Sustainability
This fragmented approach has meant large estate owners are operating in the dark. They are unable to fully understand the impact of their environmental operations and how they can be improved. Estate owners need to promptly address this data challenge. Without robust, structured, trusted data, none of the key questions can be answered, questions like: Are we enroute to achieving our goals? How is our performance looking when set against our commitments? And what is the impact of our measures to bring about change?
A Roadmap To Sustainability
Today, by implementing proactive measures, organisations can streamline carbon reporting and get one step ahead of their sustainability targets. So where to begin?
The first step is to establish a master data management (MDM) strategy to ensure consistency and eliminate siloes. With accurate and centralised data, estate owners can focus their attention on the highest energy-consuming assets and implement interventions that can make the most difference in reducing consumption.
An MDM strategy ensures the uniformity, accuracy, stewardship, semantic consistency and accountability of an organisation’s master data. It involves de-duplicating, reconciling and enriching the data to create a consistent, reliable and authoritative source of truth. In short, it provides the foundation which will ensure that everyone is speaking the same language.
However, an organisation’s carbon footprint extends beyond its own operations. Owner-operators should also set clear data governance standards for all suppliers to follow. With the necessary layers of data in place, key decisions can be made with regard to the 6 R’s of the circular economy (reduce, re-use, recycle, refuse, re-think and repair).
With an MDM strategy, organisations can start to consider the potential for new technologies, like digital twins, to help their efforts by providing enhanced insights powered by actual performance data.
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Building A Sustainable Future
Better performance and increased resilience of existing assets will enable large estate owners to meet their sustainability targets while aiding the wider drive towards the UK’s net zero goals. And the time to do this is fast reducing. We must not forget too that our built environment is interconnected and interdependent. As a sector, we need shared conversations about the collective impact of measures that we introduce across all facets of our built infrastructure environments.
As Mike Berners-Lee, a leading climate change academic, puts it, these years, are, for our planet the “make or break years”3
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1:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/631222898fa8f54234 c6a508/20220901-Carbon-Net-Zero-Guidance-Note.pdf 2:
https://manifeste.pour-un-reveil-ecologique.org/en
3:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/there-is-no-planet-b/ 1C152963CE739459C346D76B439A0272
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