Consulting-Specifying Engineer - January 2009 - (Page 37) »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» 41 42 43 Use PDFs for final products of service. fact. Starting with turning off the lights when they are not needed is so obvious it hurts. Bisel is senior vice president with WSP Flack+Kurtz. He is recognized as an industry leader in sustainable design. Require all outside information to be provided in searchable digital format. Make carbon a “reimbursable expense” to clients. Encourage staff to gauge environmental impacts Advise staff to act as agents of change, even when they are outside of the workplace. 44 45 Provide information to all staff members to encourage them to facilitate improvements in their personal lives. Develop analysis and educational resources for employees to assess their individual carbon footprint. 46 47 Sponsor a staff “competition” for overall carbon use or home energy performance (a sort of limbo contest). Look everywhere Go beyond your operational sphere: An example is daily employee transportation energy use to and from the office. Transportation energy is a significantly larger energy use than energy use in buildings. 48 49 Always question performance claims: Many claims are made as to being “green” or “sustainable,” and at face value this is positive. However, these claims often are hollow and sometimes misleading. The overuse of these two words has made them rather trivial and meaningless. Turn off the !@$%* lights: It sounds trivial and perhaps petty, but we need to make environmental performance an everyday matter of Input #219 at csemag.com/quickResponse 50 Consulting-Specifying Engineer • JANUARY 2009 37 http://www.uecorp.com http://www.uecorp.com http://www.csemag.com/quickResponse
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