Mesh Wins Energy Efficiency Consultancy of the Year at South East Energy Efficiency Awards

Building performance and services engineering specialist Mesh has been named Energy Efficiency Consultancy of the Year at the South East Energy Efficiency Awards in recognition of its forward-thinking approach to low-carbon design, energy solutions, decarbonisation and compliance across the built environment.

This accolade celebrates Mesh's contribution to innovation to improve the energy performance of buildings and estates across a diverse range of sectors.

The award recognises its team’s commitment to providing architects, developers, planning consultants and building owners in public and private sectors with robust, data-driven technical insight to inform concept design and planning and for Mesh’s combination of energy strategy development and building services design to futureproof both new and existing buildings.

Doug Johnson, Founding Director of Mesh:

“The built environment is facing significant regulatory and cultural shifts. In the residential sector, the Future Homes Standard, Awaab's Law, the Warm Homes Plan and the drive to net zero are creating a much more complex and often contradictory landscape for architects, developers and housing providers.

Requirements are becoming ever more stringent, particularly in response to climate change – Part O, Part L, local planning policies such as DEV32 in the Southwest and the exacting technical requirements of Paragraph 84 for applications for rural dwellings.

Our role is to help our clients navigate through this continually changing regulatory environment and to make the technical case for better buildings by providing evidence-based analysis and practical solutions to inform decision making.

What distinguishes Mesh in our sector is the scope and integration of our services. Our engineers specialise in dynamic thermal modelling, whole life carbon assessments, Part O overheating analyses, energy strategies, and building services engineering design – under one team. This enables a genuinely joined-up approach to add value to every project.”

Alongside its technical services, Mesh continues to innovate and develop new digital tools for architects and building designers, some of which it makes freely available. These include an Embodied Carbon Calculator for fast, concept-stage carbon assessments with over 95 per cent accuracy, benchmarked against RIBA 2030 and LETI targets.

Our Meshwork platform provides live CPD webinars, on-demand courses and resources aligned with the RIBA Core Curriculum to support over 4,500 construction and building design professionals.

The award also highlighted Mesh’s forward-thinking culture of teamwork and giving back to the communities in which we live and work through regular fundraising challenges and  donating time throughout the year to important local causes.

Recent project highlights

Recent Mesh projects demonstrate the range and technical complexity of work that the business undertakes and include:

• Forestry England – a whole-estate decarbonisation and futureproofing strategy for the 600-acre Grade I heritage landscape at Westonbirth Arboretum, combining renewable energy feasibility, dynamic overheating and ventilation modelling, building fabric optimisation and electrical infrastructure analysis to support a phased transition away from fossil fuels.
  
  
• Affordable housing and social housing projects – supporting housing associations and local authorities with overheating risk analysis and compliance strategies.

• Paragraph 84 national specialism – Mesh has supported multiple Paragraph 84 schemes with integrated building performance analysis, including Part O overheating modelling, whole life carbon assessments, energy and building services feasibility studies, and participation in Design Review Panels.