Services
Our Services
Business Impact Analysis and Sustainability Strategies
Support board/director level management to understand the business impacts of progressive sustainability policy and legislation covering a range of key issues that affect the bottom line:
- Climate change policies and regulation affecting development
- Energy mitigation and carbon abatement
- Water efficiency and conservation
- Materials selection and waste optimisation
- Ecological enhancements and bio-diversity offsetting
- Adding value through sales & marketing
Corporate Social Responsibility Benchmarking
The team at Think Three can help your organisation set strategic sustainability objectives and benchmark your performance against your competitors and other relevant sectors.
- Agreeing strategic direction and setting CSR objectives
- Benchmarking objectives against industry standards (NextGeneration; GRI; BiTC; IWBI etc.)
- Report writing and monitoring of results
- Adopting processes of continuous improvement
Regulatory Advice and Planning Submissions
Kirk Archibald is well connected to senior officials in central government, having worked on various environmental and legislative forums, and can advise you on current and forthcoming legislation changes that affect your business. In this way, Think Three can support the planning application process to ensure preferred outcomes for all stakeholders are delivered expediently:
- Mapping the policy and regulatory impacts against your business
- Preparing and presenting impact assessment guides for planners and design architects
- Evaluating the most cost-effective energy/carbon strategy for a given site
- Preparing energy/carbon abatement statements in support of planning applications
- Preparing sustainability statements in support of design & access statements
- Evaluating the impact on quality of life from new development
Appraising Energy Efficiency, Renewables and Low/ Zero Carbon Solutions
Think Three are well versed in solutions to mitigate both embodied as well as operational energy/carbon to support sustainable development:
- Assess options for new development to mitigate operational and embodied carbon emissions
- Provide detailed appraisals to offer value engineered solutions with lowest capex and opex as desired
- Familiar with procuring and setting up energy services companies to design, install, operate, manage and bill users for energy used
- Experience of installing and using a range of low/zero carbon technologies across small and large scales
- Supporting the creation of CO2 accounting procedures in anticipation of trading CO2 emissions in the built environment
Sustainability Assessments and Performance Monitoring
Support planning, technical and construction departments to assess compliance with sustainability requirements by providing assessment of options and measuring compliance throughout the planning, design, build and sales process:
Sustainability Assessments:
- Early pre-assessment of options and requirements to satisfy various environmental assessment methodologies (BREEAM; Home Quality Mark; Overheating using dynamic modelling; Quality of Life assessments; bespoke LPA requirements as necessary)
- Detailed analysis of cost-effective solutions and production of sustainability briefs/specifications to suit
- Submission of assessment reports to the Regional and Local planning authorities to support clearance of planning conditions
- Production of marketing information for customers on features and benefits of sustainability specifications
Technical Implementation & Delivery
Think Three can support technical teams to determine cost-effective solutions for meeting a range of conflicting sustainability requirements:
- Detailed presentations on impacts and options to technical staff
- Detailed cost modelling to support estimating departments
- Appraisal of solutions selected and liaison with credible supply chain partners to test the market
- Specifying appropriate monitoring and feedback mechanisms to inform business successes and future responses
Supply Chain Integration:
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- Risk analysis, market research and testing of performance characteristics
- Supply-chain liaison and negotiation
- Facilitation of open source information sharing (e.g. supplier 'sandpits')
- Appraising alternative procurement options (DB&O, ESCO services, energy contracting etc.)
Sales & Marketing Training
Think Three Ltd can offer training to housebuilders and repair maintenance and improvement (RM&I) sectors. This includes the design and delivery of training courses/CPD type seminars relating to:
- Parts of the building regulations.
- Sustainability assessments (e.g. Code for Sustainable Homes, BREEAM etc.)
- Energy mitigation & CO2 abatement strategies to support planning officers, architects and developers
- Training for communities on the opportunities to improve the sustainability credentials of their locality
- Provision of a ‘help line’ or online forum for builders for policy, planning and technical support on sustainability
- Public relations
- Production of publications, responses to consultations, liaison with external stakeholders
- Production of sales and marketing materials covering sustainability issues
- Research & report writing to support associations, research and development activities and branded publications
Bespoke Environmental Services
Environmental legislation is likely to increase and further impact on development as solutions to meet current requirements are adopted in regulation. We have identified the following key areas which are likely to impact development in the medium (3-5yrs) and long-term (>10yrs) where additional service offerings can support research and development activities of client companies: