076 SUSTAINABILITY
‘The importance of the COP26 summit increases with every new report of wildfires, continued droughts and ice sheets melting, and this may be the last opportunity for a global response to be formulated and acted upon.’
Above Maggie’s cancer care centre in Southampton uses natural materials to keep the building close to nature and the surrounding gardens
Right 888 Bolyston in Boston is the city’s most sustainable Class A ofice building and has achieved LEED Platinum certification
We as a company didn’t publish our first sustainability policy until 2007, but since then we’ve had five-year programmes that we have rolled out under our ‘Creating Better Environments’ tagline. Our next five-year plan is to transform our organisation from a linear business model to a circular one, but this isn’t just about the environmental aspects; there is also a real focus on the ‘people pillar’ of sustainability, covering topics such as modern slavery and the SA8000 Social Accountability standard, which looks at the conditions people work in and how they’re treated. It’s important for us to really understand the conditions for workers in our supply chain and this led us to be one of a number of businesses to take up the opportunity to work alongside BRE to help develop its ethical labour sourcing standard BES 6002. Te standard is designed to help organisations discharge its responsibilities in respect of the Modern Slavery Act. My personal view is that going forward – and perhaps in the very long term – I could see all manufacturers evolving into service providers, where instead of just selling a product and moving on to the next sale, they actually take ownership of that product over its entire life-cycle. Tey would care for and maintain it, and then take it back and repurpose it. Te pace of this will
accelerate as we transition from linear to circular business practices.
How has this evolved more recently, and in what ways have the requirements of specifiers also changed over time to see sustainability as standard?
I think to some extent the build schemes are the drivers, especially with the impact that building standards such as WELL, BREEAM, LEED are all having.
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MATTHEW MILLMAN PHOTOGRAPHY
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