Environmental
Planning Services
Love Design Studio offers a diverse array of environmental planning services for design teams, streamlining communication by offering holistic advice across different workstreams.
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Air quality is an important Public Health issue in the UK and more critically, London. It disproportionately impacting on the most vulnerable. Our team carry out various Air Quality-related services at the planning stage.
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Understanding, at micro-level, how a building can 'breath', 'sweat' and 'control temperature' is key to quantifying building performance; that's why at Love Design Studio we carry out Building Physics modelling.
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Whether you are a homeowner who wants to meet the highest sustainable standards or a developer looking to meet the demands of sustainability policy, sustainable certification schemes are a useful and somewhat necessary tool to drive standards. Love Design Studio are certified Low Carbon Energy Assessors (LCEA) and Low Carbon Consultants (LCC). We also cover such certification schemes as; BREEAM, Passivhaus and NABERS Certification.
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A Circular Economy is one where materials are retained in use at their highest value for as long as possible and are then reused or recycled, leaving a minimum of residual waste. We use a pragmatic & collaborative approach to our Circular Economy work whether it be planning or client decision-led.
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Daylight and Sunlight requirements are key in helping to create healthy homes. Poorly lit homes can be detrimental to occupant health. Love Design Studio have extensive experience in producing daylight & sunlight impact assessments and internal daylight assessments for planning. We also have the capability of producing early-stage rights to light and glare assessment guidance.
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As per the WorldGBC: “Buildings are currently responsible for 39% of global energy related carbon emissions: 28% from operational emissions, from energy needed to heat, cool and power them, and the remaining 11% from materials and construction”. Love Design Studio carry out Whole Life-Cycle Carbon and Upfront Embodied Carbon assessments to help design teams reduce carbon emissions beyond regulated operational carbon.
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We conduct ecology, biodiversity, and urban green factor assessments to understand and enhance the environmental impact of our projects. Our approach integrates ecological principles and biodiversity considerations, ensuring our designs contribute positively to local ecosystems and urban green spaces. We undertake life-cycle analyses of materials, including the compilation of Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs).
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It is important to combine the experience of sustainability consultancy with engineering to ensure that schemes are providing sufficient space and routes for critical mechanical and electrical services. We combine with our engineers to provide early-stage building services guidance.
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Energy Assessments are the accompanying reports for planning applications that demonstrate how the development meets or exceeds sustainability planning policy and reduces CO2 emissions reductions over Part L Building Regulations. Energy is our core service and our team have experience in delivering fro minor developments, major developments and GLA-referable schemes.
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We work with our external partners to deliver noise and vibration support to design teams.
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Our Team at Love Design Studio have a holistic understanding of environmental considerations so we never think about one scope in silo. This means that we can look after multiple scopes at the planning stage which helps streamline the planning and management process.
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Love Design Studio can help your company perform better in all aspects of sustainability within the built environment. We advise on how your company can improve its own internal sustainability framework, we also advise on how your company can encourage whole design teams to improve their sustainability credentials on each project. For planning we utilise regional and local policy & other related frameworks to help inform on improving the scheme’s sustainability credentials.
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Although we take a building fabric-first approach, we often require the adoption of Low & Zero Carbon technologies to reduce overall energy consumption of buildings. Love Design Studio have the tools to carry out CAPEX/OPEX calculations to help developers make informed decisions on strategies.
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In sustainable building design, addressing thermal bridging is crucial for reducing heat loss. It has become a vital component in ensuring buildings meet and exceed regulatory and carbon emission targets.
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The term 'overheating' is not well defined, but typically refers to discomfort; however, growingly in the UK overheating can be detrimental to the experience of the tenant; especially those most vulnerable to the impacts of overheating. We use our various building performance tools to advise and validate the thermal performance of schemes and advise on design changes to our schemes.
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Local Authorities are increasingly asking for pedestrian comfort analysis in urban, suburban and peri-urban areas at the planning stage. Love Design Studio can help support developments at planning stage for such schemes using various computational fluid dynamic (CFD) tools.