Tourism Emissions Reduction Commitment
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Reporting of Office-Based Environmental Impacts
- The Shrine of Remembrance maintains and regularly reviews an environmental practices policy and is committed to minimising the environmental impacts associated with its activities.
- As part of a Social Procurement Framework supporting local and sustainable suppliers, the Shrine, uses semi-biodegradable and reusable materials in its wreaths, made from Australian grown flowers and foliage.
- The Shrine maintains a 960,000-litre underground water storage tank which is used to store building and hard stand run-off. This water supports irrigation across the site and reduces consumption of potable water. Irrigation is scheduled to occur at night to minimise evaporative loss and drip irrigators are used in densely planted areas to further conserve water.
- A building management system allows for efficient control of climate and lighting systems to meet the needs and expectations of visitors in an energy efficient manner. All public bathrooms utilise auto operated hand dryers. Newer offices and public areas are fitted with motion detectors to activate lighting as a means of reducing electrical consumption. All new and replacement lighting products have been high efficiency LED products.
- Lighting, HVAC and standby utilities were powered down and/or minimised throughout the night to reduce energy consumption and avoid light exposure to collections items. Further efficiencies were achieved in 2024–25 through the introduction of LED cleaning lighting to museum galleries. Overall energy consumption in the reporting period was 7.38% per cent higher than in the prior reporting period.
- The Shrine utilises Microsoft SharePoint electronic document storage and retrieval system to protect document integrity and minimise the use of paper; this is a cloud-based computing solution reducing the requirement for on-site computing hardware thus minimising electrical costs and waste disposal of aged computer and server hardware. Redundant ICT equipment was e-recycled throughout the year.
- All internal communications, including committee and board meeting agenda and minutes, are distributed electronically to minimise the environmental footprint by reducing printer power, paper and ink consumption, and carbon emissions in transportation.
- Recycling bins are in all office areas to collect paper for re-use. Latex and Nitrile gloves are collected and where possible recycled. The Papercut software solution was implemented to assist our policy of minimising hard copy printing.
Local Jobs First
The Shrine of Remembrance adheres to the Local Jobs Act 2003.
Social Procurement
The Shrine of Remembrance undertook social procurement activities during the year with an aggregated spend of $6,987 with seven social benefit suppliers.
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