Faculty of Business Environment and Society
M113GED Coursework 2014/15
Coursework 2. Environmental audit and improvement strategy for a company.
You will be assigned an individual company to audit and to develop an environmental improvement strategy. The strategy should be linked to the economic performance of the company over a three year period.
Your company has just started to consider obtaining ISO14001, but is housed in old buildings and operates with rather old equipment which may or may not meet current legislation. You have to make significant environmental improvements without bankrupting the company.
Using the company description analyse the information and determine what further data is needed to complete your technical audit of the company.
1. Analyse the data and write an audit report.
2. Add a three year environmental improvement strategy to your audit report. This should be appropriately costed, and as with the Purile case study, you cannot have any extra money at the beginning of the process.All improvements must be financially and technically detailed. A spreadsheet template will be provided.
If you find the assignment too demanding then a fallback position is to use the paper industry model contained in VETC. Successfully completing the coursework in this way will result in a maximum module mark of 40% for this component.
Coursework protocol.
You must submit the spreadsheet and a word document which is linked using the improvement measure numbering.
A) Company description 100 words (0 marks)
B) Audit 1000 words[10 marks from the emailing process] (46 marks)
C) Improvement measures (46 marks)
E1.1
E1.2
To
N3.3
Describe each measure in technical and financial detail so that a manager could act on the information. In the example spreadsheet there are spaces for a number of possible measures. If you wish to add a different category that is OK. There is no word limit for the description of measures, but you should be able to complete each measure in typically 200- 400 words, that is around 3000 words altogether for section C). You cannot make savings from salaries as this assignment is to show environmental improvements, and not necessarily from commercial improvements.
Low/no cost measures
You should complete up to three low cost, or no cost measures, such as good housekeeping or changing to low energy light bulbs.
[ Eachlow/no measure is worth up to 6 Marks]
Medium/high cost measures.
You should include at least four medium/high cost measures, such as replacing electric motors with high efficiency ones.
. [ Eachmedium/high measure is worth up to 7 Marks]
Label each measure for example “ L2.3 high”
D) Spreadsheet.
For a successful case study you must provide a three yearspreadsheet, which starts with £0 and ends with a positive value but includes a reduction impact of the company and the obtaining of ISO14001. The strategy must be logical. Include a 30 word conclusion.
(8 Marks)
Measure E1.1 low
Fitting low energy light bulbs. As illustrated in the table below, compact fluorescent light bulbs emit the same light level as conventional tungsten filament bulbs but are much more efficient since they do not operate at high temperature in order to produce visible light. In the table below the calculation is done for a single bulb operating for 8000hours. Assuming that the company has 302 light bulbs, used for 8 hours per day, with 270 operational days per year, and that these are replaced by low energy ones as they fail after 1000hours,
Each day: number of bulb hours = 302*8 = 2416 hours, and so on average 2.416 bulbs would be replaced each day.
As each bulb lasts 1000hours, they last a maximum of 1000/8 = 125 days. Therefore after 125 days all of the old bulbs would have been replaced.
The extra cost of replacing old bulbs with compact fluorescents = 302*(£5.0-£0.5)=£1359
Daily savings when all are replaced = 302*8h*(0.1-0.02)kW*£0.12/kWh= £23.19
For the first year:
Starting with 302 old bulbs, and replacing them as they fail
0-125 days would be the replacement period. So an average of 67.5 days are spent with the compact fluorescents. Energy savings = 67.5* £23.19 = £1565.33
125-270 days would be the rest of the year, entirely using the compact fluorescents. Energy savings = 145*£23.19 = 3362.55
Total savings for the year = £1565.33+3362.55 = £4927.88
Net savings for the year = £4927.88-£1359.00 = £3568.88
Conventional bulb 1200lumens
Equivalent to the light output of 100W tungsten bulb. Compact Fluorescent Bulb
100W=0.1kW Electrical power 20W =0.020kW
1000hours Life 8000hours
£0.50 Capital cost £5.00
Costs for 8000hours
8*£0.50 = £4.00 Capital cost £5.00
0.1kW*8000h*£0.12/kWh
=£96.00
Electricity cost (@£0.12/kWh) 0.02kW*8000h*£0.12/kWh
=£19.20
£100.00 Total cost £24.20
