New Ways of Working Network

eco2workplace tool

Have you used our eco2Workplace tool? 

One of the benefits of NewWOW membership is the free use of our eco2Workplace tool. The tool was designed to help organizations comprehensively assess the sustainability of organizational work-systems, including global group distribution, facility performance, technology usage, commute patterns of each locale, and meeting patterns, including air travel.

As companies rethink their design, supply chain and product life-cycles to minimize their environmental impact, they also have to rethink how their employees work as a significant contributor to green house gas emissions. Up until now, there hasn’t been a convenient way to assess organizational ways of working. But with eco2 Workplace, organizations can comprehensively assess the sustainability of ways of working-- encompassing where groups are located, the energy efficiencies of the buildings they work in, their commute patterns, meeting and business travel, including especially air travel, and their use of technology.

eco2 Workplace is designed for higher level corporate managers who are responsible for the sustainable impacts of group locations, workplace locations and characteristics, office technologies, meeting and air travel patterns. These may be group business managers, sustainability/environmental managers, real estate/facilities/HR/IT/Shared Services mangers.

The eco2 Workplace tool originated with the members of the New Ways of Working Network, was funded and managed by Jones Lang LaSalle and developed by iDEA and VTT, a major Finnish Research organization with deep expertise in sustainability

modeling. To use the tool, go to: http://www.eco2workplace.com/

Hewlett-Packard Carbon Footprint Study

A team at Hewlett-Packard, The Netherlands, investigated the effect of various carbon reduction scenarios, using NewWOW’s eco2workplace tool. They evaluated the consolidation of three sites in the Netherlands. The team found that consolidating into a single site, with telecommuting reduce CO2 emissions by 29.5%, and consolidating into two sites without telecommuting reduced the emission by 12%. http://www.newwow.net/node/1254

 Go to http://www.newwow.net/node/880 for a presentation of the eco2Workplace.