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Oxfordshire Business Awards

2008 winners of the Sustainability Category

Huge congratulations to Gifford & Partners of Witney, who have won the Sustainability Category of the 2008 Oxfordshire Business Awards. Giffords are a consultancy of engineers and specialist advisors in buildings, civil engineering and environmental development planning.

Not only is their service and products environmentally friendly and helps their clients to reduce their own use of resources as well. They have also paid attention to their internal housekeeping, reducing use of resources by minimising their use of paper and printing, reducing office waste, switching off PC’s and other office equipment when not in use, purchase office supplies locally and are monitoring their energy and water usage to keep costs down.

Their ‘Framework for Sustainability’ is available on their website. A representative from Giffords attended the Milton Park Resource Efficiency Club, OxSBP ‘Green Office’ event and the OxSBP Site Waste Management Plans event in January to gain ideas and inspiration for resource efficiency.

Gifford Ltd framework of sustainability

Runners up are (and big congratulations to them both too!)

Maylarch Environmental Ltd of Eynsham, who specialise in asbestos management, asbestos removal and demolition.

Even though their business is about waste, they manage to recycle an impressive 91% of waste produced, a 2% improvement since the company last entered in 2006; and they plan to improve this further!

They have also paid attention to their internal housekeeping in the office accommodation, have stopped using plastic disposable cups and replaced them with washable china and glass (saves waste), they are sending out documents on CD rather than hardcopy, print double sided, changed their toilet cisterns to water saving ones and all of their drivers had undergone awareness training to reduce the amount of fuel used. A Representative from Maylarch attended the OxSBP Site Waste Management Plans event in January, not only to gain ideas and inspiration, but ensure that Maylarch were well prepared for the new legislation.

Lti-Metaltech Ltd who are based at Milton Park, between Abingdon and Didcot.This company manufactures the metal bodies for MRI body scanners.

2007 winners

Huge congratulations to Ice Energy Heat Pumps Ltd, who won the 2007 Sustainability Category. Ice Energy are based in Eynsham, West Oxfordshire and are the UK’s leading Ground Source Heat Pump supplier. In partnership with npower they are offering an exclusive £1,500 grant for each domestic installation of a heat pump by homeowners, developers, builders, landlords and social housing providers.

Heat Pumps use renewable solar energy stored in the client’s garden to heat their home and hot water, and when coupled with a renewable energy tariff they offer carbon free heating allowing homeowners to substantially reduce their impact on the environment. The systems are safe with no local emissions, have no scheduled maintenance, come with a five year guarantee on parts and labour and have a life span of 25 years.