Energy Saving Measures
Committed to working efficiently
New buildings pose less of an issue to facilitate energy saving measures as we’re able to install solutions at the design stage, however older buildings have required us to go back to basics and be quite innovative to produce environmentally friendly offices.
We’re regularly in contact with our internal staff and clients to encourage them to switch off lights and equipment that is not being used. We’ve also incorporated direct responsibility for a person at each centre to go around their centres to ensure all unnecessary lights, air conditioning and photocopiers, etc, are turned off.
Technology has also had a large part to play in reducing our carbon footprint and making our serviced offices environmentally friendly as possible, with new centres being fitted with passive infrared systems, and building management systems to ensure facilities such as lighting, air conditioning and heating are only used when they are required.
We’ve been working closely with our maintenance service partners and Total Environmental Management (TEM) to ensure we are doing all we can in our centres to save energy and improve our green performance.
As extra sustainable initiatives, MWB also target:
- Sustainable sourcing (Specifying products with recycled or reconditioned content)
- Limiting onsite waste & noise pollution
- Avoid purchasing disposable & unnecessary products
- Avoid excess packaging materials (saving energy and limit waste)
- Emissions & Toxicity (Being aware of product components containing harmful emissions such as volatile organic compounds - VOCs)
- Greener Transport – employing transport organisations to consolidate deliveries