Free Energy Performance Auditing!

For your Business

Faced with increased fuel cost and degradation due to climate change, every local authority faces the dilemma of finding the balance between economic development and environmental conservation.  With this concern, we have been very proactive in working with Carbon Trust, DLA, DCMS, Chanber of Commerce and European and United Kingdom partners to inspire SMEs' interests in innovation, intelligence and investment.

From Nov 2008 to 2011 LEEFF will work together with the London Development Agency (LDA) on the ECO-VATE project to assist Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) within the M25.

Support from Eco-Vate Project

The aim of the Eco-Vate project is to raise levels of awarenesss amongst SMEs of the environmental impacts of their activities, indentify individual organisation opportunities for positive change and support businesses to incorporate environmental innovation improvements, resulting in both positive environmental and financial impacts.  Our advisors will undertake a baseline environmental innovation audit in relation to energy, waste, water and overall materials use, resulting in an easily understood report containing improvement opportunities.  This is 5 days fre assistance and can include: Heating, Insultation, Lighting, Ventilation and Air Conditioning.  As well as assistance on innovative technology fr triple phase manufacturing machinery.

Our targets group will the SMEs who have more than 5 employees and BME, Women and Disabled are priorities; a wide range of sectors are covered.  Support is listed as follows.

1	SMEs supported to achieve improvement in environmental performance. Annual Waste diverted from landfill Annual water saving (resource reduction) Annual Materials saving (resource reduction) Annual CO2 savings (resource reduction) Annual cost savings resulting from improved environmental management and performance Achieving a Bronze award in the Mayor's green procurement code An active environmental policy and/or using the ENWORKS reporting tool Supported in gaining independent accreditation for environmental management (e.e. BS8555, ISO 14001, etc.)
2	No. of businesses integrating new products, processes or services
3	New Sales
4	Gross new jobs created

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