Overview
At the Landscape Institute (LI) we’re keen to show leadership around tackling embodied carbon in the landscape sector. Given its vital importance we are taking forward our Landscape & Carbon report recommendations by commissioning outputs that are of value to practitioners and that fit with existing sector materials / standards.
We welcome short Expressions of Interest to deliver some / all the outputs below:
Create a Database of Landscape Carbon Tools
- Develop a searchable database of the scope, granularity and usability of the various publicly available carbon tools for landscape. This database would be made freely available online for user searches.
- Write a summary article analysing the findings.
- Provide contact information / links for the various tools.
- Work with the LI to ensure the outputs remain current and easily updatable for 12 months post-completion.
Produce articles / other outputs on Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) and Product Category Rules (PCR) in the landscape sector
- The outputs should provide key facts about EPDs (and PCRs), summarise their use for both softscape and hardscape sectors (benefits / issues etc), provide details on 3rd party accreditation processes and related timeline and cost details, include contact information / links and ways of ensuring supplier value for money.
- Develop an EPD stakeholder map.
- Provide case studies of successful EPD usage in a range of landscape products including soft and hardscape sectors.
- Work with the LI to ensure the outputs remain current and easily updatable for 12 months post-completion.
- Separate bids for softscape and / or hardscape outputs are acceptable, taking account of consultant expertise. If separate providers are contracted for softscape and hardscape, they would be expected to collaborate to ensure standardised, joined-up outputs.
Create a Database of EPD databanks
- Create a publicly searchable database of the scope, granularity & usability of the most common EPD databanks for landscape. This database would then be made available online for user searches & analysis.
- Write an article summarizing the use of EPD databanks, highlighting their pros and cons, the process involved in registering EPDs, the timelines involved, relevant databank contact details and further information.
- Work with the LI to ensure the outputs remain current and easily updatable for 12 months post-completion.
Develop a landscape carbon overlay to the RIBA Plan of Works
- The overlay would set out the key considerations that landscape practitioners should be taking at each project stage that will enable reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and increases in carbon sequestration.
- The overlay should be in a format that enables easy, relevant use by landscape practitioners on carbon-related resources.
- A comprehensive checklist to guide the decision-making process for practitioners would accompany the overlay and set out the considerations in more detail.
Your EoI should include:
- details of the individual(s) who will be delivering the work
- the proposed outputs, delivery methodologies and timelines
- costings (inc. number of days & daily rate)
- modes of post-delivery publicity
- work with other partners and any potential policy actions.
If you are interested in applying for some / all of this work, please send a short Expression of Interest (EoI) to human.resource@landscapeinstitute.org by 9am on Mon 10 February. The subject line of your cover email should read ‘EoI L&C Consultancy, FAO Andrew Rylah’.
Selection of successful candidates will be based on the EoI and an interview (probably w/c 17 February) by landscape-sector practitioners, with a view to delivery starting soon after appointment. We’d like work to be completed by the end of June 2025.
To apply for this job email your details to human.resource@landscapeinstitute.org.