Sustainability and Environmental Impact Award

Award winner - Modus Services Limited

The P10 project was the result of the Prime Ministers commitment to reduce CO2e emissions from the Central Government estate by 10% in one year (May 09- May10). For MOD Main Building (MB) in Whitehall, this equated to 10% of 14,122 tonnes of CO2e. Just to make this simpler, the target area was limited to energy consumption only.

As a PFI scheme with a further 19 years to run, Modus developed an innovative structured approach to the whole process, whether this was the funding mechanism (Gainshare), the approval process, or the vision for the next opportunities.

The judges felt that they had achieved good progress within a very “traditional” environment and that it was a greater challenge for them to achieve a cultural shift in the user base. They have also engaged the wider community in sharing their experiences and had promoted the partnership in the educational sector to promote learning within the industry. This has led to a potential generational shift in how we deliver sustainable facilities through the interlinkage between FM teams, Sustainability professionals, Universities and Investors. The judges felt that overall Modus covered virtually all the bases in terms of promoting and achieving in the sustainability arena.

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

Judging team

• Lead Judge – Sunil Shah (DPP LLP)
• Support Team – Kevin Keil (Mace Macro), Alison Coote (Sodexo), George Hunter (Modus Services), Anne Lennox-Martin (FM Consultant & Trainer), Tom Riggs, Roy Stark, Stuart Harris (Worley Parsons)

Sponsor: Babcock

Website link www.babcock.co.uk