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FM and sustainability waste management and recycling
Case study 1:CAFOD – the Catholic Agency for
Overseas Development

Background:
CAFOD was founded in 1960 and operates as the official Catholic aid agency for England and Wales.
Working with partners in more than 40 countries, it tackles poverty and addresses access to clean water, healthcare and education. Increasingly, CAFOD focuses on climate change, lobbying European governments to reduce emissions

Challenge:
The audit identified materials purchased and waste – at 27 and 19 per cent respectively – as having the greatest impact after travel. Paper was quickly identified as the main influence.

FM solutions:
1. reduce the number of printers and copiers throughout the building. Replacing individual printers with
10 combination printer/copier/scanner machines set by default to print double-sided
2. Large files can be scanned, emailed and stored electronically rather than in paper files.
3. Maintenance is managed through a click charge where costs are assessed depending on the level of use. Once a threshold is reached, engineers – or toner cartridges – are automatically dispatched.
4. The majority of CAFOD's paper use is through its direct mail campaigns, which raise funds from supporters or generate a swell of lobbying support for a particular campaign. Reducing the paper size to A5 would be a solution.
Results:
1. “Reducing the units of equipment has a lower cost for the maintenance and purchasing of copiers and printers but, in combination with the fall in paper usage, it has also reduced the amount of space needed to store consumables. We would have needed an awful lot more space if we had brought all of the old printers and copiers with us; in fact, we have gained capacity for 100 extra staff by cutting down our storage needs and making the most of a better-designed space with improved layout.”
2. diverted an additional 18 tonnes of waste from landfill
3. facilitated a £1,874 cut in purchasing costs.
4. Reducing paper size to A5 has had a major impact on paper use, while Padgett added that switching from recycled paper made from print and paper offcuts to 100 per cent post-consumer stock – which is manufactured from household or business waste paper – has also proved beneficial

FM and space planning
Case study 2:
London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
Challenge:
• Generating space for additional staff
Solution:
• Remodelling the existing
Action:
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215 desks have been remodelled over a period of one year
Results:
• cost saving of almost £20,000.(Approximate saving of £90 per unit) compared to new replacements • 8.6 tonnes diverted from landfill
• 23.22 tonnes of carbon equivalent saved