Consider a new residential or office building. Unlike a mobile phone for example, a building does not get turned over every few years and rebuilt using latest advancements in technology. This has many ramifications for sustainability:
- Ensuring the best available technologies during the construction stage and making sure the building is made as future proof.
- Benchmarking the building at set intervals during its lifecycle to ensure new technologies can be incorporated.
- Ensuring residents of the building are given appropriate education to assist in minimising their carbon footprint.
We call this ongoing commitment to our clients and the environment "lifecycle consulting". This approach springs from a recognition that technology cannot utilise a "build and walk away" model. The need for environmentally sustainable outcomes in business and for individuals has made dilkara’s lifecycle approach the best way forward in the new 21st Century carbon economy.
dilkara’s differentiator is that we are structured to provide these end-to-end services across our lines of business:
- Manage projects from end to end to work in partnership with our clients to achieve real sustainable developments.
- Consult and recommend on ESD benefits and implement the steps and measures recommended.
- Plan, design and document the project scope and specification, while ensuring all commercial and economic metrics are observed
- Take breakthrough sustainable development projects from concept through the DA process successfully
- provide integrated active environmental technologies and solutions that are required to maximise efficiency to achieve pragmatic (or aggressive) emissions targets
- Understand and deliver projects to recognised standards and codes, such as AGBR, Greenstar and the BCA.
- grid-independent power solutions
- energy efficiency programs & solutions
- recycling programs
- advanced technology integration
- long-term monitoring and periodical reporting of environmental performance
- dilkara’s lifecycle consulting programs
- long term power contracts
- Ecological & sustainable construction design and integration of active technologies.
- Cost planning and control.
- Project documentation services.
- Drafting services.
- Provision of carbon emissions inventories and associated reporting.
- Sustainability and efficiency audits.
- Upgrade planning and implementation services, encompassing the measurement of your emission baseline.
- Baseline monitoring and recommended control practices.
- Business case development, project implementation, execution and management.
- Risk assessment services.
- Tender management and selection.
- Understanding and management of legislative change.
- Town planning.