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Carbon Reduction
Sustainable Products
Good Procurement Practice:
- Knowledge of the Supply base is critical in ensuring that sustainable materials are procured.
- Supplier qualifications and appraisals are obtained prior to inclusion on approved lists.
- Local Suppliers given preference assuming environmental considerations are met.
- Meetings with Suppliers to verify claims.
- Performance Monitoring.
- Assessment of past performance in awarding contracts.
Sustainable Services
We recognise the need for Sustainable Services and Renewables and our professional team are fully conversant with modern approaches such as:
- Ground Source Heat Pumps.
- Air Source Heating/ Cooling.
- Photovoltaic Systems.
- Wind Turbines.
- Rainwater Harvesting.
- Biomass Heating.
Evaluation of Sustainable Services
At design stage our team can assist in evaluating the potential inclusion of renewable energy technology taking into account the following:
- Orientation and siting for ‘passive’ solutions.
- Capital/ lifetime cost of technology or product.
- Impact on running costs for the project.
- Availability of resources to run equipment.
- Size and nature of products.
- Health and Safety risks to site.
- Impact on the surrounding area.
- Flexibility for incorporating future technologies.
Transport Policy
We are situated within 10 miles of the site.
- All of our employees are from the Mansfield / Sutton-In-Ashfield area.
- Our operatives travel together from our Head Office to the site in our multi-use vehicles.
- We will make a commitment that all of our sub-contractors and suppliers (unless specialist) would be sourced from within a maximum 10 mile radius of the site.
Examples of Environmentally Efficient Products
- Energy efficient lighting and lamps.
- Automatic controls on lighting systems.
- Electrical systems clock controls.
- Efficient ventilation controls.
- Sub-metering to monitor service output levels.
- Thermally efficient insulation, ceiling and plaster products.
- Sustainably sourced general building materials and timber