About – Whole Cycle Ltd
The company is led by Dr Crispin W. Hayes CEnv MIEnvSc MEI who is Principal and Director. He is a Member of the Institute of Environmental Science and Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Highways and Transport, and the Association of Project Management.
Crispin has been working in sustainability since 2003 when he carried out his first community-focussed active project which engaged unemployed young people to be part of building local all abilities paths. A subsequent project received a Highly Commended at the Scottish Transport Awards.
We have a dynamic team including engineers, GIS experts and community engagement specialists which creates a breadth of skills and experience.
We consider that we are the sustainability consultancy with one of the lowest carbon impact of any consultancy within the UK. Our clients can be confident that we have already taken significant steps over several years to achieve that status. We base our assertion on the following
Our policy is to use public transport wherever possible, and make connections to project sites by bike. Where in some rural situations, this isn’t feasible we use electric vehicles.
We have operated EVs since 2014 when our first Nissan Leaf was brought into consultancy use. And since that time, our own charging has been with 100% renewable energy.
Our websites & mail are hosted by providers who run on 100% renewable energy. We have our cloud collaboration on a Nextcloud service hosted in Germany also on 100% renewable energy.
We carefully select new and used equipment that has a long lifecycle, and choose to upgrade rather than replace. We aim to get more than 7 years of service from computer hardware, while at the same time running the latest software. We are able to avoid early redundancy by investing in high spec hardware initially.
We take data protection very seriously and are registered with the Information Commissioners Office as a Data Controller. Since the EU-US Privacy Shield was been declared invalid, we have largely migrated to web services hosted and controlled within the UK and the EU in order to benefit from their strong data protection regulatory regimes.