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Voluntary Standards

Increasingly property developers are realising that it makes commercial sense to improve the environmental credentials of their buildings. This is especially true for commercial developments where the eventual tenant or buyer of the building is likely to factor in the building's sustainability to match their own corporate environmental aims. There is increasing demand for "green buildings" that provide a more comfortable working environment for the occupants and that have a reduced impact on ecosystem services. Hence developers are undertaking voluntary schemes that push the buildings environmental performance beyond the levels required in planning regulations.

As well as installing a range of innovative technologies such as fuel cells in new buildings developers are submitting voluntarily to environmental assessments such as LES-TER, LEED and BREEAM to demonstrate the strength of a building's sustainability.

At BeyondCarbon we help developers undertake LES-TER, LEED and BREEAM ratings for their projects.

Ecosystem Services Review

Business is facing a critical threat. It is one that will hold directors liable for the full range of environmental impacts and vulnerable through their dependence on factors outside their control. Alarmingly, most companies do not even know what this means or how it impacts their existence. Ecosystem Services Review provides corporate managers with a commercially focused approach to assessing risk and opporutunities of ecosystem impact and dependence. read more >>