I really enjoy my job but I am aware that, though I take public transport, recycle, mostly remember my reusable coffee cup and buy my electricity from renewable sources, the amount of concrete that gets poured into everything I work on makes my personal efforts to “do my bit” in the climate crisis feel a bit pointless. And that is something that nags guiltily at the back of my mind. 

One of the projects I am working on currently, a new-build office building, has a zero carbon ambition within the brief. This is not the first time I have worked on a project with sustainability ambitions or goals, but it is the first time I have been on a project with this much buy-in from all sides of the client, design and construction teams.

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