As the first CarbonNeutral company of its type, Commercial has embedded sustainability into its operations.

By enhancing business processes the company has also reduced its environmental impact. In 2007, Commercial launched a Carbon Reduction Programme that will reduce its carbon emissions by 75% in three years by stages. Our carbon footprint has been measured and audited by the Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Management. The company reached its 25% reduction target in summer 2007.

Commercial has also engaged with suppliers and assisted customers in their own environmental efforts, including encouraging a number to themselves become CarbonNeutral.

Within the Service Division, environmental activity is codified in a ISO14001-compliant Environmental Management System. This ensures that activities are undertaken to minimise environmental impacts, for example by using efficient driving techniques, reducing journey miles and using low pollution cleaning materials.

In addition, energy efficient data centre design, paper-reducing management systems and server consolidation can all offer substantial environmental benefits. For example, a recent server consolidation project saved the customer over 70% of their energy cost, reducing their office carbon emissions by 30%.