Challenge four

Optimising the built environment

Reassess your use
of space

With sprawling property portfolios, it should come as no surprise that inefficient site management can be a major source of carbon emissions and unnecessary costs for local authorities.

However, the modern, post-Covid world presents a new challenge, especially when it comes to your office spaces. In the world of hybrid work, it’s more important than ever to reassess the way buildings are used and what measures can be taken to optimise them and reduce their environmental impact.

But how do you do that?

It all starts with a bird’s-eye view

The first step is to take a bird’s eye view of your whole property portfolio and ask whether it’s suitable for today’s world.

Do you really need the same footprint as you had before? Are there better uses for some of your spaces?

After doing this, you may decide to divest some of your estate. Or repurpose some spaces so they’re used more efficiently.

When large-scale decarbonisation demands seem daunting, managing what you already have more effectively can be a great starting point. And there are a host of technologies and solutions that can contribute to your environments running more efficiently.