A Shropshire law firm has struck gold again with its commitment to improving environmental performance.
The retained Green Achiever Gold Standard Award status has been issued by E4environment, along with an additional Diamond Banner, in recognition of Lanyon Bowdler Solicitors demonstrating ongoing improvements for the last 10 years.
E4environment is a consultancy working on projects across the UK. The company specialises in providing guidance on environmental issues surrounding the more technically demanding projects in the areas of waste and renewable energy.
Deborah Cairns, Director of E4environment, said: “It’s always rewarding doing a Lanyon Bowdler review as the ambition to continually improve environmental performance is clear.
“I have granted retained Green Achiever Gold Standard Award status in recognition of legal compliance being maintained, the many examples of current good environmental practice, improvements made during the last 12 months and the ambition to improve further going forwards.
“Yet again Lanyon Bowdler has continued on the path of achieving improvements in environmental performance by making long-term investments in building works and software packages which enables the team to work more efficiently and effectively for clients, whilst consuming fewer raw materials.
“They have altered operational procedures to drive financial savings which align with increasing environmental behaviours through a new travel and expenses policy, and retain the investments in staff training to ensure the culture remains one of awareness and support for the CSR aims.
“In recognition of 10 years of continuous improvement the firm is also awarded the Diamond Banner.”
Rowland Waddington, Operations Manager at Lanyon Bowdler, said: “This is excellent news for us and we are delighted that our ongoing efforts in improving our environmental performance has again been recognised in this way.
“The environment and taking care of the world around us is extremely important today and we are always happy to consider anything which will help towards this goal.”
Brian Evans, Managing Partner at Lanyon Bowdler, added: “We are very committed as a firm to reducing our carbon footprint as much as possible.
“For instance, our new Hereford office includes a state-of-the-art heating control system which monitors the internal and external temperature and can be operated remotely, the lift is a 23 per cent lower energy electric lift, plus where we have installed new light fittings these are all LED lights.
“When we replace computers across the firm where older computers are no longer meeting the needs of the business, the replacement computers are all compact low-energy devices.
“We also continue to encourage staff to travel together to events where possible and will be planning to build on the implementation of iManage, a document management system, to reduce the amount of printing and paper usage in the future.”
