The BMF Sustainability Forum at the NSBRC with Giles Bradford and Mike Tattam has wrapped. These forums are always packed full of great insights and challenging thinking from the movers and shakers driving the challenging sustainability agenda in the Building Materials sector.
I was there to help align Sustainability with the BMF’s Sector Awareness Programme by championing how we are ‘Making a Material Difference’ and to run the afternoon working group session. This important working group will have some exciting developments to share later in the year about the launch of the industry’s first Sustainability tab as part of the BMF’s product data standardisation template – watch this space and thanks to Jewson’s Rich Sykes and sub group specialists for making this a reality.
Some key takeaways:
Giles: “The biggest impact we can make is by influencing our customers”
Event Sponsors Lecico Bathrooms and Tom Farrant: “Water saving innovations in bathrooms are key to reducing in-home water wastage” – check out Lecico’s Propelair – the water saving toilet
Harvey Fremlin MD, NSBRC: “Inspire and inform, people don’t want sustainability forced upon them”
Brett Amplett, BMF’s policy and public affairs guru: “The BMF’s No 1 ask for any new government is to make it easier and quicker to build more homes anywhere’ – Check out the next Onevoice magazine to find out what’s around the corner with the general election and how this might affect sustainability”
Alex O’Dell and Neil Freshwater, VELUX: “It’s important to challenge how we build and to put sustainability at the heart of your corporate strategy – not see it as a stand alone bolt on strategy”
Robert Price: “It’s all about helping customers achieve Net Zero in tangible and practical ways”
And everyone agreed:“We can’t afford to wait for customer demand or government legislation – we need to collaborate to accelerate adoption of more sustainable building materials NOW!”
Great job everyone – see you next time!
Dianne Lucas – Managing Director, CMDi