Waste Management and Recycling

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Working closely alongside waste and environmental consultants, we work with our clients to develop solutions for waste management and goods flows. We strive to realise the value and opportunities to prevent, reuse, recycle materials and reduce waste. This allows us to minimise the amount of embodied carbon within the project and develop a circular economy approach to design, demolition and disassembly.

We help develop bespoke solutions considering the latest innovations, technologies whilst adhering to the latest international best practice and waste regulations.

Our waste management consultant partners remain informed on the latest waste and logistics infrastructure requirements and materials flow. This ensures the delivery of sustainable solutions that balance the needs of the design against operational requirements and the utilisation of space within urban environments.

Our designs use real data to improve recycling rates, automated vehicles to maximise internal logistics efficiencies, and drive opportunities for onsite waste treatment to maximise diversion rates.

We work with planners and local authorities to organise planning approvals for waste and materials environmental impact assessments, site waste management plans, and circular economy statements, delivery and servicing plans and waste capacity reprovision analysis.

Delivering a circular economy is key to reducing our demand for new materials and minimising waste disposal whilst retaining the value in materials and moving towards a zero-waste society.  

As a multi-disciplinary consultancy we work with  design teams and our engineers to integrate circular economy principles over all building layers, construction and operational phases. 

Working with developers, architects and engineers we identify solutions to reduce, reuse and recycle operational and construction waste. We ensure that there is sufficient space to manage and segregate waste, identify measures to reduce operational, construction and demolition waste and maximise the reuse or recyclability of these materials.

A circular economy, efficient space utilisation, reducing overall waste and environmental impacts are all key to developing a successful waste management strategy.

Working with our waste management and circular economy partners we provide feasibility studies and infrastructure assessments at the early stages of site procurement to determine the requirements for managing waste. We quantify and characterise the waste generation, review local waste policy and capacity of existing local waste infrastructure and the projects aspirations to develop of options for the storage collection and treatment of waste. 

We identify potential planning requirements, innovative solutions and ensure adaptability to reflect the growing global pressures of resource scarcity and support a circular economy. 

Servicing and logistics is a fundamental aspect to the operation of all buildings. It requires an understanding of the goods, products and vehicles that arrive onsite, traffic flows within the building and appropriate spatial planning.

We develop waste and goods logistics management strategies to create an efficient and frictionless service network, that can simultaneously receive and distribute goods and collect waste and recycling.