David Trubridge Design
Design Team Leader Peter Tang says the small Hastings-based company has always had a strong environmental philosophy and their involvement in LCM is an extension of this long-held view.
‘We need hard facts and figures on our environmental footprint to provide to our increasingly environmentally aware customers – these would include carbon emissions, waste generated, energy consumed, and the total distance travelled by our products,’ Peter says.
‘However, until now we haven’t been able to quantify what we do.’
Their involvement in the LCM project is also part of a wider programme to increase market share and to measure the impact of business activity on the environment.
Peter says David Trubridge Design has experienced rapid growth, going from four staff to as many as 18 in just 3 years, and inroads to new markets around the world. These changes have has made it more difficult to monitor ‘baseline’ environmental indicators within the company, including waste and energy use. However, the real difficulty in measuring environmental performance seems to be the lack of readily available data relating to New Zealand, he says.
‘At this stage LCM is a point of difference from a marketing sense but in a few years I’m adamant this environmental information backed with solid credentials will be a requirement.’
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David Trubridge Design
Ph: 06 6500 204
www.davidtrubridge.com