; we are supporting the planning and delivery of dozens of major regeneration schemes in cities throughout the UK and Ireland, and we have helped deliver the Zero Carbon Feasibility study for Thames Gateway.
In the drive to enable clients to clearly evaluate the costs and benefits of sustainability in a world of uncertainty and rapid change, we have developed a series of uniquely sophisticated databases and models that offer clear and definite information on which our clients can base the crucial strategic decisions that sustainability demands.
We have developed processes to capture the knowledge and experience we have gained in every facet of sustainability and apply it to projects as diverse as Sunderland Arc and the development of sustainable communities in South Africa.
And we have always recognised our own responsibility to apply the best practice we offer our clients to our own business – taking every step we can to reduce our environmental impact; encouraging the best principles of Corporate Social Responsibility at every level in the company; and making sustainability an integral part of every aspect of our planning for the future.
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CASE STUDIES
| KPMG - Project Gold |
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The client, a multi-national professional services consultancy, required sustainability advice to be integrated into T&T’s project management support during the procurement of a new international London-based head office to accommodate 3,000 employees… more |
| Low Carbon Building Accelerator (LCBA) Initiative |
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To accelerate the take-up of cost-effective, low-carbon initiatives during a building refurbishment and to capture the information and produce a case study to be used to assist similar developments… more |
| Sustainable Procurement Workshop |
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The client commissioned Turner & Townsend to deliver training and develop tools on sustainable procurement with the aim of providing DCA personnel with guidance to meet the UK Government’s sustainable procurement targets… more |
| Stansted Generation 2 |
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Expansion of existing airport facility… more |
| Stevenage Town Centre Regeneration Scheme |
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The partners involved at Stevenage identified the following criteria as their shared ambitions for the comprehensive regeneration of Britain’s first New Town. This was to be achieved through the delivery of a mixed-use retail and residential scheme led by a private-sector development partner… more |
| Low and Zero Feasibility Study of the Thames Gateway |
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Undertake a feasibility study on the potential of a low carbon/ zero carbon development area across the entire Thames Gateway to inform policy and strategy. The appointment was via the OGC Environmental Advise, Support & Design Framework… more |
| Grampian Housing Carbon and Energy evaluation |
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Main objectives for Grampian Housing Association in the short-term are to eliminate as far as practical the technical causes of fuel poverty within GHA stock by 2016 and to ensure that their existing housing stock is sustainable in wider terms, as defined by a “very good” Ecohomes XB standard… more |
| Relocation of Headquarters |
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As project manager, cost and sustainability consultant, it was Turner & Townsend’s responsibility to relocate 303 staff to new premises and to manage a fit out programme using a public procurement route with the objective of SNH leasing their headquarters from the successful developer. Turner & Townsend assisted Scottish Natural Heritage in developing the business case and procurement strategy and in writing a sustainable brief for the building… more |
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Recent Clients
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Department Communities and Local Government |
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Grampian Housing Association |
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KPMG |
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Carbon Trust |
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BAA |
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Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA) |
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Stevenage Borough Council |
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English Partnerships |
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Scottish Natural Heritage |
Energy Performance Certificates
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