Built Environment

We care passionately about the natural and built environment, striving for beauty, function and sustainability in all settings and at every scale.

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Built Environment Overview

The environment in which we live faces increasingly complex global challenges, with climate change, economic constraints and a biodiversity crisis shaping the context of natural and built environment projects. Within the SLR family, we respond to these environmental challenges with enthusiasm and innovation, to help our clients meet these challenges head on.

Our experience tells us that the smallest of projects can have a big impact, while even the largest strategies require a detailed understanding of delivery. Our team is shaped to provide outstanding advice from assessment and evaluation of sites, through to delivering transformational physical change; applying our deep understanding of the planning, design and development process to achieve successful outcomes.

Our collaboration across disciplines leaves us in the ideal situation to unlock development, create value and bring forward truly sustainable places that benefit wider society and ensure we're Making Sustainability Happen. 

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Built Environment Related Capabilities

Climate Resilience & Mitigation Planning

SLR can support clients in their climate resilience planning.

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Supporting Technical Services

Construction & Architectural Services

SLR can help by providing construction administration during the design and construction of a project.

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Supporting Technical Services

Process & Civil Engineering

Our civil and structural team is committed to providing sustainable, creative and efficient engineering solutions for the built environment.

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Supporting Technical Services

Transactional & ESG Support

SLR can provide ESG strategic advisory and transactional support to clients.

Supporting Technical Services

Transport & Mobility Planning

Growing demands for urbanisation and mobility require innovative solutions for the design and management of the transport network.

Our specialised team focuses on working in partnership with our clients to minimise consumption and maximise efficiency of the network to achieve sustainable transport, land use and development outcomes.

Supporting Technical Services

Water Resource Studies, Engineering & Natural Capital

SLR’s work in this area seeks to protect water and nature within the communities where we live, work and play.

Supporting Technical Services

Built Environment Projects

  • Red building of Maybury Primary School, with trees and shrubs planted outside
    Project

    Edinburgh, Scotland

    City of Edinburgh Council

    Built Environment

    Maybury Primary School landscape design

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  • Beatlie School campus playground, with sensory garden and play space, a wildlife area, classroom spill-out spaces, outdoor learning area with an orchard, and an area with accessible play equipment
    Project

    Scotland

    West Lothian Council

    Built Environment

    Beatlie School Campus landscape design

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  • healthy soils
    Project

    Scotland, UK

    Scottish Government via ClimateXChange

    Government & Infrastructure

    Securing Scotland’s soils in a changing climate

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  • A contemporary wellness and recreation facility with a sweeping curved roof and floor-to-ceiling glass walls sits within a lush landscaped setting. Outdoor heated pools and winding water features are surrounded by native vegetation, rocks, and wooden pathways. Visitors relax, swim, stroll, and gather throughout the space, while trees and forested areas frame the site under a bright blue sky with scattered clouds.
    Project

    Scottish Borders, Scotland

    Edmond Shipway Limited

    Built Environment

    Microclimate Solutions for Scottish Village Resort

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  • Drawing of Kings Hill development. There is a pond with a boardwalk leading into a park with families, dog walkers and people exercising. Behind this park are some white houses.
    Project

    Coventry, UK

    Warwick District Council

    Built Environment

    Kings Hill masterplan and design code

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  • Greendykes and South Queensferry
    Project

    Edinburgh, UK

    Miller Developments Limited

    Built Environment

    Specialist archaeology and heritage input for proposed development project

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  • Visualisation of a landscaped urban green space with planting, people walking and apartment blocks beyond
    Project

    London, UK

    LandSec U+I

    Government & Communities

    Waste advice for Lewisham town centre regeneration project

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  • Waterfront apartment buildings and harbour lights reflected in still water at dusk
    Project

    UK

    Confidential

    Built Environment

    Evidence based research for harbour place vision

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  • Communal waste and recycling bins set in paved bays in front of new brick townhouses
    Project

    London, UK

    Barking Riverside Limited (BRL)

    Built Environment

    Barking Riverside waste advice for the new outline planning application

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  • Visualisation of a pale student housing block with trees and people relaxing on a lawn
    Project

    Edinburgh, UK

    S1 Developments

    Built Environment

    Old Tynecastle High School PBSA – technical studies

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  • Ardgowan Hotel sign on a stone terraced building at dusk
    Project

    St Andrews, UK

    Ardgowan Hotel

    Built Environment

    Ardgowan Hotel property environmental due diligence

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  • Brick and stone building with a Kwik Fit garage on the ground floor and cars parked outside
    Project

    Edinburgh, UK

    Kwik Fit

    Built Environment

    Kwik Fit property environmental due diligence

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  • Computer-generated visual of large warehouse buildings beside a landscaped roundabout and road
    Project

    Various, UK

    NFU Mutual

    Built Environment

    NFU Mutual portfolio environmental due diligence

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  • Visualisation of new terraced and semi-detached houses with grass verge and hedges
    Project

    Edinburgh, UK

    Taylor Wimpey East Scotland

    Built Environment

    Ratho Station Residential technical studies

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  • Aerial view of large industrial units with grey roofs under construction beside an electricity pylon
    Project

    Sunderland, UK

    Legal & General, via Marick Real Estate

    Built Environment

    Hillthorn Industrial Business Park environmental impact assessment

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  • Visualisation of a modern dark-clad modular home with a car and two people on a driveway
    Project

    Fife, UK

    W J Thomson and Son

    Built Environment

    Lochore Meadows environmental impact assessment

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  • Large Victorian hospital building with corner towers and domed roof behind parked cars
    Project

    Glasgow, UK

    NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde

    Built Environment

    Low and zero carbon study for NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde

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  • City skyline at dusk with a clock tower, spires and domes silhouetted through trees
    Project

    Edinburgh, UK

    PMP on behalf of KanAM

    Built Environment

    Property environmental due diligence for 4 North

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  • Links golf course with gorse in the foreground and fairways running towards the sea
    Project

    Fife, UK

    Dumbarnie Links golf course

    Built Environment

    Dumbarnie Links golf course environmental impact assessment

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  • Person working on a laptop at a timber table on a landscaped roof terrace with flowering planting
    Project

    Manchester, UK

    Mulbury City

    Built Environment

    Landscape proposals for Excelsior Works development

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Our Team Includes

  • Rory Bates Headshot

    Rory Bates

    Built Environment Sector Lead - Europe

  • Tim Whalen, Sector Leader, Built Environment - Canada at SLR

    Tim Whalen

    Sector Leader, Built Environment - Canada

  • Mark Arigoni, US Sector Leader - Built Environment at SLR

    Mark Arigoni

    US Sector Leader - Built Environment

  • Tegan Smith, Built Environment Sector Leader – Asia Pacific at SLR

    Tegan Smith

    Built Environment Sector Leader – Asia Pacific

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