Derby-based architectural and urban design practice Lathams has achieved the environmental standard ISO14001:2004, underlining the company’s current and future commitment to sustainability.
The ISO 14001 international standard provides both a model for streamlining environmental management and guidelines to ensure environmental issues are considered within decision making practices.
The company attained the standard after a series of audits at its Derby offices by the assessment company LRQA. Lathams will be assessed every nine months to ensure continual development of the Environmental Management System (EMS) currently in place.
Lathams’ EMS covers all of its operations across architectural design, urban design and the practice of building projects including the production of constructional information, contact administration and feasibility studies.
Managing director Chris Twomey said: “Lathams has a broad commitment to sustainability that relates not just to the buildings we create and remodel, the spaces around them and the way that those spaces work as part of communities, but also to the way we go about our own business.
“ISO14001 helps us be sure that our approach to our work is as sustainable as the low energy or carbon buildings we are creating for our clients.”
