GROUNDWORK HELP STOCKPORT COMPANY BIOCENTRE ACHIEVE SILVER AWARD

One of Groundwork’s Stockport based clients, UK Biocentre have achieved Bronze and Silver Environmental Business Pledge Awards.

UK Biocentre have recently achieved their Silver Award for the Stockport Council endorsed Environmental Business Pledge and are working towards implementing energy savings identified from a resource efficiency review.

UK Biocentre has recently taken advantage of the environmental support on offer from Groundwork MSSTT working in partnership with the council and has subsequently achieved the Silver stage of the Environmental Business Pledge (EBP).

UK Biocentre, which is based in Stockport , is a Centre of excellence for the service elements of scientific studies involving data or biological sample collection, analysis and storage.

UK Biocentre signed up to the Environmental Business Pledge with the aim of using the scheme as a means to reducing their carbon footprint and their associated energy bills, which is passed on to its
customers. By joining the Environmental Business Pledge scheme, Biocentre have started to consider their environmental impacts. After an initial meeting with an environmental advisor, it was deemed beneficial in their pursuit of the award to carry out a resource efficiency review.

Having successfully completed the bronze and silver awards, Biocentre are now progressing towards the Gold Environmental Business Pledge Award. They are using the pledge as a platform to implement the ISO 14001 Environmental Management System with the help from Groundwork

The full case study can be seen on the Groundwork  website.