Involve your employees

‘67% of employees want to help their company reduce carbon emissions but do not know how’ (Carbon Trust Survey). Consider empowering your staff to help reduce energy consumption. This can be in the form of training courses, posters, email bulletins or other communications. Furthermore, ask your employees what they would like to see from the fit-out. Not only will this foster an inclusive culture but you will gain valuable feedback.

Keeping staff motivated and encouraging them to help implement energy saving measures will help keep energy wastage down. Promote recycling and energy saving through awareness campaigns such as posters, green bulletins, bin labelling and environment competitions.

Carry out a staff survey as part of your design process, this will help understand what your employees want from the fit out, gain valuable insight into how they feel about the ‘office space’ that they work in, and it will give you their buy in when implementing energy efficiency programmes.