Accelerating Innovation to Address Climate Change
Accelerating innovation is essential to developing solutions that address climate change and limit global warming to 1.5 degrees for a sustainable future. At Exyte Hargreaves, we’ve been digitally transforming the business to improve efficiencies, productivity and our environmental impact.
Our digital transformation is aimed to enable smoother workflows which improve productivity throughout the company and has additionally come with the benefit of reducing our environmental impact. Through utilising a LEAN approach to the transformation, we were able to consider and identify several sources of waste within our day-to-day practices. One of these wastes being unnecessary usage of materials which our recently implemented digital solutions has been able to drastically reduce.
By managing project models and object information in our common data environment, Dalux, we can handover crucial maintenance and equipment information through a digital medium. This serves to be far more sustainable than the previous information manuals which were once physically sent to asset occupants. In addition to this, our use of Stratus dismisses the need for design drawings to be physically passed between departments and are now transferred digitally. Not only does this drive our paperless workflow objective, but also reduces our consumption of printer ink and the associated electricity used to power a printer.
Providing we continue this path; we are on track to deliver entire projects without using any paper in our detailed design phase. To give an idea of the environmental impact this helps reduce, we can use our scope of work on one of our current projects as an example. Typically, we would require 2 sheets of A3 paper at a minimum to represent design drawings and track each of the product groups we are manufacturing. On this project, we are delivering 128 product groups which would require 256 sheets of A3 paper. It is known that roughly 1 gram of carbon dioxide is emitted in the creation of a single sheet of 80gsm A3 paper, which means that through employing Stratus on this project, we are preventing 2560 grams of CO2 from being created, which is a worthwhile consequence of digitising our model exchange workflow.
