Planning for Sustainability provides strategic advice and project support regarding the sustainability and environmental agenda in the area of land use planning and development of construction projects.
Planning for Sustainability aims to deliver forward looking and efficient environmental and sustainability consulting services. To achieve this Planning for Sustainability operates through a small core team of highly skilled and experienced staff taking firm control of the technical content and management of our projects. As with any specialist consultancy, our size and focus allows us to keep our overheads down. We can therefore provide a high standard of service for a reasonable fee.
Leadership
Planning for Sustainability is led by two directors. Professional leadership is provided by Paul Giesberg, a sustainability professional with a strong academic background and over 15 years experience in research, industry and consultancy.
Paul Giesberg is an environment and sustainability professional with strong project management skills and a track record in the efficient delivery of large and complex assignments in the land use development area. Pauls area of expertise includes providing strategic advice to organisations about sustainability and land use issues as well as leading the delivery of the suite of environmental and sustainability documents that are supporting development projects and planning applications.
Paul has undertaken the environmental management for a range of multi-million pound development projects in different sectors including: infrastructure projects, urban regeneration, residential and employment development. Paul’s client base reflects this mix of projects and largely consists of large public sector organizations, blue chip companies as well as a range of smaller privately owned companies and includes CrossRail, English Partnerships and Rolls-Royce. He provides consultancy advice working closely with the design and planning team and co-ordinates the environmental management and sustainable development elements of his projects.
Paul is currently leading the Crossrail BREEAM assessment for two Crossrail Stations.
Samantha Bamford holds an MA from Oxford University and received her PhD from Cambridge University. Prior to joining Planning for Sustainability she worked in the R&D departments for several publicly listed companies.
Our Core Values
We conduct our business adhering to a set of core values. These are:
Clients First
We vigorously advocate our clients’ positions while maintaining our own integrity. We will quickly identify your needs and let you know how we may be able to help. We will explain the information we require, how we work, giving indications of how long each stage may take and what form of support you could receive.
Professional Excellence
We value the importance of doing everything well and being better than the competition. It includes the themes of professionalism, excellence, quality, and reputation. We are committed to achieving excellence at every stage of the projects we work on.
Integrity
Being ethically unyielding and honest and inspiring trust by saying what we mean, matching our behaviours to our words and taking responsibility for our actions. We recognize that we can only support our clients’ interests where our opinions are supported by objective analysis.