Our services
We provide a broad palette of services, with this page presenting a non-exhaustive list of examples. We undertake deep, systematic research to deliver environmentally, socially, and financially sustainable solutions to complex challenges. This means that our work is often interdisciplinary, drawing from or integrating different knowledge bases and methods on a project- or client-specific basis. However, most of our work relates to one or a combination of our below core areas.
Air quality
Air quality monitoring and assessment
- Specialist design, deployment, and interpretation of monitoring networks
- Evidence-based and site-specific air quality recommendations
- Before/after monitoring campaigns to quantify real-world effects of interventions
- Baseline air quality studies for planning applications and EIAs
- Indoor air quality testing for schools, offices, and healthcare settings
- Occupational exposure assessments (e.g., with portable sensor technology)
- Sensor performance and data quality assurance
- Technical support for sensor startups, etc.
Clean air guidance and strategy development
- Guidance on compliance with WHO Air Quality Guidelines, EU Directives, or local standards
- Integration of biodiversity and climate resilience into air quality strategies
Design and/or assessment of green infrastructure (living walls, green walls, green roofs, trees, hedges, etc.)
- Site-specific green infrastructure (GI) design for air quality
- Before/after GI performance assessment
- Review third-party work: expert feedback on pre-existing or in-development GI designs
- Targeted CPD offering for relevant professionals
Land management
Opportunity scoping or discovery
- Desk-based research into environmental improvement opportunities, income diversification options, etc.
- On-site (including field- or compartment-specific) initial exploration, such as SWOT analysis
Farm business or estate finance consultancy
- Innovative financing
- Environmental grant schemes
- Advice on contracting
- Natural capital accounting and carbon or biodiversity offsetting (and/or insetting)
- Biodiversity Net Gain
Hands-on land management services
- Land management planning
- Tree safety strategy development
- Woodland management advice
- Habitat surveying and mapping
- Ground-truthing (checking gaps in geospatial data, clarifying boundary issues, soil testing, water flow mapping, mapping permissive (or non-permissive) paths, etc.)
- Arranging tenancy contracts, licenses, or other formal paperwork
- Low-cost biodiversity monitoring
- Ad hoc project management (volunteer or citizen science projects, infrastructure projects, annual/seasonal works)
Sustainability
Broad sustainability advice and support
- Complex systems analysis to investigate interlinkages, trade-offs, feedback loops (potential and existing), and synergies
- Desk-based research into niche problems
- Sustainability strategy and roadmap development, including target-setting
- Integrating climate-focussed sustainability with biodiversity (or nature) conservation and resilience, reduced air pollution exposure, and other environmental priorities
Operational sustainability, compliance, and reporting
- Facilitating a whole organisation approach to sustainability
- Developing, interpreting, or actioning Environmental Management Systems
- CO2e accounting
- Sense-checking existing systems, procedures, or polices
- Signposting and facilitating individuals or teams, to reduce clients' ongoing costs of compliance, system management, monitoring, etc.
- Producing technical reports, research papers, or public-facing documents to measure and/or present progress