A new generation of resorts that give more than they take, and leave a mark that outlasts the holiday.
The holiday of the future goes beyond low-impact, toward a place that actively heals.
We increasingly seek meaningful, inspiring experiences: time in nature, real culture, room to grow and play. A regenerative resort uses best-in-class sustainability to elevate those experiences, and to give sustainability a personal meaning that visitors carry home, far beyond the duration of their stay.
We co-create next-generation resorts and holiday destinations with organizations that want to lead, supported with deep analysis, smart business modeling, innovative design, master-planning, and efficient management.
Embed ecosystem services deep into the place, and you can grow healthy food beside the dinner table, swim in water cleaned by reeds, and live, briefly, inside a better future.
A stay at a ReGen Resort shows how deeply systemic, sustainable living feels relaxing and pleasurable, for now and the long term. Lasting impressions turn visitors into lifelong advocates.
Integrated concepts deliver more than the sum of their parts. Smart technology works hand in hand with lush nature, culture, and program.
Energy-positive systems, embedded solar, earth heat and cooling.
Rainwater capture, constructed wetlands, natural filtration.
Circular, non-toxic materials and food grown on site.
Bioclimatic design that leaves the land richer than before.
Experiences and serious-game systems that change daily life.
Integrated business models that protect long-term value.
Biodiversity boosters and restored ecosystem services.
Choose your performance level, up to complete self-reliance.
Except's SiD process combines analysis, strategy, design, and sustainability science in one co-creation. It treats a resort as a living system, energy, water, materials, ecosystems, species, economy, culture, and human happiness, designed to reinforce each other.
Visible bio-organic innovation brings health, relaxing atmospheres, delicious food, learning, and play. Guests don't just read about sustainability, they taste it at dinner, swim in it, and walk through it.
Since 1999, Except has applied its integrated approach to more than 500 projects worldwide. A few cases highlighted.
A self-sustaining neighborhood: closed-loop water, power, food, and waste, with permaculture, agroforestry, and vertical farming.
A self-reliant eco-park on a heritage site from 1527: on-site dairy, cheese, bread, and vegetables, woven into energy and waste systems.
The world's largest rooftop park, with Pelli Clarke Pelli: water purification, air filtration, and new ecosystem services above a transit hub.
We can support a single stage, or run the whole development from A to Z.
Explore the site, boundary conditions, stakeholders, and performance and financial targets.
An in-depth SiD scan to surface unique possibilities and smart ways to manage risk.
A custom concept plan with a business model, audience, program, and spatial planning.
Integrated bioclimatic design that harnesses solar, wind, and biological cycles.
Execution planning, local contractors, and guidance to completion and quality.
Once operational, we track performance and tune the resort to its optimum.
"Except has excellent knowledge, resources, and work ethic. They provided realistic options for significant sustainability improvements with innovative solutions. It couldn't have been better." Greg Powell · CEO, Shire of Merredin, Western Australia
Let's build a resort that gives back.
New build or refurbishment, anywhere in the world. Tell us about your site and ambition.
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