A Manchester-based company striving to improve sustainability in its office buildings across the north of England and Midlands plans to use double glazing and extra insulation, it has been reported.

Office management firm Bruntwood has acquired a portfolio of more than 90 office buildings in Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds and Birmingham that are home to more than 1,000 businesses and 30,000 staff, according to the Manchester Evening News.

Iain Grant, the company's director of facilities management, has been looking at ways to make the firm's portfolio more sustainable for the past three years.

"A range of options are available here - from double glazing to extra insulation. However, the biggest opportunity to reduce wasteful consumption is by changing the consumer patterns of our occupiers," he explained.

"We are trying to tackle the issue of climate change and play our part in lessening future problems - and assisting our customers [in doing] the same," he concluded.

Earlier in the year government officials urged business owners to boost insulation and take up the "green building challenge" in their quest to bring down the country's carbon footprint.

Communities minister Iain Wright pointed out that the nation's buildings are responsible for almost half of all energy consumption and carbon emissions - a higher quantity than road or air traffic.

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Author:  Nick Appleyard

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