Journey to Sustainability
The journey to greater environmental sustainability is different for all organisations
As your business is unique, so will be your approach to business sustainability management. Like many journeys it’s not a straight line from point A to B but will ultimately lead you to it being in the core of your business thinking and provide a competitive advantage.
The journey to sustainability is not one of static goals or targets but a reflection of progress and external context. This can be recorded, monitored and updated within an environmental management system.
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Initiating the process
- Identify your current sustainability status by creating an environmental management system
- Set your objectives for sustainability
- Determine your organisation's limits for carbon measurement
- Examine your mechanical, electrical, and plumbing infrastructures and their controls
- Assess the present monitoring points for utility usage
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Assess the current state
- Conduct initial year carbon measurement
- Aid in implementing brief term auxiliary building energy management system oversight
- Offer suggestions for additional data points to enhance utility usage monitoring and evaluation
- Thermographic inspections
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Quick wins
- Provide structure for ongoing Carbon Quantification
- Assist in delivering long term Utility Utilisation monitoring with tapered support to the client
- Formulate a description of operation for building energy management system to provide operational efficiencies with current mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems
- Develop a framework for product life cycle analysis
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Mid-term framework
- Recommend areas where greatest efficiencies can be made within the subsequent 3-5 years
- Provide a framework to assess which mechanical, electrical and plumbing system enhancements would provide the greatest Utility Utilisation
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Long-term sustainability
- Provide a framework to evaluate the organisation’s ongoing journey to sustainability
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