the growth of the sustainability agenda and the role of facilities management
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FM’s role in the growing
sustainability agendaNeil Everitt
Business Development
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Introduction
• Sustainability and FM• The BIFM Sustainability Survey
started in 2007 and is now in its eighth year.
• Providing insight into how members of the FM profession perceive the implementation of sustainability within their organisations.
• Eight year timeframe provides opportunity to see trends, understand where progress is taking place, as well as to make projections into the future of the sector.
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How important is sustainability?
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How well are we doing it?
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The drivers
>For the wrong reasons?
>78% state corporate image
>77% point to increased legislation
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The drivers
>Regulatory standard
>Investment and shareholder perspective
>A competitive element to demonstrate effectiveness against peers.
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What’s driving the agenda?
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Managing risk?
> Energy efficiency, water consumption and waste generation.
> Can FMs play a crucial role in providing evidence base for decision making? Understanding regulation, financial impacts and operational efficiencies?
> How far do we take that?
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Is it rattling down the chain?
> The majority of respondents manage their suppliers’ carbon footprint, but 22.5% admit there is no management at all.
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Is it rattling down the chain?
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What’s holding us back?
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Conclusions
> FMs must change the way they talk about sustainability. They should adopt a forward looking and risk based approach in order to articulate potential impacts and ramifications of decisions that are made.
> FMs must follow a standardised approach to data collection and develop a solid evidence base that is robust in terms of granularity and accuracy.
> Communication and engagement with suppliers, staff and senior management is often poor, and must be further developed and tailored.
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What does 2015 hold?
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Neil EverittBusiness Development
[email protected]@BIFM_Neil