Low Carbon Awards The Interview
Energy efficiency
> And that’s exactly what he and his current colleagues of the posters [from the 2006 CIBSE campaign] to some
improvements to TfL’s
have done at Transport for London (TfL), the body that of our environmental champions.”
offices at 25 Eccleston
oversees public transport in the capital. Babcock is an These champions have been recruited by Babcock to
Place helped it to win
two CIBSE awards
environmental manager within the TfL sustainable be in the front line of trying to persuade TfL staff to
buildings team, which has taken control of the facilities conserve energy. The champions are made up of around
management budgets for 25 out of 50 head office 200 volunteers as part of the aim of getting “a champion
‘buildings’ that house 12,000 staff in central London. on every floor”, as Babcock puts it. But don’t these do-
Getting people
All 25 have a Display Energy Certificate (DEC), and the gooders get up the noses of their colleagues?
team is now working with landlords to produce DECs “Getting people to switch off their PCs is a challenge,”
to switch off
for some of the remaining 25, which include not only Babcock retorts. “So you have to provide some tools [to
their PCs is
buildings but newspaper stands, car parks, mini-offices the champions] to demonstrate the benefits to staff. For
a challenge.
and areas of TfL-owned land. example, we created a calculator tool to work out how
Babcock has had what is perhaps one of the most many slices of toast could be made from the energy
We created a
challenging tasks when it comes to making office buildings saved in turning off office PCs at night.
calculator tool
more energy efficient – persuading the workforce to make “This year we’re working on developing some training
to work out how
it happen. As he puts it: “Your core role is ensuring that for the volunteers about engaging with colleagues. We
the occupants of the buildings are comfortable, in the most want to help our champions develop the confidence to
many slices of
energy-efficient manner possible.” go out and persuade their colleagues that they can ‘save’
toast could be
While the sustainable buildings team as a whole has slices of toast and cups of tea.”
made from the
been working on increasing energy efficiency to meet The information tools now at the champions’ disposal
the Mayor of London’s target of a 60 per cent cut in also include monthly data posted on the TfL intranet
energy saved in
carbon emissions by 2025, Babcock’s role has focused showing, in simple terms, how much equipment is
turning off office
on trying to change TfL staff’s behaviour. And, in 2006, being left on at night as well as out-of-hours energy
PCs at night
when he started his current job, the CIBSE 100 Days consumption savings. More than 90 separate office
campaign for cutting energy usage in offices was a floors have been ranked against each other, prompting
significant help to him, he says. “We still send out some occupants to compete for higher league table positions. >
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