FOCUS INTERVIEW
The SFMI and BAM FM have teamed up to develop a framework to help the FM community achieve net
zero carbon by providing a standardised approach that measures emissions from services. SFMI’s Chris
Havers and BAM’s Reid Cunningham and Anthony Heaton explain the details
In November, Glasgow will play
host to COP26 the United Nations
Climate Conference. In the wake of the
recent UN report, which warned global
temperatures have risen faster since the
1970’s than at any point in the last 2,000
years, there has never been a greater
imperative to tackle climate change and
everyone has a role to play.
With 30 per cent of the UK’s total Scope
2 carbon emissions (including imported
emissions) coming from the built
environment, FMs have a significant role
in helping to meet the challenges ahead.
But according to the SFMI (Sustainable FM
Index) many FMs do not have a true picture
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of the carbon impact of their activities
and in most cases, it is larger than many
organisations report. (See Sustainable Core
in July FMJ for more on the results).
To address this, the SFMI and BAM FM
have joined together to develop a
framework that provides a standardised
approach for the FM community. The SFMI’s
purpose is to embed sustainability into
the management and operation of the FM
sector. It believes that the FM sector can
have a much greater impact if it embeds
sustainability from a corporate level
right through to a contract delivery level.
Being able to deliver its services through
a sustainability lens will enable it to align
with the growing strategic importance that
customers in both the public and private
sector are placing on sustainability topics
such as zero carbon plans.
BAM FM already has a proven track
record of delivering sustainable solutions
and embedded its ‘building a sustainable
tomorrow’ strategy into core business
values. BAM Energy was set up as a
separate entity within BAM FM to design
and promote energy projects that help
customers improve their energy e iciency.
The framework is being introduced to
help FMs measure scope 3 emissions from
their service, by establishment of a clear
boundary and a rulebook for categorising
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