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Lowering Impact, Raising Expectations ACCESS FLOORS

Lowering our Environmental Impact At Kingspan Access Floors, we're constantly striving for sustainability. We're absolutely committed to minimising our impact on the natural environment, which in turn helps you, our customer, in your environmental strategies. We want to be seen as an ethical, renewable and leading provider of affordable best practice solutions for the construction sector. Together with the Kingspan Group, we're aiming to be a global leader in sustainable business. From investing in research and development to optimising our energy and raw material usage, through to...

Using Kingspan Access Floors products and systems can help your organisation to achieve LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) accreditation. LEED is the internationally recognised green building certification system, developed by the US Green Building Council (www.usgbc.org/leed). LEED gives your customers assurance that a building is designed and built using the latest "green" technologies, including energy savings, water efficiency, CO2 emissions reduction and good stewardship of resources. Buildings can qualify for four levels of certification LEED based on a points system...

BREEAM explained Installing Kingspan Access Floors in your building project can help your organisation to achieve a BREEAM (BRE Environmental Assessment Method) rating based on Materials, Health and Wellbeing and Recycled Content. BREEAM can be applied to new builds, major refurbishments and fit outs of major developments. Developed by the Building Research Establishment (BRE) (www.breeam.com), BREEAM is the most widely used environmental performance assessment for non-domestic Health & Wellbeing Credit HEA9 relates to Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs). Our high density particleboard meets...

Check Your Impact With Environmental Product Declarations Kingspan Access Floors were the first access flooring manufacturer in the world to issue an Environmental EPDs enable you to see how our product ranges affect the environment throughout their life cycle. EPDs are internationally recognised and independently verified. All our panels have been assessed in accordance with the requirements of EN 15804 - modules A1 to A3. They form part of a life cycle assessment (LCA) study using production data from our manufacturing facility in Hull. Our EPD LCA study is available on request. w ww.ki n...

Lowering our Environmental Impact Your customers and employees are becoming ever more aware of environmental concerns. Working with us shows your business is environmentally responsible throughout your supply chain. Biomass Boiler We've installed three biomass boilers, each with an output of 999kW. They use surplus chipboard, pallets and sawdust from the manufacturing process and provide 95% of all our heating needs. The remaining 5% is sourced from renewable sources. We've installed 1,000 photovoltaic solar panels at our Hull site to help us achieve 'Net Zero' energy by 2020. The...

Assurance Of Forest Stewardsh Council (FSC) Chain Of Custody 4 We understand the importance of sustainable timber sourcing and the positive impact reducing deforestation can have on our wildlife eco-systems. We were the first raised access flooring company in the world to obtain the Forestry Stewardship Council (FSC) Chain of Custody certification in 2007, which we have You'll find the exact volume of FSC approved materials used on all of our delivery notes and invoices, giving you assurance that we are not putting our natural heritage at risk and helping you support responsible forest...

Internationally Recognised Kingspan Access Floors is leading the way in sustainability. We've put environmental management at the core of our operations, giving you the assurance We maintain a number of international standards (ISO) to help you reduce your environmental impact as well as grow your business. ISO 14001 recognises our effective environmental management system. It is designed to help us remain commercially successful without overlooking our environmental responsibilities and impacts. It can also help you to grow sustainably while reducing the environmental impact of this...

As part of the Kingspan Group, we embarked on a Net Zero Initiative, which in essence aims to make all our worldwide facilities energy neutral by 2020. Our progress in achieving these targets is reported annually through the Kingspan Group annual report. Improving energy efficiency across all of our Group operations is a key element of the strategy to achieve Net Zero. Large scale renewable energy projects that will help us achieve this target are planned across the Group before Carbon Emissions We have successfully reduced our carbon intensity (carbon emissions per €m of turnover) by 14%...

Lowering our Environmental Impact Your Business. At Kingspan Access Floors, we recognise that our activities have wide ranging implications on the environment in both the short and long term. We also appreciate that whatever we do impacts on what you do in your-business. It is our company's policy • Minimise any environmental damage and, where possible, to maximise any opportunity for environmental • Comply with all legal requirements and strive to reduce any adverse environmental impact • Assess and consider adverse environmental impact as an important part of present and future...

Kingspan Access Floors Head Office: Burma Drive, Marfleet, Hull HU9 5SG Email: info@kingspanaccessfloors.co.uk Web: www.kingspanaccessfloors.co.uk