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GRO study

From contextual analysis to the final submission.

Monitoring and reporting on the CIRC and MAT categories, drafting of the deliverables and support in reaching the target level.

A client who runs a project under GRO selects the applicable criteria, sets the performance levels and gathers the evidence that supports them. This work calls for sustainability expertise that the project team does not always have in-house. We take it on, from contextual analysis to the final submission.

GRO study.

Reach the highest level of ambition on your project's circularity and materials.

You hand us the project. We select the applicable criteria, set the performance levels before design begins, document CIRC and MAT as choices are made, and produce the evidence the framework requires.

Price on request

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What you receive
The categories
Both categories documented, with the evidence required for each criterion.
The deliverables
The deliverables written in the framework's format, ready to include in the submission.
Monitoring
Continuous monitoring from the first sketch to submission, with no break between stages.
The level
The target level, set at the outset, and the gap still to close at each stage.
The stakes

A framework with three levels.

GRO assesses a project across eight themes, including CIRC for circularity and MAT for materials. Each criterion is set at one of three levels of ambition: good, better, excellent. The same summary file follows the project from the first sketch to the submission.

Framing the brief before design begins.

At level 0, the client selects the applicable criteria and sets the minimum performance levels before the design team starts work. The trade-offs made at this point avoid costly rework later.

Taking on the client's role.

We fill this role on the client's behalf. We select the applicable criteria, set the performance levels before design begins, document CIRC and MAT as choices are made, and produce the evidence up to contract award. The client makes the submission itself.

The steps
01
The ambition
Your drawings and the project specification. We set the sustainability ambition and determine the target performance level for each theme.
02
The design
Each relevant criterion is documented as design choices are made. Gaps are flagged, and the points still within reach are named.
03
Contract award
The evidence, written in the framework's format and ready to include in the submission. The client submits the file, and we stay involved until it is handed in.
The method

It documents and drafts, but the score is won in the project itself.

The achievable level depends on what the project already contains: its structure, its materials, its potential for disassembly. We examine these and agree with you which of the three levels the project can aim for: good, better or excellent.

The design team makes the design choices, and we show their consequences for the score.