The first step of your journey is about understanding the current environmental impact of your business and working out where new efficiencies can be realised.

Our experts at the Universities Partnership are in a unique position to deliver value to local businesses like yours. We have a wealth of expertise and can provide access to a whole host of useful resources that help you understand energy scopes, demystify what it means to be a responsible business and significantly improve the way your organisation operates.

Need to learn more about what net zero means?

These short videos can help you understand the jargon:

Learn more here

Already have a good idea of where your business currently stands?

We have a number of free online tools that can help you formalise a plan for the future:

• Calculate your carbon footprint
• Benchmark your building’s efficiency against industry standards
• Download a free waste audit to discover how you can improve your efforts to reduce waste

Success speaks for itself

Take a look at some of our case studies.

“We were keen to reduce our energy usage as much as possible, in order to save money and possibly increase profitability.

We were interested to find out what measures would be suitable for our business, and how we could implement changes to reduce our energy usage both in terms of our manufacturing processes and building use.

With the LIA’s support, we’ve been able to objectively assess the current impact of our business on the environment, understand areas for change and improvement, and make long-term decisions on how we can adjust our processes in the future to operate more sustainably as a business. We now have a list of actions, some which we can implement quickly, and others that will take a little longer.

Angela Orton
Managing Director
Structural Adhesives