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Green i Environmental
Property Letting with Principles
Few things are more important than the sustainability of our natural world. As a responsible letting agent, we’re conscious of the impact that our properties can have on the environment. That’s why we’re constantly improving the way things are done, working to ensure our carbon footprint remains minimal while maximising the ways we can benefit the world around us.
In doing so, we’re not only able to maintain our own standards of environmental responsibility but also help our tenants and our landlords do the same. Action against climate change requires a global and united effort — and that’s what our Green Initiative is all about.
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Our environmental credentials
Since 2013, we’ve been actively working with our landlords to reduce carbon emissions from the properties we let. Together Blue i Properties not only developing better and more energy-efficient homes for our tenants, we’re also creating cleaner, greener developments that benefit the environment in the following ways:
We all need to our utmost to reduce our individual Carbon Footprint and Blue i is supporting this global requirement in various ways with property insulation, home energy consumption and personal bicycle transportation.
- Increasing the number of homes with sufficient loft insulation — A quarter of the heat generated in the home is potentially lost via the roof. Sufficient insulation in the loft not only helps reduce energy bills but also helps reduce property emissions by up to 30%.
- Upgrading external wall insulation with every refurbishment — Sufficient wall insulation reduces heat loss by up to 35%. All our properties with external wall cavities that undergo refurbishment are fitted with insulation sheets of Rockwool.
- Reducing unnecessary energy consumption — 31% of the UK’s carbon footprint is the electricity and gas we consume in our homes. By offering different ways of saving energy, we help tenants save money and reduce property emissions.
- Increasing the number of properties with meadow flower gardens ... and this way we’re helping our pollinators - bees, butterflies and insects, essential to our ecosystem - thrive and facilitate the reproduction of 90% of the world’s flowering plants.
- Providing tenants with subsidised bicycles, to encourage them to travel between lectures by bicycle, thus reducing traffic pollution, giving them control over their timetables and allowing them to include exercise in their daily routines.
As of 2019, when the initiative first started, Blue i Properties has been a firm supporter of the Trees for Derby project. The scheme encourages local businesses and residences to tackle urban regeneration and plant 250,000 trees in Derby, as part of the UK target to plant 3 billion trees nationwide by the year 2050. This initiative helps simultaneously mitigate CO2 emissions while creating large areas of new native woodland integral to our wildlife.
