Brooks Devlin is a holistic environmental design practice with over 15 years’ experience. We help our clients create sustainable, compliant buildings with an expert, proactive approach that draws on many disciplines.

BD have teamed up with Gary Jackson, a very experienced Masterplanner, to spearhead a unique piece of research for Passivhaus in the UK. Working with our academic research partner, UCL, and upto 6no. MSc students we will be exploring the impact of Passivhaus design on masterplanning, looking in particular at any impacts on: layout/massing/orientation/density/viability/design. The outcomes are expected to set down principles/rules and a set of tools that could assist in optimising masterplans to meet Passivhaus principles. This is important work as we firmly believe Passivhaus will be a significant contributor towards meeting the 2016 zero carbon milestone and will reduce the potential amount of spend required on on/off site allowable solutions.

For further info: Julian Brooks 01308 487012 julian@brooksdevlin.com

We have reached another milestone at Brooks Devlin with all BREEAM building types now being offerred in house via our BREEAM Assessor Lisa Heal. Lisa completed the last building type exam, “Commercial” in March , this means we can offer the following building type assessments:

Public: Prisons, Courts, Higher Education, Education, Healthcare,

Commercial: Offices, Retail, Industrial

Multi Residential: Extracare, Student Accommodation et al

Other Buildings: Bespoke et al

We are very pleased to welcome our newest employee, John Fowler, who started on 30th April 2012. John is a recent Post Graduate from the Centre for Alternative Technology where he achieved a Distinction  in the MSc Advanced Energy and Environmental Studies course. John will become our third Code for Sustainable Homes and SAP Assessor along with undertaking further roles involving dynamic thermal modelling, renewable energy systems design and low energy fabric solutions. John is also a keen climber and carries out specialised rope access conservation and building survey work.