We publish the number the industry prefers not to model.
Operational carbon is easy to report and easy to improve. Embodied carbon is neither, which is precisely why it decides whether a project should be built at all.
Whole-life reduction
−46%
Certified projects
100%
Net zero target
2040
Offsets counted
None yet
Measured, not estimated
- 46%
- Average whole-life carbon reduction
- 91%
- Structure retained at Porto Atelier
- 100%
- Projects third-party certified
- 4
- Buildings with no mechanical cooling
Against like-for-like baselines, portfolio-wide
4,180 tCO₂e of embodied carbon avoided
Every project designed since 2019
In primary living spaces
A better energy rating does not repay a demolition.
The standard viability assessment counts operational emissions and ignores embodied ones, because operational emissions have a price and embodied emissions do not. The result is an industry that reliably concludes it should knock a sound building down and put up an efficient one.
At Porto Atelier the arithmetic was stark. Rebuilding the 1927 frame in new concrete would have cost roughly 4,180 tCO₂e — thirty-one years of the finished building’s entire operational footprint, spent before anyone moved in. We retained 91% of the structure and accepted an eleven per cent delivery premium.
Every Aurelis project now publishes a whole-life carbon assessment at planning stage, including the counterfactual we rejected and the assumptions behind it. If our numbers are wrong, we would rather that were visible.
Four dates we have put in writing.
- 2027
Whole-life carbon disclosure
Every project publishes a full RICS-methodology whole-life carbon assessment at planning stage, including the counterfactual we rejected. Assumptions published alongside results.
In progress - 2030
Retention before replacement
No site with a structurally sound existing building is acquired for demolition. Where an existing frame can carry the programme, it will be retained regardless of the delivery premium.
Committed - 2033
Zero waste to landfill
All construction waste across the portfolio diverted to reuse or recycling, verified by third-party audit at every site, with monthly reporting made public.
Committed - 2040
Net zero across scope 1, 2 and 3
Including embodied carbon in materials and the full construction supply chain. No offsets counted toward the target before residual emissions fall below 10% of the 2024 baseline.
Committed
Verified by someone with no stake in the answer.
Every project designed since 2019 has been delivered to third-party certification, without exception and without a single project taken to site under a waiver. Certification is a floor, not a target — several of our schemes exceed the credit thresholds by a wide margin in categories that were never assessed.
We don’t just build properties. We create landmarks.
We take on four projects at a time. If you are considering a site, a collaboration or a commission, the conversation starts here — and it starts with a real person reading it.