Research and Consultancy
The Sustainability Centre in Glasgow (SCG) is staffed by Five Principal
Consultants and six Consultants with an expert track record and
considerable experience in all aspects of sustainability. This includes
sustainability assessment, policy implementation, legal requirements,
improving business competitiveness, waste minimisation and management,
energy efficiency, and environmental management systems across a
wide range of industrial, private, public, community and voluntary
sectors.
Our service aims to be:
- Innovative
- Independent
- Expert
- Comprehensive
- Bespoke, to meet your requirements
1- Sustainable Development Policy / Strategy:
- Assessment of implementation issues
- Strategy evaluation and re-formulation in light of changes in the external regulatory / legal environment
- Production of policy statements in line with the external regulatory / legal environment
- Facilitation for in-house analysis
- Provision of external analytical services
- Advisory services
2- Audits
- Waste Audits
- Water Audits
- Energy Audits
- Environmental Reviews
- Compliance Audits
3- Environmental Management Systems
- Policy
- Organisation and Personnel
- Register of Regulations
- Register of Environmental Effects
- Objectives and Targets
- Management Programme and Manual
- Operational Control and Records
4- Waste Minimisation
- Waste Management Strategy
- Duty of Care Compliance Audit
- Packaging Regulations
5- Social and Cooperate Responsibility
- Awareness/attitudes/behaviour of employees in workplace towards sustainability issues (questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, focus groups, participant observation)
- employee participation (how to engage employees in decision making) in sustainability issues (e.g. recycling initiatives)
- promoting positive relations between private companies and local community (e.g. Good Neighbourhood Agreements)
- private companies and local authorities ~ pursuing pro-active strategies that work towards the betterment of local environment
6- Knowledge and Innovation Management
- Identify and Map out knowledge sources and assets in organizations and teams
- Develop strategies for better management of organizational knowledge
- Measure the impact of organizational knowledge on process improvement and organizational performance
- Assist organizations in identifying key issues impacting upon the innovative capability of organizations
- Developing strategies for better management of innovation processes
Last Updated: 17th October 2006
Edited by: the
Web Team, Glasgow Caledonian University
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