Steensen Varming’s range of skills puts it in a unique position to comprehensively deal with some of the most important issues of our time such as climate change.  William McDonagh has termed the phrase cradle-to-cradle which goes beyond life cycle or traditional cradle to grave based solutions.  It also deals with the fundamental approach of designing buildings / systems / communities etc to be environmentally beneficial rather than just less destructive.

The design of new facilities alone cannot solve the challenges faced by the built environment, either now or the future.  As well as embracing the principles of an energy hierarchy and providing strategic advice on green house gas “deep cut” scenarios.  We understand the need to give equal importance to pre commissioning and the ongoing operation of buildings through facilities support.  In order to assist in the delivery of optimum solutions we offer the following specialist advices:

      Services Master Planning / Optimum System Solutions

      Life Cycle and Cradle-to-Cradle Advice

      “Deep Cut” Energy and GhG Strategies

      Maintenance and Implementation Management

      Facilities Management Support Services

      Operationally Informed Design

      Building Adaptability and Active / Passive Initiative Upgrades

We believe the era for the traditional Mechanical and Electrical Consultant is well past and we at Steensen Varming have been moving away from this for some time, our role is more as system integrators / strategists or building physicists / physiologists.

To complement our leadership approach we have made a non negotiable professional / ethical commitment to integrate appropriate sustainable initiatives in all our work.