Elementa Consulting, a member of Integral Group, proudly support the Carbon Leadership Forum as a signatory member of the MEP 2040 Challenge. To address the impact of the built environment on climate change, systems engineers have a critical role to play in both operational and embodied carbon and need to embrace a whole life carbon…
Beyond Buildings, a report issued by the World Green Building Council, with direction and authorship from Elementa Consulting’s Global Lead of Life Cycle Research Louise Hamot and Director, Global Sustainability Richard Palmer, identifies opportunities for how an integrated approach to the whole built environment is essential to deliver change commensurate with the commitments of the…
Elementa Consulting were commissioned by CIBSE in 2020 to develop a methodology for calculating the embodied carbon of MEP systems often left undiscussed in current embodied carbon discussions. This guidance, co-authored by Global Lead of Life Cycle Research Louise Hamot and Associate Clara Bagenal George will be published as CIBSE Technical Memorandum (TM) 65. …
Simon Ebbatson recently presented at the Education Construction Network Breakfast to discuss the topic “Do Austerity and Sustainability sit as happy bedfellows?”. The panel included Bob Hayes – Director – Architype, Andy Gillies – Education Advisor, Vanessa Naveed – Lead BREEAM assessor – AA Projects. The panel discussed whether the reduced funding in education and the…
January 2013 (Vancouver, BC): After a year of deep collaboration between Integral Group and Cobalt Engineering, it was clear that the core values and mission of both companies had coalesced into a unified objective – delivering deep green engineering. With management and staff supporting the shared vision, Cobalt Engineering was inspired to align itself fully…