Visionary placemaking
End-to-end sustainability support for new build developers
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Hi – we're Bioregional.
We help development managers turn big sustainability goals into smoother planning approvals and happier places for people to live – without all the headaches.
We've spent three decades at the forefront of sustainable placemaking and developed countless strategies for projects just as complex as yours.
How we'll support you ↓
Project level
We're hands-on throughout, bridging gaps between different consultancies to ensure your sustainability ambitions never get watered down.
- Your sustainability champion: collaborating with the design team and holding them to account
- Sustainability tracking tools for performance and accountability
- Visioning workshops, needs analysis and sustainability strategy
- Planning and certification deliverables: pre-planning and site promotion, sustainability statements, Whole Life Carbon Assessments, energy strategy and statements, social value and circular economy statements, and technical support for BREEAM and Passivhaus.
- RIBA-aligned throughout: from concept to post-occupancy
Portfolio and organisational level
We'll help you embed sustainability at scale and achieve measurable impact.
- Developing your sustainability portfolio tracker
- Co-creating your sustainability framework and supporting design guides
- Producing design and performance documents
- Sustainable fit-out specification
- Procurement strategy and standards development
- Corporate estate footprinting and portfolio decarbonisation strategy
Been there, done that (and set the standards)
After rewriting the rules with BedZED, we took sustainable homes mainstream with One Brighton, and kicked off the UK's first eco-town with Elmsbrook.
Recently, we've been creating the industry’s most ambitious social impact and sustainability framework with Muse, developing bold strategies with LandsecU+I, and helping Railpen and Socius create the most energy-efficient offices outside London.
Rest assured: we know what we're doing.
Big thinkers. Holistic doers.
As the people behind BedZED and the One Planet Living® framework, we know how to break the biggest sustainability challenges into achievable, collaborative steps.
(Download our free guide for UK developers to see exactly what we mean.)
Our world-renowned framework underpins our thinking and can be used across all areas of our support. And to be clear - it doesn’t have to feature in the work we do with you, but it’s always there in our process - giving us a holistic view that means nothing can slip through the cracks.
We're never cookie cutter
And nor are our fees.
Contact us so we can learn more about your exact needs and get to know you a little. From there, we’ll put together your proposal with full costings.
"What sets the Bioregional team apart is that they understand how to create ownership in others, driving sustainability into the vision of our developments, and weaving One Planet Living into the fabric of our project and design teams. This requires leadership and influencing skills, which everyone at Bioregional has in spades."
Edward Vaughan Dixon
Sustainability Insights Director, Landsec
"Bioregional's expertise and coordination ensured consistency and ambition across all themes, while their input on areas such as health and wellbeing brought real depth to our approach. With their support, we now have a powerful, practical tool to drive social impact and sustainability across all our future developments.”
Syreeta Bayne
Head of Social Value and Sustainability, Muse
Say hello
Get in touch with Lewis Knight, our Director of Sustainable Places, to learn how we can help you.
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Beyond compliance
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Never cookie-cutter
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Enablers, not theorists
Thank you
We'll be in touch within two working days
