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Energy and Built Environment

Through our extensive network of Energy and Built Environment experts, we are able to offer a wide catalogue of topics that we can deliver in-person, online or in a blended format.


Click on the accordion tabs below to view the topics that fall under each heading.

  • Energy Policy

    • Scottish, UK, and international policy covering energy, the built environment, renewable energy, energy efficiency, behaviour change, climate change, and fuel poverty.
    • Fuel types, technologies, opportunities, limitations, costs, and benefits
    • Policy evaluation.

  • Carbon and Sustainability Accounting

    • Organisational greenhouse gas management.
    • Top-down and bottom-up carbon and sustainability accounting.
    • Accounting for social costs.
    • Evaluation.

  • Residential and Commercial Buildings

    • Understanding energy performance assessments.
    • Demand side management.
    • District Heating Systems (including 4th generation).
    • Geothermal.
    • Heat pumps (air source, ground source, water source).
    • Whole-life energy and carbon costs.
    • Retrofitting for energy efficiency and sustainability.

  • Policy Agendas

    • Understanding, interpreting, and communicating policy.
    • Influencing public and private policy.
    • Working with stakeholders and political champions.

  • Demand Side Management

    • Demand reduction.
    • Retrofitting for net zero.
    • Behaviour change.

  • Environmental Impact of Technology

    • Using appropriate technology.
    • Reducing the environmental impact of technology.
    • Using technology to reduce energy demand and influence behaviour.

  • Fuel Poverty

    • Defining, measuring, and mapping fuel poverty.
    • Understanding fuel poverty as a complex problem.
    • Tackling fuel poverty using technological, economic and social measures.

  • Electronic Waste Management

    • International regulations – the UK, the EU, the USA, China, India, etc. 
    • Managing waste electrical and electronic equipment.
    • Reducing the use of hazardous substances.
    • Eco-design.
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