Decarbonisation

A joined-up approach to estate investment

Your existing buildings hold significant untapped value. Rather than treating decarbonisation in isolation, we build a complete, data-led picture of your estate so that every pound is invested where it delivers the greatest carbon, cost and operational benefit.

A joined-up investment plan brings together:

• Backlog maintenance tackled alongside improvement works to extend asset life and avoid abortive spend
• Energy efficiency measures that cut consumption, running costs and exposure to price volatility
• Energy resilience through on-site renewable generation and storage
• Heating decarbonisation, moving from fossil fuels to low-carbon technologies such as heat pumps
• Building fabric and climate adaptation improvements that raise comfort and stand up to future climate risks
• Healthier, higher-performing spaces for the people who use them

For new build and major refurbishment, we also bring proven low-carbon expertise, informed by our role supporting the UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings (NZCB) Standard, our in-house EMBØDI embodied-carbon tool and a dedicated Passivhaus service.

Maximising funding and investment

Rising costs and tighter budgets demand smarter funding. Our team helps you identify and unlock the routes that make investment viable — from external grants to alternative finance — so a lack of upfront capital never has to stall progress.

We help you secure and structure investment through:

• Grant funding: identifying applicable schemes and supporting your applications
• Alternative finance and PPPs: shaping public/private partnership and new investment models
• Robust business cases: aligned to your governance, investment criteria and approval requirements
• Financial modelling: demonstrating return, payback and whole-life value
• Early Contractor Engagement: setting realistic budgets and programmes and reducing risk from the outset

Your complete decarbonisation partner

From first assessment to long-term performance, we act as an extension of your team at every stage of the journey.

• Understand: we undertake site surveys, energy modelling and data analysis to give you full visibility of current performance and emissions (Scope 1, 2 and, where requested, 3), establishing a credible, data-led baseline.
• Plan: we translate that insight into a practical, fully costed decarbonisation roadmap, prioritising the interventions that deliver the greatest carbon, cost and operational benefit while balancing affordability and service continuity.
• Deliver: we take designs into on-site delivery across live estates, integrating retrofit and low-carbon solutions through programmes that minimise disruption, decanting and closures.
• Monitor and optimise: post-completion, our in-house Energy Synergy™ system verifies savings against target, optimises building performance and provides the evidence to support further funding rounds and net zero reporting.

Real results for real budgets

Organisations across the UK are already seeing the benefits of our approach:

• North Herts Council: a £15.9m programme across three leisure centres, supported by £7m+ of funding, targeting a CO₂ reduction of more than 60%
• Oxford City Council: four leisure centres retrofitted for a 56% CO₂ reduction, saving around 963 tonnes a year
• Somerset County Hall & Library: around 105,000 kWh of annual energy savings, with the buildings kept fully operational throughout
• Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham: a £28.8m programme replacing 18,000m² of failing single glazing, staged to keep the hospital running

Our three-pillar approach

We keep delivery simple and accountable through three clear stages:

Understand: data-led insight that creates clarity on estate-wide and individual building performance and cost.

Plan: clear, costed and phased pathways from ambition to action, prioritised to maximise outcomes.

Deliver: confident delivery with recognisable impact, unlocking value and minimising disruption across live sites.

A planned, sustainable estate delivers measurable benefits — including:

• Improved energy efficiency and greater resilience to energy prices
• Increased on-site renewable generation and storage
• Reduced backlog maintenance and longer-life assets
• Real, evidenced progress against net zero commitments
• Resilient, compliant buildings fit for future climate risks
• Healthier, higher-performing spaces
• Stronger ESG performance that helps attract investment

Ready to transform your estate?

Whether you are at the start of your journey or accelerating existing plans, we have the technical, funding and delivery expertise to help you protect essential services, cut cost and carbon, and create resilient, efficient and adaptable spaces, all within your budget.

Turn your estate into decarbonised, energy-efficient, future-ready assets that work harder for your budget and your community.

Transform your buildings into net zero assets that work harder for your budget and your community.

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Fast contracting mechanisms

Through our positions on the Scape National Major Works, Scape Venture, Pagabo Developer Led Framework, Procurement Hub and SCF frameworks, we are able to accelerate your decarbonisation requirements through a fast, prequalified and socially responsible contracting mechanism.