Visionary placemaking

End-to-end sustainability support for newbuild developers

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Hi – we're Bioregional.

We've spent three decades at the forefront of sustainable placemaking and developed countless strategies for projects just as complex as yours.

We know exactly how to turn outrageously ambitious sustainability goals into financial savings, smoother planning approvals, and happier places for people to live and work.

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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 championcollaborating 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 across BREEAM, Passivhaus, and NABERS.
  • RIBA-aligned throughout: from concept to post-occupancy
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Portfolio and organisational level

We'll help you embed sustainability at scale and achieve measurable impact.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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30 years. 30+ awards.

Our data geeks have checked, and that's a pretty good ratio.

And as a social enterprise, we’re committed to maximising our own impact, devoting time and resources to influencing policy and industry practices.

In other words: we really mean it.

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Get in touch with Lewis Knight, our Director of Sustainable Places, to learn how we can help you.

  • Beyond compliance

  • Never cookie-cutter

  • Enablers, not theorists

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