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Sustainability on Estates
at Home and Abroad
9 July 2009
• FCO estate consists of office and residential
accommodation in 270 posts and our office in the
UK (London and Buckinghamshire)
• Greening the FCO Change programme launched
in February 2008, with the objectives of ensuring
that:
- all aspects of FCO operations are
managed sustainably; and
- environmental considerations are at the
heart of the way the FCO is run.
• Our carbon footprint in the UK is approx. 15,000
tonnes (buildings and vehicles only). We plan to
have measured our global carbon footprint by the
end of the year.
Policy and Drivers:
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Contribute to global effort to alleviate climate
change
Promotion of a low carbon, high growth
economy
Climate Change Act
Meeting HMG obligations on the home estate
e.g. SOGE
Inclusive and popular with staff
Legal requirements in host country
Foreign Secretary’s personal commitment
Consistency with action in the UK
Our strategy:
•In the UK: an Environmental Management Plan
(ISO 14001) to return us to a trajectory to meet
SOGE targets in 2012 and 2020.
•Overseas: the FCO Board agreed we should
reduce our emissions from buildings by 14% by
2012.
•With further targets overseas on renewable
energy, emissions from road vehicles, waste and
recycling, water and emissions from air travel.
Building Renewable Road
Waste
Emissions Energy
Vehicles*
Recycling Water
Absolute Increase in Absolute Absolute % share
reduction share
reduction reduction
FCO 2012
targets
SOGE
2012
headline
SOGE
2020
headline
SOGE
2012
recast
SOGE
2020
recast
Air Travel
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Absolute Absolute
reduction reduction
-14%
2%
-14%
-16%
32%
-15%
-2%
-12.5%
10%
-15%
-5%
40%
n/a
n/a
-30%
n/a
n/a
-20%
75%
-25%
n/a
-21%
n/a
-22%
n/a
47%
-21%
n/a
-35%
n/a
n/a
n/a
75%
-33%
n/a
Source: Carbon Trust hypotheses/analysis
Note:
Have not set targets for freight and IT respectively, as
further detail needed especially on centralised activities.
*Targets shown only for owned road vehicles
** Top down targets
Making a difference:
Renewables
Staff Behaviour
Energy Efficiency
Heating/Cooling
•Attention to air leakage from
buildings at design stage
Buildings Basics
•Control systems
•Orientation
•Natural ventilation including over
•Integrated building systems
night cooling (requires diurnal
with extensive metering
swing)
•Maximise use of daylight
•Proper insulation and shading •Under floor heating
•Condenser boilers
•Local sustainable materials
•Cooling from chilled water ring
•Use of thermal mass (requires
mains/chilled beams (not in humid
a diurnal swing in temperature)
environments)
•CHP and cooling
Water
•Low-water usage fixtures/fittings •Evaporative coolers
•Rainwater harvesting/recycling •Green roofs
for grey water use and irrigation •Reduced use of refrigerants
•Appropriate plants for the climate
Electricity
(water treatment to prevent
•Power factor correction
scale/fouling)
•Fuel cells
•Leak detection system
•Efficient lighting ( including
•Insulated tanks to keep water
daylight adjusting/PIR )
cool
THE ESTATE
Facilities Management:
•Interserve have contract for UK and 14 North
West European Posts.
•Contractual commitments to meet SOGE targets,
comply with ISO14001 in the UK and with the
Principles of Environmental Management
overseas.
•Posts in Hong Kong, Paris and Berlin also have
FM contracts and work with their FM providers to
reduce their emissions. Berlin has just been
awarded the first BREEAM In Use Very Good
outside the UK.
•Our priorities this year in the UK are installing
smart metering and improving our DEC
performance.
Changing Behaviour:
•FCO Board see this as a priority in 2009.
•Significant staff enthusiasm, the challenge is channelling this.
Celebrating our achievements and recognising staff efforts an
important aspect e.g. the Foreign Secretary’s Greening the FCO
Award
•Already score highly on SOGE targets for mechanisms to support
sustainability.
•Developing initiatives which will have a direct impact on staff:
Sustainable operations as a corporate objective, mandated in
some cases e.g. estates and procurement.
Include sustainability in all training on corporate activities: e.g.
project management, procurement, and Post management.
Mandate consideration of sustainability when describing
resource implications in submissions and all capital decisions.
 A new printer:user ratio would demand changes to working
practices.
Replacing private mileage claims with hire of low carbon
vehicles when public transport is really not an option.
Renewables:
•Solar hot water – in the UK and overseas
•Solar PVs - looking for somewhere to deploy this
and demonstrate VFM
•Ground source/air heat pumps – in the UK and
overseas
•Biomass boilers – in the UK
•Wind turbines - concerns about financing and
planning permission
Funding:
•Promoting VFM
•Salix funding – not really designed for central government
departments. Interest free loans of a minimum of £5,000
•Low Carbon Buildings programme – grants of up to
£200,000 per project for small scale renewables.
•BIS Forward Commitment Plan – no money but help with
creative collaborative procurement process to meet an unmet
need. Closed to new proposals.
•Retrofit for the Future (SBRI) – focused on energy efficiency.
Only £1m of funding for the research and testing of technical
innovations in iconic buildings
Showing Visible Leadership in Building a Sustainable Future Estate
Doha: Use of shading to
reduce temperature of the
building
Warsaw: New Embassy will use a double skin
facade to bring insulation levels 10% above
current UK building regulations
Colombo: Use of a thermal
chimney to provide natural
ventilation in corridors