WSP Built Ecology is a specialist environmental design consultancy, globally synonymous for prolific creativity and innovation that adds value.
WSP Built Ecology is a specialist environmental design consultancy, globally synonymous for prolific creativity and innovation that adds value. We have dedicated teams established in some of the world's most progressive marketplaces for sustainable buildings. These include London, San Francisco, Sydney, Melbourne and most recently Brisbane.
In each country we form an integral part of the local WSP Group building services engineering product. In Australia we are integrated with WSP Asia Pacific, WSP Flack and Kurtz in the USA and WSP Buildings in the UK. Each of these are recognised in their local markets and internationally as leaders in the delivery of green buildings.
We have been transforming sustainability within the built environment for over 14 years. Our approach is unique. Every project we work on has a WSP Built Ecology project leader charged with a dedicated focus on sustainability giving the client surety that they are receiving expert advice whilst also ensuring a fully integrated multidiscipline consultancy with the local WSP Group engineering team.
This model has delivered some of the world's leading Green Buildings including the Lend Lease Headquarters and Macquarie Group Building in Sydney, Council House 2 (CH2), The Melbourne Convention Centre and Southern Cross Station in Melbourne and even Hawaii’s first LEED Platinum building, NELHA.
Our approach allows us to develop great ideas and translate them into delivered products demonstrating real world performance. Our work spans a broad cross section of projects with our teams having specialist expertise in delivering small boutique buildings, major social infrastructure projects for transport, healthcare and education, green precincts and cities as well as progressive green and healthy workplaces.
By bringing the power of ecology to buildings we look to creating solutions that integrate Life, Energy, Water, Nutrients and Future potential into interlinked cycles. We use science and rigorous analysis to test our ideas across all these areas applying a mix of proven software tools with bespoke analysis processes and where necessary our own tools.
Life
- Indoor Environmental Quality
- Connection and integration with Communities
- External Environmental Quality
- Daylight, Views and Visual Comfort
- Oxygen, natural ventilation, fresh air and thermal comfort
- Healthy Materials
Energy
- Accurate dynamic prediction of absolute building, tenant and precinct energy consumption and density
- Real world performance and monitoring
- Onsite renewable and low carbon generation
- Passive design of structure and envelope
- Harvesting of energy from on site nutrients
Water
- Integrated water cycle
- Building and precinct water recycling
- Rainwater, Stormwater, Greywater and Blackwater
Nutrient
- Nutrient extraction and reuse
- Harvesting of waste, atmospheric and water based nutrient
- Interlinking nutrients with landscape and energy design
- Green materials
Future
- Adaptability and flexibility
- Future sustainable potential of the building, precinct and city
- Retrogreening buildings
- Ongoing continual improvement of real world performance