Pictured: Lance Jones

A Northamptonshire business is part of a team nominated for the International Green Awards™ 2011.

Working Strategy Ltd, based in Raunds, helped develop and deliver a project for The Carbon Trust on behalf of their client, Sysdoc, which has been nominated for the Best Green Government Award. The project is one of five nominees from around the world and the winners will be announced at a 'Green Gala' ceremony at the Natural History Museum, London on 24 November. The International Green Awards recognise creativity and a proactive approach to sustainability, awarding organisations that have demonstrated true innovation and implemented real systemic change.

Lance Jones, Managing Consultant at Working Strategy, headed the team that delivered the Carbon Trust Aggregates Carbon Reduction Project. By working with businesses in the quarrying and asphalt manufacturing sectors, Working Strategy increased energy awareness amongst employees to identify opportunities for reducing carbon emissions and energy costs throughout the businesses. They then evaluated and implemented these opportunities, before tracking and measuring them to develop an effective energy management strategy. The project started with some of the biggest firms in the aggregates industry and was rolled out to medium sized companies, and then to smaller companies via online resources.

Lance Jones commented: "We are delighted with the success of the project. Using our change management methods we engaged employees throughout the organisations and achieved significant energy and cost reductions. In some cases, payback on investment has been in less than 12 months."