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AsaSameDayCouriernetwork,CitySprint important/important”thattheircourierservice
realisesthatitsbusinesshasanimpactonthe providerhasarangeofenvironmentaloptions
Commitment
environmentandinrecognitionofthis available.
implementedacomprehensiveandaward- CitySprint’senvironmentalprogramme
with Hybrid Car
winningenvironmentalprogramme.However, encompassesallareasofthebusiness.Rather
CitySprinthastakenitsenvironmental thansimplyoptingtobecome‘carbonneutral’
Fleet Purchase
programmeonestepfurtherandnowoffersits CitySprinthasspentagreatdealoftimeand
customersacrosstheUKtheopportunityto investmentdevelopingaseriesofexternal
assessandreducetheircarbonfootprintaswell. environmentaloptionswhichenableits
Yorkshire based company Lexia Today,businesses,smallandlarge,aretaking customerstoworkinpartnershipwiththem.
Solutions Group, the leading supplier of farmoreinterestintheenvironmentalimpactof CitySprint’sexternalenvironmentalprogramme
quality environmental related services, theservicestheyacquireandarefarmore hasbeendesignedtogivecustomersachoice
has bought 16 Honda hybrid vehicles as conscientiousintheirselectionofcourierservice whilsthelpingthemachievetheirown
part of the company’s corporate providers.Thiswasreflectedinarecent environmentalobjectives.
commitment to lower greenhouse gas customersurveywhereCitySprintfoundthat www.citysprint.co.uk.
emissions by 39% over the next year. 66%ofitscustomersfeelthatitis“very
The company is integrating Honda
hybrid vehicles into its fleets across the
group as part of an ongoing policy to
seek ways of reducing the company’s Water-Efficient Facelift
carbon footprint. Sixteen staff will have
hybrid cars in the first phase, but Lexia Armitage Shanks launch an exciting efficiency, and help
plans to increase this to all staff vehicles array of sophisticated and innovative achieve BREEAM
over the next year. At the company’s products that will provide specifiers with compliance.
Life Environmental Services division, the tools and products they need to create Almost 33% of
Lexia is now only offering hybrid cars to water efficient washrooms for the 21st the water used in a
its new starters and will even replace Century. The modern washroom is not a typical washroom comes out of taps
diesel vans with the Civic Hybrid. place for endlessly running taps, and mixers, and so Armitage has
Lexia’s purchase of hybrid cars is part overflowing basins and the 7 gallon flush, taken great care to ensure that their new
of the company’s commitment to and it is estimated that most UK buildings range features taps which regulate flow
corporate social responsibility. Added can reduce their water consumption and and cut down on wastage. Many taps in
Richard Collins, Lexia Commercial bills by 30 - 50% through choosing water- the range feature innovative CLICK
Director: ìThis is the kind of leadership efficient taps and toilets. cartridge technology, which reduces flow
activity that many companies should An efficient WC can reduce the water by 50% and can save up to 5,000 litres of
consider. The Honda hybrid emits about flushed each day by 50%. Contour Twenty- water per year. The push-button brassware
two thirds of the CO2 of a 1.6 litre Focus One includes WC’s with a smaller 4.5 litre in the range shuts off the flow after a
and therefore has environmental single flush, and dual-flush cisterns that pre-set period of time, whilst Sensorflow
benefits, as well as offering a come with 2 buttons, the smaller of which taps have a remote sensor which detects a
considerably cheaper company car tax delivers a 4 litre flush and the larger a user’s presence.
bill.” 6 litre flush. Smaller flush levels prove www.armitage-shanks.co.uk
hugely beneficial to a building’s water
WiseCouncil
performance. Keim Mineral Paints were as a result reduces the buildings energy
chosen to meet these criteria as the finish requirement.
for the exposed concrete frame of the Ecosil is a mineral paint comprising a
The new administrative centre for the building. Keim Ecosil has been used on potassium silicate binder with mineral
City of Edinburgh Council has been around 15,000m
2
of internal concrete to fillers and inorganic earth oxide colour
designed by Architects Building Design provide a sustainable solution and a longlife pigments. When applied to a mineral
Partnership’s Glasgow office as a landmark finish with whole life costing benefits substrate, the binder soaks into it and
building in the Waverley Valley, which is whilst meeting the aesthetic requirements forms a microcrystalline bond which
considered to be of fundamental of the brief. maintain vapour permeability but prevents
importance to Edinburgh’s economic Ecosil is waterborne completely solvent the ingress of driven rain.
development objectives. and VOC free, resistant to mould and www.keimpaints.co.uk
A key objective in the design is to algae, gives off no fumes during or after
demonstrate environmental excellence and applications. In manufacture, Ecosil
sustainability and the building has achieved consumes less energy, produces less
a BREEAM environmental assessment emissions, produces less waste water and
award rating of ‘Very Good’. The choice of less waste than conventional dispersion
materials in all aspects of the building has paints. It is breathable allowing water
been based on environmental vapour to pass from the substrate and
considerations coupled with functional gradually reduces moisture content which
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