Energy Policy

Declaration of commitment
As part of its environmental strategy, Duffield Timber is committed to responsible energy management and practises energy efficiency throughout all its premises, plant and equipment, wherever it is cost-effective to do so.

Policy
The policy is to control energy consumption in order:

• To avoid unnecessary expenditure
• To improve cost- effectiveness, productivity and working conditions
• To protect the environment
• To prolong the useful life of fossil fuels

Objectives
• To buy fuels at the most economic cost
• To burn and use them as efficiently as is practicable
• To reduce the amount of pollution, particularly CO2 and SO2 emissions, caused by energy consumption.
• To reduce, wherever possible, dependence on fossil fuels through the use of passive conservation measures by enhancing use of daylight and natural ventilation.

Immediate aims
In the short term the aims are:

• To invest in a rolling programme of energy saving measures which will maximise returns on investment in order to generate funds which can be re-invested, at least in part, in further energy management activities, and
• To ensure new building designs have thermal insulation values at least 10% better than the building regulation minimum.
• To safeguard these gains by establishing and maintaining a management information system designed to ensure that information is delivered to those who need it, to support their managerial decision making.

Target
To achieve a 5% energy saving each year for the next 3 years, based on corrected temperature data and constant building stock, by good housekeeping.