Causewayside

Edinburgh

______ Causewayside is a new PBSA development in Edinburgh which involves the removal of an existing office building to make way for a 174-bed student accommodation block. 

___________Introduction

Causewayside is a new PBSA development in Edinburgh which involves the removal of an existing office building to make way for a 174-bed student accommodation block. 

 

Working on behalf of Balfour Beatty Investments, Carbon Futures have been appointed as the Energy and Sustainability Consultant with a remit to developing the energy, environmental and decarbonisation / Net Zero strategies. 

___________Introduction

Causewayside is a new PBSA development in Edinburgh which involves the removal of an existing office building to make way for a 174-bed student accommodation block. 

 

Working on behalf of Balfour Beatty Investments, Carbon Futures have been appointed as the Energy and Sustainability Consultant with a remit to developing the energy, environmental and decarbonisation / Net Zero strategies. 

___________Our Scope

Incorporating sustainability into all elements of the project has been a key objective from the outset. 

 

Utilising techniques such as Operational Energy Modelling, Embodied / Whole Life Carbon Analysis, Daylight and Sunlight Impact Modelling, Overheating and Air Quality Modelling, will assist to measure and verify performance.

___________Collaboration

This project is a fine example of the benefits to working collaboratively with a skilled, multi-disciplined, design team which includes jmarchitects, Arcadis, Etive Consulting Engineers, Butler Consulting Engineers, OFR Consultants, Montagu Evans, Limited, Sweco, and re-form landscape architecture limited.