Sustainability

Undertaking development in the most sustainable way is a key component of all new schemes from the concept design stage, through planning and detailed design, into the construction stage and ultimately how buildings are occupied and operated.

While there are an increasing number of regulatory requirements in respect of sustainability through the town planning and building regulations processes, it is clear that investors in and occupiers of new industrial, warehousing and logistics buildings also have ever-changing aspirations often captured through their ESG strategies.

Each development undertaken by Taurus has these sustainability requirements and aspirations very much at its heart at each stage of the development process and with continuous review and re-evaluation. The team of design consultants that Taurus employs are well versed and experienced in what is required for each development and these requirements are then passed on to appropriate main-build contractors via a Design & Build procurement route. Contractors have to demonstrate at an early stage of the procurement process that they have the necessary skills, experience and commitment to achieve sustainable, ethical, low carbon buildings.

Targets are established at an early stage, but with an aspiration that these targets are stretched rather than soft – the bar is set high at the outset with the headline aspirations of targeting BREEAM “Excellent” and EPC Rating A+. What is key here is the detailed analysis and in-depth assessments of a wide variety of aspects of the design and procurement processes that sit behind those headlines.

Typically such analysis would include: