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Edinburgh conference centre gets big green award
Wins European sustainability good practice EFQM final: winners include low CO2 powertrain
Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC) has taken one of the top prizes in the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) Sustainability Good Practice Competition. The City of Edinburgh Council owned company was Highly Commended in Europe’s most demanding test of sustainability at work, sharing the top-two finish with Belgian chemical and plastics company, Solvay.
EICC was highly commended for its Plan-it green™ Sustainable Events Programme that helps the business and its clients to minimise emissions across a range of greenhouse gasses. A further sequestration option is available employing a carbon sink of native Scottish woodland.
Overall winner in the competition was document and information management company, Ricoh Europe for its Sustainability Optimisation Programme that helps customers visualise and reduce their impact on the environment.
Six companies made it through to the final including Fiat Group for the introduction of its TwinAir low CO2 powertrain, winner of the International Engine of the Year Award, 2011. Finalists presented their sustainability good practice initiatives to an EFQM judging panel in Brussels.
Commenting on winning one of the top prizes EICC’s CEO, Hans H. Rissmann OBE said:
“Caring for the environment must become an embedded business process in all companies, irrespective of size, as customers everywhere increasingly demand positive ‘People, Planet, Profit’ outcomes.
In the same month EICC won the Venue Sustainability Award of the Year for Plan-it green™ from the Association of Event Organisers.
Valere Tjolle
Valere is editor of the Sustainable Tourism Report Suite 2011 Special Offers HERE
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