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Our Environmental Management System

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As co-owners of Planit, we collective acknowledge our responsibility to promote the health and vitality of our planet and protect its natural resources. We’re working to reduce our footprint and tread increasingly lighter within this world, moving towards net-benefit and more regenerative practice across all aspects of practice.
Naomi Burl

The development of our Environmental Management System supports the achievement of goals in these respects. It aids the planning of actions to address the environmental footprint and realise benefits associated with our business operations.

The Environmental Management System is a live document that covers several areas, including Water, Waste, Energy, Travel and Commuting and our Carbon Reduction Plan, amongst others. Each chapter covers how we monitor each aspect, past usage, current reduction measures, proposed reduction measures and targets we’ve set. It holds us to account and acts as a catalyst for positive action.

Realising change across the practice is enabled by the Environmental Management System Working and Actions Groups. The Working Group incorporates a representative from each of our five studios, to ensure we have the best location-based knowledge, and a comprehensive overview across the practice. To maintain momentum without getting lost in the multitude of targets we set ourselves, the group meets monthly, focussing on one chapter at a time.

One of the main goals emanating from the Environmental Management System is to inform the wider practice. A Carbon Literacy Project training course is being prepared for accreditation, then roll out to all Planit team members. We deliver associated Rise and Shine sessions (weekly cross-practice creative and educational sessions), share informative inserts in our weekly newsletters, and arrange awareness campaigns. Take a look at the posters drawn by one of our talented team, and download them for use in your own workplaces!

Working to achieve our goals involves actions big and small. Recent measures include monthly Walk /Cycle to Work Day, switch down your commute and no waste lunches. We also look forward to sharing details of the natural drainage solutions incorporated at our Gloucestershire studio to reduce overland flow, but also establish new habitats; an example of realising net-positive benefit.

We’re in the process of switching our electrical supplier across all studios to 100% Renewable Energy tariffs, using a company investing in new sources of green renewable energy to shift the needle on REGO certificates. Likewise, until gas is replaced by solar energy in our Manchester studio, we’re looking to switch from 5% to 100% supply from green gas mills.

There’s some way to go to achieve Net-Zero, but incremental changes prompted by the Environmental Management System are moving us in the right direction, with ongoing commitment to enhance standards year on year.

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