Q Sustain Ltd is an independent award-winning specialist consultancy to the construction industry offering strategic support across many sectors. With a rich and well-established history within the rail industry and large clients such as Network Rail, Virgin Trains, developers such as B&K, U&I and Downing, Q Sustain is able to initiate and deliver key projects, such as the Birmingham New Street Station redevelopment which was the first BREEAM rated station and first to install a Combined Heat & Power (CHP) plant led by us. By utilising Q Sustain’s expertise in design, procurement, contract and implementation of the whole CHP process meant that the District Heating Network (DHN) could be vastly expanded, providing low carbon heat to other parts of the city and reducing the station’s carbon footprint, estimated at approximately 3,700 Tons / year. Q Sustain is able to provide specialist and innovative solutions to assist in the feasibility, design and implementation stages of low carbon projects across all technologies, including CHP, wind, solar PV, batteries and even demand side response. Q Sustain also leads on new forward-thinking strategies such as a sustainability strategy for the Great Northern Rail Project, which encompasses energy and carbon, waste, materials, social and community impact and ecology and biodiversity. Introducing these strategies and others like the Air Quality Action Plan (for Birmingham New Street), which was praised by Network Rail’s Managing Director and regulator (ORR) and a CHP/DHN feasibility study for Manchester City Council is at the core of Q Sustain’s ethos to drive positive change in today’s dynamic environment and environmental challenges.