Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire Partnership , Coventry
multi site operation
With twelve sites across the County of Warwickshire offering advice and support to young people on various issues energy efficiency of the organization was becoming a key issue due to increasing costs.
A focus up best practice across the organizations facilities with an emphasis on its employees was very important.
"For an organization that values its people so highly their input was paramount. This is why the i-prophets recommendation of employee engagement was taken on board with open arms. " Clare Hillier , Facilities, CSWP
About CSWP
The Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire Partnerships (CSWP), created as a company limited by guarantee in 1994, unites all sectors of the area’s economy, and seeks to ensure that they are all working together, and pulling in the same direction. This is proving to be more effective than the pragmatic short-term alliances, which have characterized recent activities in economic development. Such partnership action is now a pre-requisite for the attention of public sector finance, and to secure private investment.
open plan offices
investment in time
Issues across the board
The energy use within the organization was found to cover a wide range of end use activities. Heating and cooling was found to be a large consumer of energy, with not standards or set points employed this could very across even an open plan office.
Investing in time and energy
For CWSP the main priority was to ensure that any action was long term, engaging its employees and investing time into processes and procedure to ensure that any action would be continued, a testament to their commitment to the community.