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Water Management
Water means life. It’s one of the cornerstones of environmental protection in Europe and a key area of focus for us in Lend Lease.
Contents
- What We've Been Doing
- What's Next
- Case Study: Reducing Water Usage at our Retail Assets Under Management
- Appendices
What We've Been Doing
In 2009-10 we set ourselves a target to reduce water consumption at our occupied offices and assets under management (landlord areas only) in the UK by 10 per cent against the previous year. We achieved 9.6 per cent.
Total water consumption (m3) for our occupied offices and retail assets under management for FY 2007-08, FY 2008-09 and FY 2009-10
*Full chart only available in Flash web site
EN8 Total water withdrawal by source
In the UK our project management and construction business has worked over the last financial year to report water consumption at construction sites and has made water a key area of focus. In financial year 2009-10 water consumption at 85 per cent of our construction sites equalled 868,015m3. The data collected for this financial year will be used as a baseline for future targets, monitoring and reductions in consumption.
Offices
- We carried out water audits at our UK offices. At our regional headquarters we retro-fitted urinals to save water.
Assets under management
- We obtain good data on water consumed during the operation of our assets through regular reporting. We did a water fixture and fitting audit at all the centres to understand the consumption of water for each fixture and fitting. We measure individual fixtures and fittings against best practice and upgrade them if needed. We recorded a reduction of -5.66 per cent across our portfolio. That’s 13 million litres of potable water.
Developments and construction sites
- We calculated the baseline water consumption in our construction and project management business in the UK and used this information to set a target of reducing water consumption by 20 per cent by 2013.
What's Next
During 2010-11 we will launch our water management strategy which will give us a consistent approach to how we manage water and help us meet our goals.
Offices
- At our new regional headquarters we will be working closely with the landlord to introduce water measuring devices allowing us to measure actual consumption and also increase the water efficiency by retrofitting fixtures if required.
- In CEMEA we are recording water use at our offices and will set a target for water consumption over the next financial year.
Assets under management
- Reporting of total water (landlord plus tenant water) is available at three of our retail centres. We will work with the remaining centre to find out the total consumption, allowing us - with our tenants - to reduce total water consumption.
Developments and construction sites
- One of our sustainability team has become our water champion. He/she will lead the business to develop best practice and help us to meet our water consumption target.
Case Study: Reducing water usage at our retail assets under management
Building on the progress made during the last financial year in managing water use at our retail assets under management, further reductions have been made after rolling out a more comprehensive upgrade programme.
We’ve carried out fixtures and fittings audits to make sure our water systems are working as efficiently as possible. A number of our retail assets under management have installed new equipment to further improve water reductions.
Last year we reported that Overgate had installed waterless urinals and after their success Bluewater undertook a trial of the same equipment. So we could understand the saving that installing these urinals would have on water consumption, ‘flush loggers’ were installed for a two-week period to measure the number of times a cistern was flushed. The results of the analysis showed that each urinal uses an average of approximately 108,000 litres a year - a significant amount when you consider Bluewater has 97 urinals.
Converting to waterless urinals has saved about 12,000 litres of water – about five Olympic-sized swimming pools.
We’ve had similar successes at our other retail assets under management after sharing this best practice across the portfolio.
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