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Amadeus trials carbon labelling at NEC Group venues

The live events caterer has introduced carbon labelling at NEC Group venues, in a partnership with food technology and sustainability specialists Foodsteps. The trial is assessing the carbon impacts of 1,800 recipes sold at the NEC and ICC, labelling dishes ...

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Kimpton appointed to help reduce carbon emissions at London’s Tower Hotel

HVAC specialist Kimpton has been appointed to reduce carbon impact and improve efficiency of the heating and water systems at the iconic 801-bedroom Tower Hotel in London. Having expanded nationally, and after almost 60 years in business, experts in this ...

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UKGBC study finds circular practices can make significant carbon savings across building lifecycles

The UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) has published new insight into the positive impact circular thinking can have in delivering whole life carbon reductions and value creation across construction projects. The study, ‘How Circular Economy Principles can impact carbon and ...

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Material Change

Andrew Jackson, Business Development Director EMEA, Shaw Contract on procuring flooring products and materials that contribute to a Circular Economy approach. If we are to limit global warming to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius in accordance with the Paris ...

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The White Company parters with Cloudfm to reduce carbon emissions

The White Company has awarded Cloudfm a three-year contract to manage its 67 sites across the UK and Ireland. The deal will see Cloudfm provide proactive and reactive maintenance with its innovative approach to reducing carbon emissions. Cloudfm’s technology-driven approach ...

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Magenta Security achieves Carbon Zero status ahead of schedule

Magenta Security has been certified as achieving Carbon Zero status, without the need to offset, during a Carbon Footprint Assessment. The Magenta Security team set itself a goal to be Carbon Zero, without offsetting, by 2025. However, this month’s carbon ...

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FMs have opportunity to take part in next stage of SFMI Scope 3 research

In June 2022, The Sustainable Facilities Management Index (SFMI), in partnership with BAM FM, released a standard to calculate Scope 3 carbon emissions for the facilities management sector – “Setting the foundations for net zero”. The vision aims to create ...

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Going waterless could cut facilities management sector urinal running costs by more than half at the same time as slashing CO2

Facilities managers and businesses could slash CO2 footprints and save over £1,200 on every three urinals on their books, if they switched to waterless technology. The findings were released by Smarti Environmental, the UK’s leading waterless urinal business, to coincide ...

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Is it time to ditch the work phone? Second handsets produce 776k tons of CO2e per year

UK businesses could reduce their carbon footprint by over 776,000 tons per year, by making one simple change to their comms policy, finds new research carried out by YourBusinessNumber. It’s estimated that 38 per cent of UK workers are provided ...

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Ecoserv supporting sustainability within the film and TV industry

Ecoserv Group has become an approved sustainable supplier to the film and TV industry. The multi-discipline facilities management company has joined forces with albert, an industry-funded organisation tasked with reducing the environmental impact of production, to help accelerate change and ...

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