Touchwood awarded Green World Ambassador status
Touchwood Solihull has been globally recognised as promoting environmental best practise through its Green World Ambassador status.
The status is awarded after businesses and organisations ‘help others to help the environment’ by having their award-winning papers published in The Green Book, the world’s only annual global work of reference on environmental best practice.
The Green Book CD is distributed free of charge around the world and on the www.thegreenorganisation.info to enable governments, businesses, environmental professionals, organisations and universities to follow the lead of Green World Ambassadors.
The centre beat off strong competition from more than 500 other nominations and representatives for their Green Apple Award winning paper.
Touchwood was recognised for high achievement in a host of sustainable projects including full ISO 14001:2015 & ISO 50001:2018 accreditation as well as reducing CO2 emissions in 2019 and 2020 by 53 per cent and 59 per cent respectively, compared to the baseline output of 2014.
This recognition follows the shopping centre’s International Green Apple Award win last year.
In 2021, Touchwood was also named as the first shopping centre in the UK to be awarded a 2-star Fitwel accreditation, additionally achieving the highest Fitwel Healthy Building score of any retail environment globally.
Tony Elvin, general manager, said: “To be recognised in this way is a fantastic achievement and we are especially proud to know that the hard work done here in Solihull can be used to help other sustainable businesses around the world make an impact within their own communities.
“Reducing our impact on the environment is something we are passionate about and we’re constantly looking at developing and implementing new projects to help us achieve this.
“Winning this Green Apple award was a true team effort and I would like to say a huge thank you to everyone at Touchwood for getting behind the initiative and making this win possible but special thanks must also go to our newly promoted Property Manager Lynsey Riley for leading on this Project.”
The Green Apple Environment Awards, are an annual international campaign run by The Green Organisation.
