Developers, owners and operators face evolving user needs and expectations, environmental and climate pressures, and regulatory requirements.
These challenges must be tackled while demonstrating value to taxpayers, customers and investors, controlling operational costs, and addressing statutory requirements for environmental protection, climate sensitivity and social benefits.
Successfully navigating competing pressures is key to securing an essential social and environmental licence to operate, while unlocking shared opportunity.
Our global network of climate, environment and social experts will support you and your project teams to achieve:
Sustainability throughout the project lifecycle
Our specialists understand complex sustainability challenges and provide informed expertise to improve the performance of projects. Climate, environmental and social inputs are as important as technical engineering inputs for delivering sustainable projects and achieving lasting value for clients, society and our environment. We work with you to improve outcomes at every stage of the project lifecycle - and the earlier we act the greater the benefits that can be achieved.
Shaping the best possible legacy
Our climate, environment and social experts help clients to identify and deliver the best project outcomes for the long term. With the technical excellence and experience to achieve results that aren't confined to a single silo, we find opportunities for shared benefit - like understanding and mitigating environmental impact, enabling nature recovery, delivering meaningful social outcomes, all while shaping climate resilient infrastructure assets.
Innovative and cost-effective solutions
We have tools and solutions that improve climate risk management, embed nature-based solutions, enrich biodiversity, manage stakeholder relations, drive social transformation and provide quantitative insights on community and environmental impacts.
Sydney Metro, Australia. For Australia’s biggest public transport project, we’ve maintained our focus on considering social outcomes in all that we do.
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Setting projects up for success and strengthening ongoing operations requires multidisciplinary approaches and specialisms. We can help you with:
People and Planet demonstrates and quantifies social and environmental outcomes. It combines publicly available data with project data to assess social and environmental factors alongside project priorities. Risks and opportunities are displayed on maps and dashboards, empowering decisions that create long-term benefits for people and the planet.