INTERIORS & INTERIOR DESIGN
BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
How CBG Consultants Are Shaping Low-Energy Design.
The construction industry is ever evolving to meet the pressing environmental challenges of our time, embracing innovative practices and adopting low-energy design as a foundation for responsible, future-focused development. CBG Consultants demonstrate through their practices and projects that sustainability and performance can go hand in hand. From listed landmarks to affordable housing schemes, their projects showcase what’ s possible when forward-thinking strategies are embedded at every stage of the design and build process.
For CBG Consultants, low-carbon, low-energy design is a core principle, ensuring clients benefit from long-term efficiency, lower carbon footprints, and smarter solutions that perform in the real world.
This philosophy was brought to life with the awardwinning Blenheim Grove development in Peckham Rye, when it recently obtained a RIBA London Award in 2025. Developed on a vacant brownfield site adjacent to a railway line, the scheme created seven new-build homes under the Greater London Authority’ s Custom Build Housing Programme.
Unboxed Homes led the development, working with architecture studio Poulsom Middlehurst to design a series of shell-only dwellings, which buyers would later customise and fit out themselves.
CBG Consultants were invited by Yard Architects to develop one of the houses and join the project at RIBA Stage 3, following the initial planning. Working closely with both architect and client, CBG helped evolve the design into a lowcarbon scheme, developing a performance M & E specification for contractor pricing and overseeing inspections throughout the process. Their role was pivotal in ensuring the homes delivered on their environmental potential.
Energy modelling was carried out to optimise building fabric performance before any technology was considered. This ensured the structure itself supported sustainable outcomes and laid the foundation for the low-carbon technologies that followed. The fit-out incorporated air source heat pumps for both heating and hot water, supported by underfloor heating and a heat pump-based air conditioning system to provide comfort throughout
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