SUSTAINABILITY
We are accredited to ISO 14001:2015 and realise the importance of sustainability, we’re committed to the promotion of best practice principles in this regard. The process we would adopt at the design and construction stages would be to look at the full scheme and its requirements with the following in mind and in practice.
Energy Efficiency
We use manufacturing processes and produce products which require less energy.
Quality and Durability
Longer-lasting and better-functioning products will have to be replaced less frequently, reducing the impacts of producing the replacements and future installation cost.
Design for Re-use and Recycling
Products, processes, and systems should be designed for performance in a commercial ‘afterlife’.
Energy
Both in production, and in use and disposal. This includes minimising energy use, moving to the use of renewable energy, and extracting energy from waste in some cases.
Life Extension
Keeping a product, or its parts or materials, in productive use for their optimal lifespan, so slowing or preventing the linear flow of materials from extraction and processing to disposal.
Fuel Usage
We encourage the leasing of fuel-efficient vehicles, which will help to reduce both CO2 and Nitrogen Oxide. We promote, wherever possible, the philosophy of car sharing. This system is used by the office staff when visiting sites.
Carbon Footprint
To further reduce our impact on the environment, will source local suppliers and sub-contractors wherever possible.
Energy Management
We encourage all our staff to adopt eco-friendly practices, such as switching off unused lights and electrical equipment. Employees are encouraged not to print out documents unless necessary, default printers to black and white and print both side of the paper if they do but to use e-mail as a preferred option of communication. All wastepaper is collected in designated recycling bins which are in every office.
Waste Management
To help achieve our environmental targets, we have adopted the waste hierarchy in all operations and push, when possible, for waste prevention. Where this is found to be not feasible, we will aim to minimise, reduce, and recycle our waste. Construction waste materials are sorted for recycling, where there is no capacity for separate waste disposal skips, the waste will be sorted for recycling by the Waste Disposal Company. We only use Waste companies who have recycling facilities.
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