Our Environmental Commitment

OUR ENVIRONMENTAL COMMITMENT

Ethical and environmental responsibility is at the heart of what we do at Footprint Building. We are committed to the following principles:

We reduce our environmental impact

This means that we:

• Use green energy suppliers in our office and joinery workshop
• Recycle and reuse office and joinery waste
• Recycle and reuse building site waste
• Monitor and reduce energy use at our office and joinery
• Measure and mitigate the carbon impact of our projects
• Reduce our dependency on fossil fuels by using electric vans
• Reduce our use of toxic products
• Reduce our use of non-sustainable products
• Research our suppliers and their environmental commitment

We operate in an ethical manner

This means that we:

• Respect company neighbours and our customers’ neighbours
• Treat our staff fairly and ethically and ensure our staff treat others in the same way
• Maintain transparent business practices
• Commit to ethical marketing practices

Practise and communicate new developments in building, eco-building and health and safety

This means that we:

• Attend courses to ensure we keep up-to-date with the latest innovations
• Are engaged with the ecological movement, building contacts and relationships with likeminded individuals and companies
• Maintain membership of relevant professional organisations

Continuous Improvement

We review our progress against these standards every year to make sure we deliver on our promises and continue to improve our performance.