EALA Impacts provide Building Condition (survey/holistic), Architectural (design/strategic) & Construction (procurement/long-term) services.
EALA is a not-for-profit social enterprise, constituted as a community interest company. We seek to align all we do with the shift needed to make our world sustainable in all ways – socially, environmentally, and financially.
EALA exists to develop a framework of knowledge and good practice to enable everyone involved in the management of the built environment to positively impact communities and the natural world.
EALA (ˈalˠə) is Scottish Gaelic for ‘swan’. John Elkington defines the concept of a Green Swan as:
“a profound market shift, generally catalysed by some combination of Black or Grey Swan challenges and changing paradigms, values, mindsets, politics, policies, technologies, business models, and other key factors. A Green Swan delivers exponential progress in the form of economic, social, and environmental wealth creation. At worst, it achieves this outcome in two dimensions while holding the third steady. There may be a period of adjustment where one or more dimensions underperform, but the aim is an integrated breakthrough in all three dimensions.”
EALA Impacts exists to support this shift in Scotland and the wider UK.
Our Values are:
We are impact driven
All of our work is measured against a triple bottom line: people, planet, and profit. This is how we define true impact.
We are humble & open collaborators
We don’t have all the answers, and we know that to make a real impact everyone needs to be involved. We will reach out to work with other professionals and will share openly what we have in order to help them towards our shared goal.
We are framework makers
We are not satisfied with ‘doing our part’. We want to help others do theirs too. To that end, we will join the dots, create frameworks, build tools, and make them available so that others can join in the mission.
We are professionally excellent
We are committed to a high degree of professional quality. This is achieved both by sharing and combining expertise as well as being rigorous in our work.
We are creative optimists
We are determined to forge new paths for others to follow. In order to do so, we will apply optimism to our challenges, and creativity to our solutions. We will meet every challenge with hope and the question ‘How can we get where we need to go?’
