Temple

At Temple, we are leaders in the field of built and natural environments and creating sustainable futures.

Temple offers a wealth of experience in the rail sector, working on some of the UK’s largest and most complex projects, including High Speed 2, Crossrail, Thameslink Programme, and the Channel Tunnel Rail Link.

Collaboration, respect, and inclusivity are at the core of how we work in the delivery of our consulting projects. Our aim always is to accelerate sustainable action and positive change for our clients, communities, and planet.

We work with government – national, regional, and local as well as major infrastructure clients to help shape policy/strategy as well as deliver at programme/project level. As part of the latter, we manage impacts, improve resilience, and add value at all stages. From planning and design to construction, operation, and asset renewal. We help set the environmental and social parameters for development and identify core objectives to be consistent with sustainability goals and best practices.

Our light rail services include:

• Feasibility and options appraisals.
• Sustainability appraisals.
• Supporting business case requirements with environmental and sustainability inputs, including WebTAG.
• Support to the engineering design teams through concept / outline design through to detailed design.
• Strategic environmental assessments and environmental impact assessments, including screening and scoping.
• Socio-economic and social value assessments.
• Support for public exhibitions and consultations.
• Traffic, sound noise and vibration, air quality, climate change/greenhouse gas emissions modelling.
• Pre and post-consent ecological and arboricultural surveys such as tree preservation orders advice.
• Construction and operational environment management systems and ongoing monitoring.

Our high-speed rail services include:

• Route operations appraisal.
• Route development.
• Sustainable design.
• Mitigation integration.
• Hybrid bills.
• Parliamentary select committees.
• Stakeholder engagement and consultation.
• EIA.
• Sift appraisals.

Our conventional rail services include:

• Specialist environmental, planning and sustainability services.
• Informing investment, infrastructure development, operation, enhancement, maintenance, and renewal works, to drive the right outcomes.
• Strategic advice.
• Delivering specific technical and management services including noise, air quality, biodiversity, green infrastructure, landscape, water, heritage, materials, and waste.
• Working at all stages of the project lifecycle – providing standalone services or seamlessly integrating them into a wider offering.