We were fortunate enough to visit Tyseley Energy Park to see the green energy and innovation quarter including the UK’s first multi-fuel low and zero carbon fuel refuelling station, refuelling Birmingham City Council’s fully hydrogen double decker bus fleet!
We then moved onto the six-week project, the aim being set for us to collaboratively identify an area to address relating to sustainability or net zero within one of our organisations or areas of interest. Through networking we soon realised four of us worked in construction, with three of us being members of FIS. With a FM client, main contractor, SFS designer/manufacturer and us being an interior finishes contractor/installer it was brilliant to work together with a mutual desire to make improvements in the construction process from concept, built stage and onto the end user, with my particular area of interest being influencing the design stage, embodied carbon, reducing re-work and recycling. We worked together and had interviews with chosen experts, this is where I met Flavie Lowres, FIS Sustainability Champion, we had a very productive conversation with some great ideas thanks to Flavie.