LHC Design

Organisation Bio

We are driven by our purpose of creating a better future through intelligent, cultural and sustainable design. Our values are central to our approach to business and design. Working in partnership, we are passionate about creating places that enrich people’s lives and support local communities, whilst addressing the global challenge of climate change.

Product/Services

sustainable construction

What we provide

Delivering sustainable designs for our green future through a sustainable and holistic approach.

Sustainable Design Tailored to meet your aspirations. We offer a wide range of sustainable design services to our clients which can be adapted to suit the needs and sustainability outcomes of a project, including:

Sustainability Briefing
Passivhaus Design Services
Low Operational and Embodied Carbon Designs
Applying LETI, RIBA 2030 and other Climate Challenge metrics
Embodied Carbon Analysis
Assist with BREEAM Assessments
Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE)
Assist with Biodiversity Net Gain Assessments
Building with Nature Assessments

Accreditations

iso14001 living wage

About our climate journey

LHC design is committed to reducing our impact on the planet. We recognize that our work in the
built and natural environment has an impact and we are concentrating our efforts on ensuring our approach to business, design and people responds positively to the climate and environmental crisis we collectively face.

LHC’s Clean Growth Strategy (available to download here: https://lhc.net/sustainability/) sets a number of policies and targets that seek to reduce our environmental footprint and operate in a sustainable way. Much of the report aligns, and has been informed by, global initiatives such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s), the RIBA Climate Challenge, UK Architecture and Landscape Climate and Biodiversity Emergency, Plymouth Resurgam, Devon Climate Emergency and Exeter City Future Net Zero Plans. In doing so we have set out our own targets for improvement and plan to report on these in the future. Collectively we look forward to the future journey we have mapped out.

Our climate journey

COMMITTED TO NET ZERO?
CARBON FOOTPRINT CALCULATED?
CLIMATE ACTION PLAN WRITTEN?
MONITORING IMPACT YEARLY?
PLAN TO BE NET ZERO BY...?

2030


See our Climate Action plan

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Biggest climate achievement to date

As part of our pledge to address the climate and biodiversity emergency, we have developed our own Clean Growth Strategy, which sets ambitious policies and targets that will help us to reduce our environmental footprint and operate in a more sustainable way.

We have also started to calculate our environmental footprint by measuring carbon emissions from our business activities on an annual basis, which will be measured against a 2019 baseline. We aim to use this data to establish strategies of minimizing future GHG emissions and pledge to offset our residual carbon footprint to target carbon neutral operations from 2023 and help us to transition towards Net Zero operations by 2050.

We take a reduction first approach to our carbon footprint. However, in recognition of the impact of our operations, we are investing in UK woodland creation projects that will capture CO2 over the next years. growing trees will also provide wider co-benefits beyond climate mitigation, including flood alleviation water quality improvements, habitat creation, employment, sustainable timber and cleaner air.

To find out more our carbon reduction plan, please download our Clean Growth Strategy and Environmental Footprint Report.

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