Brindleyplace steps up quest towards ‘net zero’
ASPECIALIST sustainability and engineering consultancy has been appointed to oversee a business estate in Birmingham city centre as it strives to become net zero.
Hoare Lea will work with the owners of the Brindleyplace estate to help it reach new standards of sustainability for the future.
The partnership will integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) approaches across the estate and look for new ways to reduce the environmental impact of operating the estate.
It will also advise Brindleyplace on how to involve more people, including occupiers, visitors, and the local community, and explore ways of making sustainability more inclusive and decision making and policy initiatives more transparent and effective.
Diana Sanchez Barajas, associate director with Hoare Lea, said: “Brindleyplace is one of the most exciting estates we’ve ever examined in terms of the quality of the work it has already done and its on-going potential as a highly sustainable and inclusive destination for both now and the future.
“By helping places and people on their journey to greater sustainability, we are promoting a holistic, longterm programme of solutions for the challenges we all face.”
Hoare Lea is a specialist in assisting companies, organisations and destinations reach their sustainability potential by helping them identify, record, assess and articulate their ESG aims.
These might include efforts to reduce carbon footprint, expand initiatives and promote community involvement while also supporting inclusivity.
Matt Long, head of customer engagement and placemaking at Brindleyplace, added: “Brindleyplace is a special part of Birmingham’s landscape precisely because of its pro-active focus on wellbeing, its location in the centre of the city’s green and blue infrastructure and its outstanding public realm.
“Our refurbishment programme across the estate is helping us and our occupiers work smarter and more imaginatively to reduce our carbon footprint.
“By bringing Hoare Lea on board, we’re developing that proposition further and elevating it by looking at where we can improve and deliver even more for our visitors, occupiers and the wider community.”