Environmental Policy - The Manser Practice

The Manser Practice is a multi-award winning practice with a reputation for the highest quality of Architecture. Our principal aim is to design exciting and elegant buildings that are efficiently and sensibly planned so as to enhance the lives of those who use them now and in the future.

In this respect, we regard issues of sustainability and the environment as an integral part of all elements of design and strategy for our projects and this is recognised by our commitment to the following framework:

Always work with the local climatic conditions and to use them to generate of the design. That might involve any combination of use of daylight, passive solar gains, air movement for ventilation and use of movable building elements to provide simple control mechanisms on the internal environment.
Where possible design out the need for mechanical or other energy consuming systems in the environmental control of our buildings.
Liaise with statutory and legislative bodies to challenge and better government targets with regards to reductions in energy consumption.
Whenever possible, make use of local materials, local suppliers and local workforces to carry out our projects.
Recycle and reuse materials wherever practical.
To investigate the possibilities of new technologies and systems and their potential benefit to the carbon footprint and life time cost of the project.

As a company, we will have introduced a comprehensive environmental management system which forms an integral part of our organisational culture of commitment to continual improvement and protection of the environment. Through this we aim to minimise our environmental impact and prevent pollution by:

Reducing energy use, waste production and increase recycling.
Promoting sustainable travel to work to our staff.

The policy will be subject to annual review and update.