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Net Zero Carbon Consultants

Companies across the globe are being called upon to tackle their emissions and commit to net zero carbon. With the pressure on to step up, how a business responds, the project they deliver, the promises they make, and their actions sit firmly under the spotlight.

Helping you achieve net zero carbon

Your sustainability strategy impacts your bottom line and your future prospects so it’s important to get it right from the get-go. Whether you’re at the start of your net zero journey, you’ve already committed but need help to reach your targets, or you need solutions to deliver a net zero project. We’re here to help you reduce your emissions and reach carbon neutral.

Net Zero Carbon Services

Corporate Services

With multi-disciplinary expertise and a holistic approach, we inform, advise and support clients to formulate a strategy that aligns with key UN Sustainable Development Goals, global indices and reporting initiatives.

We work with you to determine your current emissions, set clear reduction targets and outline a net zero roadmap to help you achieve your goals.

Our services

Net Zero Carbon strategy
Corporate, social reporting and management
Science Based Target Development
Carbon Footprinting
Scope three emissions
Lifecycle Assessment
ESG Due Diligence

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Project Services

The transformation to a net zero carbon society requires a shift in the way we plan, design and build the supporting infrastructure. Our consultants have extensive experience in sourcing and designing sustainable solutions and assessing energy usage for both new and existing buildings to help our clients achieve their carbon reduction targets.

Our services

Strategic advice
Site selection and energy strategy
Energy efficiency and building performance
Low carbon design and engineering
Passive Haus
Managing carbon in construction
NZC in operation solutions

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Retrofitting our building stock

Improving the energy efficiency of our existing building stock is a vital step on our journey to net zero. If we are to meet our agreed targets and reduce emissions to pre 1990 levels, the wholesale repurposing and retrofitting of our built assets is essential.

Costs, policy uncertainty and the challenge of delivering at scale and pace are just some of the barriers to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. The volume, type, age and current efficiency of buildings demands a huge retrofit operation to meet net zero carbon targets.

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We're here to help you tackle your emissions

Your carbon footprint might be complex, but your journey to carbon neutral doesn’t have to be. Our sustainability experts can help you formulate a corporate strategy that embeds net zero across your organisation and into your everyday thinking. We can work with your project team to help you deliver a sustainable project with our carbon reduction solutions to tackle your emissions.

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We know the road to net zero feels challenging but we're here to help you reach your goals

Are you on the path to Net Zero Carbon?

Review your current position with our free, quick and easy progress check.

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Podcast: Building Sustainability - The road to Net Zero

The 2050 target is getting closer, but clarity over exactly what organisations need to do to achieve net zero carbon remains hard to come by.

Designed to help clients navigate complexity, Building Sustainably: The Road to Net Zero explores real-life case studies to provide pragmatic advice and actionable takeaways. Covering a wide range of topics including how to fund, plan, design, and manage net zero programmes in the built environment, RPS is pleased to bring together public and private sector organisations to share knowledge, insight, and lessons learned.

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Reducing Embodied Carbon

For years, developers and contractors have been aware of a building's operational carbon emissions when developing new sites. Responsible for most of the total emissions over an asset’s lifetime, they have been a priority for carbon reduction targets to date. But to become carbon neutral and deliver net zero buildings, the same level of focus and investment is needed to tackle embodied carbon emissions.

How to tackle your embodied carbon

Driving the transition to a net zero future

We're proud members of the UK Green Building Council (UKGBC), an industry-led organisation on a mission to radically improve the sustainability of the built environment, transforming the way it’s planned, designed, constructed, maintained and operated.

RPS Consulting UK & Ireland have also pledged to Pledge to Net Zero, joining organisations from across the environmental services industry to take a leadership role in the transition to a Net Zero carbon future. We have pledged to set and deliver a greenhouse gas target and publicly report our emissions and progress each year.

RPS Group – a bold path to net zero by 2030

RPS has set an ambitious, science-based, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction target across our value chain by 2030. For the same period, we are also setting a bold aim to have transitioned strongly towards Net Zero.

Managing Emissions - Science based and aligned to a 1.5ºC pathway
Target: c46% reduction in GHG emissions (Scopes 1-3) by 2030
Path to Net Zero: Aim to have strongly transitioned to Net Zero by 2030

Webinar: Reducing carbon emissions on development sites

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Watch our Leading Minds Webinar to explore individual building measures and site wide energy strategies that a development can use to meet all the social, economic and environmental tenets of a sustainable design.

Presented by Simon Bourke, Head of Building Services UK

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More about Net Zero Carbon consultant services

Complying with Approved Document O - Taking the heat out of building regs compliance
- Phil O'Loughlin
New Building Regulations and uplifts to Part L and F have come into force in England impacting the design and delivery of new non-domestic buildings as well as homes and existing homes.

Announced in 2021 as an interim step toward the government's Future Buildings Standard, due in 2025, these new regulations change how the design of both domestic and non-domestic buildings will be shaped in the future. The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DHLUC) believes the new regulations will help the UK to meet its net zero target by 2050.

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Stick or twist: to retrofit or build new?
- Andrew Tasker
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- UK
- Ireland
As awareness of the climate crisis heightens and the call for action intensifies, one of the questions at the top of the agenda for property owners looking to reduce their carbon footprint is should we retrofit, or should we build new? Principal Consultant, Andrew Tasker discusses how to weigh up your options and choose the right route for your project.

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Net Zero Carbon - From gas to electricity, the challenges of retrofitting
- Simon Bourke - Net Zero Carbon
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- UK
- Ireland
As companies set out to achieve net zero carbon, many will be looking at switching from gas to electricity for their energy supply. Simon Bourke, Operational Director at RPS looks at the challenges that lie ahead as businesses look to retrofit their existing building stocks.

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