Environment
Festival Place Targets for 2010
In 2009 Festival Place reduced CO² emissions to our atmosphere by over 1,200 tonnes. We did this by reviewing how energy was consumed and continuing with reduction of waste going to landfill. However, it is important now that we don’t just sit back in 2010 and pat ourselves on the back for achieving so much in 2009, there is more we can do. We will explore other initiatives to reduce CO² emissions by reducing the amount of energy we use and further reduce our waste going to landfill. This year we aim to reduce:-
Gas by 2% by maintaining mall temperatures at 16ºC, not keeping mall doors open during cold weather when unnecessary and only turning on office heating when it is required.
Electricity by a further 5% by changing more of the old light bulbs with energy efficient bulbs and install more microwave sensor fittings to more of our back of house areas which dim down during periods of non occupancy. Focus our attention to reduce energy of air-handling units by placing CO² monitors in the mall areas which register when air-handling units should be open and investigate the viability of installing alternative energy systems.
Water by a further 3% by increasing the amount of water we currently harvest, installing waterless urinals and improve staff and customer awareness to reduce water. We will investigate the cost effectiveness of installing toilet low-flush systems and metered supplies to improve monitoring and thus make improvements to the ways we use water.
Waste going to landfill by a further 46%. We know this is a tall order, but we have explored whether our waste can be turned into energy and the good news is that it looks likely we can go ahead. In addition we will continue to improve our sorting techniques of waste to increase our recyclable materials.
We will also:-
- share our goals and objectives with our contractors and suppliers and work with them to use products from sustainable sources and to work in a way that has a lesser impact on the environment,
- maintain our environmental standard ‘ISO14001’,
- communicate our goals with staff, retailers and visitors,
- encourage ideas from staff, contractors, suppliers and partners,
- monitor energy and water meter readings and investigate any fluctuations,
- minimise paper usage to circulate environmental, health and safety information by using the Festival Place web site that tenants, contractors and suppliers can access and in return encourage confirmation of receipt by email.
Centre Director, Steven Connolly said; “It goes without saying that the successes of 2009 was only achieved by having a dedicated team whose ideas, research into systems and working very hard to reach targets has been exemplary”.
Festival Place is owned by Grosvenor and managed on their behalf by Jones Lang LaSalle. Please see their Environmental Policies below
Grosvenor Environmental Policy 2007 version.pdf
