Our commitment:
We strive to be a sustainable leader in our field, an agent of change that advocates for the livelihood of future generations through our daily actions in practice operation, projects’ work, community involvement and education.
In 2024, under the direction of Practice Capital, ORA achieved Carbon Neutrality while ensuring our practice operated with fairness, honesty, accountability, and integrity in alignment with the 17 UN Global Sustainable Development Goals.
We aim to tackle Carbon Emissions, resource consumption and biodiversity losses in every project and community’s work in collaboration and education with our clients, partners, contractors and suppliers.
Case Study 1 – Embodied Carbon Calculation
As part of our commitment and leadership to sustainability. We are happy to share our Excel spreadsheet as an opensource database for scrutiny and reused and is available upon request. We kindly ask that you acknowledge us when using our spreadsheet and share your final product spreadsheet in return.
We are also welcome any feedbacks that you might have.
For the PDFs of the discussion paper and calculation, please download from the link below.
Embodied Energy Calculation Narembeen Shire Refurb paper241210
Sustainable Action Plan – In progress.
We recognise the importance and urgency of addressing the global ecological crisis, especially the threat of climate change and biodiversity loss. This crisis impacts both global and local in the Wheatbelt, Great Southern, and South West regions of Western Australia and will continue into many future generations.
The construction industry contributes to nearly 40% of carbon emissions globally. It is one of the biggest sectors of global resource consumption, and we, the architects, have a crucial role in making the changes.
This document presents our commitment to sustainability as a practice, guide, and compass for our daily activities. It is a call to our clients, collaborators, and community to move towards a regenerative future.