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Setting the standard or missing the mark?

A guidance standard on corporate responsibility is currently in its final review stage and is due for publication in late 2010. ISO 26000 (“Guidance on Social Responsibility”) is intended to set the agenda for organisations on how to address corporate responsibility. Read more

Case Study: Purcell Miller Tritton

Purcell Miller Tritton is a leading architectural practice with a reputation for excellence established over 60 years of work on many of the UK’s best-loved buildings and spaces. Especially known for their skills in conservation architecture, their work is recognised on landmark buildings such as St. Paul’s (RICS Project of the Year, 2009) and Canterbury cathedrals, others like the Athenaeum Hotel and the National Gallery in London or, slightly further afield, Scott and Shackleton’s Huts in Antartica.  Read more

Sustainability - has the dog had its day?

Recent months have seen Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility (CR) budgets slashed and projects mothballed across all sectors and industries. So sharp have been the knives that many have actually been proclaiming the "death" of CR as we know it. But are these rumours based on fact or fiction - and is this in fact an opportunity to really do more with less? Read more

Clean Technology - Waste not, want not

The murky world of anaerobic digestion has often been considered an "also-ran" in the world of clean technology. But could the ugly duckling in fact be a swan? Some of today's advocates are proclaiming that biogas could be no less than an energy revolution, with the potential to provide up to 50% of the UK's residential gas demand in the near future. Read more

Managing Liabilities - with a little help from EU

Whilst the Environmental Liability Directive (2004/35/EC) is one of the most controversial pieces of environmental legislation to emerge from the EU to date, a little forethought can go a long way to avoid falling foul of the new Regs in their early days. Read more

Featured Expert - Graham Ward

Graham is a Director of Tripos and is a specialist in effective management systems. Originally qualifying as a civil engineer, he specialised in geotechnical engineering (receiving a doctorate in 1986) before moving into business management with the global environmental consultancy Dames & Moore in 1991. Read more