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Hiring – Senior Sustainability Consultant

Circular Ecology

Join Circular Ecology. An opportunity is available for an enthusiastic and dedicated sustainability professional at Senior Consultant level. Working across multiple projects, predominantly assessing carbon footprints and LCA impacts of products and organisations, and the embodied carbon of buildings.   You will have opportunities to work with progressive clients, helping them achieve measurable sustainability benefits. […]

We Are Hiring – Project Manager – Embodied Carbon in Construction

Circular Ecology

Join Circular Ecology. An opportunity is available for an enthusiastic and dedicated Project Manager. This role will mainly involve managing the delivery of our Sustainability Consultancy projects, particularly whole life embodied carbon assessments. Primarily in the infrastructure and building sectors. We also undertake organisational GHG footprints, product carbon footprints, and full life cycle assessments in […]

We Are Hiring – Sustainability Analyst – Carbon Footprinting

Circular Ecology

Join Circular Ecology. An opportunity is available for an enthusiastic and dedicated sustainability professional. Working across multiple projects, predominantly assessing carbon footprints and LCA impacts of products, and the embodied carbon of buildings and infrastructure.   You will have opportunities to work with progressive clients, helping them achieve measurable sustainability benefits.   We are looking […]

We Are Hiring – Sustainability Consultant

Circular Ecology

Join Circular Ecology. An opportunity is available for an enthusiastic and dedicated sustainability professional. Working across multiple projects, predominantly assessing carbon footprints and LCA impacts of products and organisations, and the embodied carbon of buildings.   You will have opportunities to work with progressive clients, helping them achieve measurable sustainability benefits.   We are looking […]

Defra 2023 Emissions Factors Released

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The UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) have just released the 2023 edition of conversion factors for calculating greenhouse gas emissions. The factors cover emissions from a wide range of activities including energy, transportation, water and waste disposal. What’s changed? Below you can see the Scope 2 emissions of the UK’s electricity […]

Potential of Refurbishment Versus Demolition and New Build

Image of a worn down interior of a building.

In the wake of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Repot (AR6) and its findings, there is an urgent need to save as much carbon as possible, and immediately. In the Built Environment, to meet future national and international carbon reduction targets, there is an urgent need to improve the performance of existing buildings. This is because […]

The IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) calls for Rapid Carbon Emission Reductions

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The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its Sixth Assessment Report on 20 March 2023. While the report pictures a gloomy account of consequence of the climate change due to human activities, it outlines options and opportunities that can be taken now to reduce GHG emissions. The report concludes that recent temperature rises […]

Circular Ecology Welcomes Behzad Sodagar

Circular Ecology

Circular Ecology are delighted to welcome Professor Behzad Sodagar to Circular Ecology. Behzad joins us as a Principal Sustainability Consultant. Prior to this, he was professor of Sustainable Architecture at University of Lincoln. He has over 30 years’ experience as a practitioner, researcher and educator in the built environment.  He has qualifications in Architectural Engineering […]

How Does Watching the World Cup at Home Compare to Travelling to the Games?

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As the 2022 edition of the FIFA World Cup continues in Qatar, more focus is being given to the carbon impact of this event. With a cumulative attendance of over 2.45 million people for the first 48 matches alone, the impact of fans travelling from all over the world to Qatar for the event is […]

Circular Ecology Have Planted 250,000 Trees

A planter for Eden Reforestation Projects holds the mangrove seeds that will be planted

Circular Ecology have now planted 250,000 trees! Back in January, we shared the news that we had reached a milestone of 100,000 trees planted. Circular Ecology can proudly to announce that we have achieved our next goal of planting 250,000 trees. We have embedded tree planting into the core of our company activities. We plant […]