Sustainability and Environmental Impact

About this award - entries CLOSED

The Sustainability and Environmental Impact award rewards the outstanding ongoing delivery of sustainable and environmental initiatives.

Submitting your entry

Entrants must first define what ‘sustainability’ means to their organisation and their FM team. The judges expect to see evidence of the practical implementation of socially, environmentally and economically sustainable FM practices. Entrants must explain the nature of their sustainability initiative and its rationale, and how it is applied to a specific project, demonstrating how best practice is used in the parent or host business. The means of measuring performance and value is down to the entrant, but they must use methodology based upon environmental, economic and social principles.

Judging criteria

Entrants must present their completed submission via email in the order that addresses the following judging criteria.

1. What ‘sustainability’ means to the parent/host organisation.
2. How sustainability has been defined for the FM team and the programme developed to implement change.
3. Baseline information capturing the environmental, social and economic aspects of the initiative.
4. Operational performance set against the baseline.
5. The benefits achieved both for the FM team and the wider business and community.
6. How the entrants have promoted, or intend to promote, the learning and experience achieved through delivering sustainability initiative(s).
7. Examples of where sustainability has been successfully integrated into routine business practices.

Previous winners

• 2011 winner: Modus Services; see winning case study here
• 2010 winner: GSK and Johnson Controls
• 2009 winner: thecentre:mk

Want to enter?

Have any questions or queries?

If you have any questions or queries on this category then please email awards@bifm.org.uk or call 0141 639 0708. 

Closing date for entries: 4 May 2012