Real Estate & Urban Development

Developers make decisions in the planning stage that set a project's environmental performance for decades. We help them meet approval requirements and build practical sustainability measures into design and operation.

Overview

Residential communities, commercial districts and mixed-use projects combine construction impacts with long-term questions about water, wastewater, waste, energy and open space. Investors, lenders and future occupants increasingly ask how these issues have been addressed.

Lothan works with developers and their design teams to identify environmental approval requirements, coordinate impact assessment through licensed entities and define sustainability priorities that can be carried into design, construction contracts and facility operation.

Sector challenges

01
Approvals at master planning stage
Large developments may need environmental assessment and approvals that influence layout, phasing and infrastructure.
02
Construction-phase obligations
Approval conditions must be carried into contracts and applied by contractors across several phases and plots.
03
Water, wastewater and waste in operation
Completed communities need workable systems for water use, wastewater, reuse and waste collection.
04
Investor and occupant expectations
Buyers, tenants and financiers ask for credible information on sustainability measures and performance.

How we help

01
Approval pathway and EIA coordination
We identify the approvals the development needs and coordinate assessment work through licensed entities.
02
Environmental conditions in contracts
We translate approval conditions into contractor requirements and follow them up across phases.
03
Utility and waste planning
With technical partners we review options for water efficiency, wastewater reuse and waste collection at design stage.
04
Sustainability priorities and disclosure
We help set measurable sustainability priorities and prepare clear information for investors and occupants.