HOW DO YOU EAT AN ELEPHANT

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HOW DO YOU EAT AN ELEPHANT?
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WHAT IS SUSTAINABILITY?
Social
Ecology Environment
Too broad to grasp?
Economic
Respect
Waste
For our next tranche of projects
Local
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Getting the right balance
Lets live on this planet as if we intend to
stay here
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Waste In its broadest sense from - reducing
non-renewable energy consumption to building
appropriate buildings that will not become
prematurely obsolete, to reducing packaging of
materials supplied to our sites.
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Local (but not parochial) From creation of
places that improve the productivity and well
being of the people that use them to the use of
local materials and suppliers.
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Respect From the creation of places that
provide a sense of identity for the local
community to ensuring safe working environments
on our construction sites.
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• All talk and little walk
• CSR, Environmental policies, sustainability
  reports, operating and financial reviews
• Show me / prove it KPIs

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• Sustainable developments provide a competitive
  advantage?
• In the mainstream? Where / When / How?
• Not a gas guzzler, but equally not an un-let
  green building.
• Professionals show schizophrenia.
• Construction team willing, but need to be led
• Clients need to set agenda.

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Set the challenge
Raise Awareness

• Whole systems approach.
• Target energy and water used in construction and
  1st year of operation.
• Waste recycling.
• Access audits.
• BREEAM and SPeAR.
• Training and local employment.
• Use DQIs.
• Undertakes POEs.
• Feedback lessons learned.

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HM Treasury

• Recycled 100 year old Grade II listed
  inefficient and unsafe building (with negative
  asset value).
• Doubled occupancy from predevelopment to post
  development in modern working environment.

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• Excellent BREEAM.
• Energy use after HM Treasurys first year of
  occupation half of econ 19 benchmark for
  naturally ventilated corporate building.
• Less than half water consumption.
• AC where needed and measures to reinforce natural
  ventilation.
• Integrated team (PFI integrated team included
  FM, Trades partnered and involved early).
• Access audit at scheme design, completion and
  operational report.

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• DQI assessment.
• POE analysis for HM Treasury.
• Excellent award from WCC Considerate
  Contractors Scheme.
• Local employment initiative.
• 80 of waste recycled.
• 92 CSCS (66 certified, 28 being processed).
• Occupational health screening.

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• Strategic Forum
• Sustainability Forum
• QA