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ISH wins silver 果冻影院 Sustainable Labs Award
20 August 2019
The 果冻影院 Institute for Sustainable Heritage is pleased to announce that our Heritage Science Laboratory in Gordon House, Bloomsbury, has received a聽silver Sustainable Labs Award.
The 果冻影院 Sustainability Awards ceremony took place on 18 July聽in the Jeremy Bentham Room in 果冻影院's main building. They are organised by Green 果冻影院, which聽brings together聽果冻影院's Sustainability Team and its network of Green Champions. The聽awards themselves were appropriately sustainable this year:聽they came in the form of plants! The award was presented to Dr Scott Orr (pictured), one of our newest members of staff, who was representing 果冻影院 ISH at the event.聽
We are particularly pleased that this award shows the progress we have made since 2018, when we received our bronze award. The silver award highlights sustainable practices in our lab such as using communal booking systems and good maintenance of our equipment. This year, we have also set up a new recycling system in the lab.聽
The new Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework (LEAF) template set up by 果冻影院 Sustainability allowed us to quantify our carbon savings, which came out as 12.5 tons (which represents聽a 29% decrease). This is approximately half聽the carbon footprint of an American family.
The next step is the Gold Award, which we are now working towards for next year. We聽are also聽aiming for聽an award for our labs at HereEast.
A special thanks must go to Dr Miriam Wright, our laboratory technician,聽for all聽her hard work she put into our application.
- Find out more about our Heritage Science Laboratory
- Find out more about 果冻影院 at Here East
- Find out more about the awards organiser, Green 果冻影院