British Land

Corporate Responsibility autumn 2009


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Green Head Office

Cut annual energy use by 42,500 kWh*
Save up to £4,250 each year*

*Estimated savings based on activating all of the power saving features on 200 desktop computers, with average savings over the next five years calculated at £0.10 per kWh.

 

We have installed power saving software on all Head Office computers and introduced a new food composting scheme.

carbonwiseCarbonWise software monitors power usage and enables more power saving features. Activating all of the power saving features would cut carbon emissions by 91 tonnes over the next five years.

By monitoring where we are wasting power and adjusting the shut down and start up time for each individual’s computer we will be able to continue refining our system until we reach the optimum configuration.

“CarbonWise is an easily configurable tool which allows us to reduce the power consumed by our computers. It should significantly contribute to our aim of reducing Head Office electricity use by 5% per person.”

- Head of Information Systems at British Land, Ian Davies
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Composting food waste

We have also started a food composting scheme that is open to all occupiers at our Head Office. We encourage staff to dispose of any food waste in our new composting bins, including cooked food and tea bags. This waste is then turned into high quality compost which is used for agriculture in Kent. All of our Head Office waste is now successfully diverted from landfill through a combination of recycling, composting and incineration.

Working together

Living Green Live supplied the power saving software and Juniper is running our food composting scheme in partnership with our waste contractor, Capital Waste.

Juniper runs our food composting scheme at York House