What are the benefits of creating environmentally friendly spaces and places?
Engaging a construction contractor who is knowledgeable and thoughtful about a project’s environmental impact and understands how to collaborate with designers, engineers and stakeholders ensures that intended benefits are realised – and not lost between design and construction.
Providing environmentally focused built solutions throughout our towns, cities and countryside provides the following benefits:
- Improving climate resilience.
- Improve air quality and water quality – green and blue infrastructure helps to contribute towards reducing air pollution and harmful emissions.
- Reduce water usage – water efficient systems such as rainwater harvesting reduce water consumption, helping to conserve resources.
- Reduce energy consumption and costs – projects designed with nature in mind can reduce greenhouse emissions and reduce energy usage in the long term due to not as much maintenance required.
- Community well-being – sustainable construction focuses on integrating the environment whilst improving the quality of life for residents, pupils and the public.
- Resilience to climate change – extreme weather events such as flooding, temperature fluctuations and storms are becoming increasingly more regular. By understanding the impact sustainable water and flood management projects have on our climate, we can reduce our footprint dramatically.
Environmental interventions such as raingardens, blue roofs and swales are an essential tool in addressing the challenges of climate change and creating a more sustainable built environment. Please contact us to find out how we can help with your project.