Shad Thames, London Bridge
This will allow a base for their staff to be more accessible and react even faster to customer requirements as RAP are securing a number of projects for clients in Canary Wharf, Kensington and Knightsbridge. This is yet another success story for RAP Interiors.
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Ska Rating will help organisations make informed decisions about fit out projects in the context of the growing importance of sustainability on the corporate agenda and a burgeoning statute book.
It is designed to be of particular use for occupiers but has benefits for other property stakeholders including landlords, developers, consultants, fit out contractors and the supply chain.
For occupiers/tenants
Measure sustainability impact accurately
Whether you are a tenant of a single office doing a one-off fit out or a major corporate occupier Ska Rating is the first system designed to measure 100% of the sustainability of your fit out and decide what is most important.
The rating is influenced entirely by what you choose to do, not by what has been done in the past.
Manage the bottom line:
By following good practice occupiers may be able to reduce costs
For example utilities bills, facilities' staff time, paper and travel. Using energy efficient methods and appropriate recycling should lead to a reduction in resource consumption and improved efficiency. Ska is a decision-making tool which ranks the different aspects of a fit out based on what will have the biggest impact on sustainability. It can therefore be used to help the design team achieve maximum sustainability for a given budget
Follow good practice: Environmental sustainability is already a point of compliance for the majority of SMEs and all corporates and Government entities. However there is no method available to them for fit outs to help achieve any measure of sustainability.
Legal/Statutory compliance:
Corporate Responsibility is a key emerging area for companies, led by legislation. Under Section 172 of the Companies Act 2006 - company directors are required to promote the success of the company and must have 'regard to the impact of the company's operations on the community and the environment'.
Occupiers face board-level demand for sustainability.
Ska is based on robust guidance which dispels a lot of myths: sustainability not just a luxury for big companies who can afford it. Ska rates what is actually important and makes the biggest impact in terms of sustainability and adds another dimension beyond cost and quality to assess fit out projects...
Are you ISO 14001 accredited? A Ska certificate helps you ensure that a fit out project is rated accurately and can be used to support your environmental management system
Customer, investor and stakeholder perception: A Ska Rating certificate can help an organization demonstrate that it takes sustainability seriously and has achieved a standard with its property. This can feature in annual reports, environmental policy or tender documentation or be displayed in a building.
Staff engagement: many employees (whether existing staff members or potential recruits) increasingly place a value on a company's green credentials as well as wishing to work in high quality spaces. A Ska Rating can be used to reinforce staff morale and complements other CSR activity.
For developers and landlords
Use Ska Rating to set targets, then use the formal assessment process to assure yourself that target performance standards are met, and finally use the certificate to report their performance to stakeholders.
Benchmark the sustainability of fit outs across a portfolio of buildings.
Include the use of the RICS Ska Rating in 'Green Lease' provisions to help drive up the sustainability of properties or protect a building already certified under a whole building assessment method.
Sustainability increasingly makes good business sense. Research demonstrates an expected increase in the asset value of labelled low carbon buildings compared with standard speculative buildings
For consultants
Embed Ska Rating in your standard processes to demonstrate that you follow a sustainable specification and procurement process for fit out.
Use the Ska Rating tool and datasheets to support delivery of professional advice to clients on good practice in sustainable fit out and to assess their designs and projects
Offer Ska Rating certificated assessments to clients who wish to demonstrate they have achieved more sustainable fit out through the Ska Accredited Assessors scheme
For contractors
Use the assessment process and related guidance to make your design, specification, procurement and construction practices more environmentally sustainable.
Demonstrate your sustainability credentials to clients and consultants by making the targeting of standards under Ska Rating part of your standard tender process
RAP offer a complete energy and sustainability management Service
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Due to budget pressures as a result of the economic recession Maidstone’s Christmas Park and Sail shopping trips on the The Kentish Lady Christmas were due to cease this year. The Kentish Lady is the only boat in the country which has been offering a Christmas Park & Ride service. Established over 10 years, it has delighted shoppers to the town at this festive time of year. The boat has carried an amazing 5000 passengers in the last 5 years. A local business, RAP Office Contracts, owned by Julie and Richard Anderson has stepped into the breach and saved the service from annihilation. RAP Office Contracts has itself felt the squeeze from funding being withdrawn from the government’s Building Schools for the Future and felt that it was time for Kent business to pull together and create a change for the better in the town.
RAP have therefore sponsored the Kentish Lady to provide a park and sail service operating from the Museum of Kent Life – who have provided the parking - to sail to and from Maidstone during November and December, 2010. They have also added a few surprises for passengers by donating ticket sale monies to Maidstone Survivors of Bereavement Suicide.
Children will be delighted when, on one special park and sail, someone dressed in red with a snowy white beard will distribute gifts and entertain them during their trip. This should give parents ample time to write their shopping lists!
RAP , having signed Kent County Council directive for Backing Kent Business a few years back take their Corporate Social Responsibility very seriously and have raised over £25000 in the last 3 years for other charities.
Councillor Ben Sherreard, Cabinet Member for the Environment said: “We are delighted that RAP has stepped in and saved the park and sail service. The decision to stop it this year was taken most reluctantly. We wish them every success in this venture and we’re pleased that money is going to a very good cause.”
RAP would like to thank Lee Bennett and Bill Moss of Maidstone Town Centre Partnerships who have brought the business side of this sponsorship together and helped RAP ensure that the park and sail is promoted throughout the town. Leaflets detailing dates and times of the Park and Sail service will be available in local shops.
“We urge anyone coming to Maidstone to use the Kentish Lady just once. Their trip will be a stressless, enjoyable ride up the River Medway safe in the knowledge that they are committing their monies to a charity that supports parents of young people who have carried out or thought about carrying out suicide. In this recovering economic climate we continue to remain positive about our business and hope that by helping others we can make just a small difference to a charity that sadly many people need to know is there for them in a time of need. There is no way we could have lost The Kentish Lady from Maidstone”, comments Julie Anderson of RAP. “We will be staging a weekly competition on the boat where passengers will be able to win a variety of fabulous prizes.”
Many local businesses have pledged their support to this year’s extra special Park and Sail trips and RAP would like to thank Lucy from Dance Flair, John from Kent Life, Dean from Signs and Imaging, Suzie Brooks and Paul Alcock from The Mall,Jane from Fremlin Walk, Vronni Ward from the Hazlitt Arts Theatre, Pink Cadillac man, Tourism lady, Jo from Kent Invicta Chamber of Commerce and all the shops in Maidstone who have offered to display the leaflets so everyone in Maidstone is reminded of the dates for the Kentish Lady trips.
Santa arrives in Maidstone on November 13th on The Kentish Lady at 11am and will then ride through Maidstone in a very modern chariot.
Dance Flair will be welcoming him onto dry land down on the river!
Everybody welcome!
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Or call 01622 663232 RAP – ask for Julie
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