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Globally, buildings have a major impact upon the environment through their carbon dioxide emissions, and use of energy, water and resources. Plus we’re all now spending 90% of our time indoors, on average, due to work, travel and home life.

The case for creating people and planet-friendly buildings has never been clearer.

However, building owners, managers and landlords aren’t sustainability experts and, given the range of issues that need to be addressed, it’s understandable they may think ‘Where do I start?’.

At SHIFT, we understand this feeling which is why we’ve channelled 15-years of experience into creating unique audit and accreditation systems. This provides our clients with an easy-to-understand, practical roadmap outlining how to turn their existing building stock into a sustainable resource which saves money, improves efficiency and meets regulations. This enables clients to effectively plan work and financial budgets, all the way to 2050 if required.

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We take pride in the fact that our experience and independence means we offer unbiased and reliable advice. You can have confidence knowing our roadmap is in the best interest of your company, your clients and the planet when you present it to management and boards of directors.

The SHIFT approach is offered as the following services:

SHIFT Sustainability Standard

Specifically for social landlords, we’ve created bespoke tools and calculators for our SHIFT sustainability standard. This enables our expert team to assess the full environmental impact of your activities and deliver a bespoke action plan for embedding sustainability.

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SECR Reporting

We convert your raw data into energy and carbon dioxide emissions – scope 1, 2 and 3 – and produce a statement report in the correct format to meet your building stock’s Streamlined Energy & Carbon Reporting (SECR) legal requirements.

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ESG Reporting

The SHIFT approach aligns with the ‘environmental’ part of the current iteration of the Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) reporting, showing how the building stock adheres to ESG expectations.

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EPC/SAP

We are pleased to have our very own Domestic Energy Assessors on our team. This means we can now do Local (Stroud) DEA and Consulting service for organisations with a domestic property portfolio.
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Post-Occupancy Evaluation

For both new-build and refurbishments, SHIFT can monitor energy, water use plus a range of other environmental features, analysing how practical operation meets design intent.

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Net Zero Carbon Roadmaps

We put your operational carbon dioxide emissions under the microscope and produce a detailed road map outlining the measures necessary to achieve 2050 Net Zero compliance.

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“We appreciate the insight and support Annie and Richard have given us throughout the process of developing our sustainability plan. Their input has been instrumental in shaping the content, structure and direction of the plan, and we genuinely could not have progressed this far without SHIFT’s guidance.”

Vic Cox - Director of Assets & Sustainability, Trivallis - August 2025

''Thanks to Rob and the team for our latest environmental report. SHIFT’s unique benchmarking dataset is ultra-useful and we know exactly how we perform compared to our peers''

Lucy Breeze - Sustainability Manager, Golding Homes - August 2025

“The SHIFT Sustainability report provides us with an invaluable, evidence-based overview of our environmental performance. It gives us not only a clear understanding of our current footprint, but also a strategic pathway towards measurable, long-term improvements. Our knowledgeable assessor Steve was always available to help throughout, and produced a great, timely report.”

Molly Auchterlonie - Environmental and Sustainability Business Partner - Finance, Stonewater - August 2025

''We were very pleased with the production of our 2025 SHIFT report and the validation of our energy and carbon data. Tom’s thorough and diligent approach has given us real confidence in the accuracy of the information and the insight that SHIFT gives us on our data, benchmarked with other social landlords, is of real value to us."

Jonny Mobbs - Head of Sustainability, Midland Heart - September 2025

“Good sustainability data underpins our environmental ambitions for 2030. Achieving Gold in the SHIFT assessment has given our teams confidence we are heading in the right direction when it comes to data quality, and making genuine improvements in performance.”

Cecily Church - Head of Sustainability, Fairhive Homes - September 2025

“The SHIFT report is a unique benchmarking tool which allows us to monitor our sustainability progress against our peers. Our assessor, Steve, was available to help at every stage of the process, travelled up to present the findings of the report and conduct a mini office sustainability audit. Thank you.”

Chris Hunt - Sustainable Development Officer, Grampian Housing Association - October 2025

‘‘I was highly impressed with how thorough and diligent our assessor Annie Murray was throughout the process. She worked closely with data owners and answered any data queries promptly.’’

Dan Moore - Environmental Specialist, Sovereign Network Group - October 2025

"Thanks, Millie, for all your help with the SECR report. It's been great working together to understand the data we have and where to report these emissions. This report is very useful, as it shows the breakdown of carbon emissions and identifies current improvements from the previous year and further areas for improvement. This data is extremely valuable to Cobalt, and will help us demonstrate our ESG performance to relevant stakeholders, as well as direct our operations as we race to achieve Net Zero."

James Fay - Sustainability Officer, Cobalt Housing - October 2025

‘‘Working with SHIFT was absolutely essential to our sustainability plans. We rely entirely on SHIFT for their objectivity and expertise which we don’t have in-house. SHIFT actually look at our current practice and give us recommendations from a place of expertise. We would absolutely recommend SHIFT, and have done.’’

Adam West - Business Performance Officer, Beacon Cymru Group - November 2025

“We greatly appreciated Millie’s support in helping us interpret our data and incorporate it into the SHIFT report. Her insight was invaluable in identifying our environmental strengths and areas for improvement. We were pleased to use the report as a foundation for encouraging further sustainable enhancements across our wider business activities.”

Gavin Roberts - Head of Environmental, Sustainability and Decarbonisation, Halton Housing - December 2025

‘‘Shift were a brilliant partner for our ESOS compliance and the reports have provided valuable insight. The process was thorough, clearly presented, and tailored to our needs. Our SHIFT Assessor, Steve, was always available to provide help and advice throughout the process. Thank you.’’

Emma Detain - Sustainability Manager, Huel - December 2025

‘‘I was grateful to Annie for sense checking our new carbon calculator tool; we really value the independent verification and quality assurance work SHIFT provides.’’

Kris Atkins - Director, Ocker Environmental - December 2025

“It’s been another great year working with SHIFT to produce our environmental report, which has continued to support improvements in our environmental performance and data quality. We particularly valued the discussions around the monitoring of our new build homes.”

Tegan Heard -  Sustainability Manager, Livewest - December 2025