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The Good Practice Guide to Implementing a Sustainability Policy
British Institute of Facilities Management
Number One Building The Causeway Bishop’s Stortford Hertfordshire CM23 2ER Tel: 0845 0581356 Email: psc@bifm.org.uk Web: www.bifm.org.uk Publications sub-committee Chair: Dr Bob Anderson BIFM(Qual) Members: Stephen Bennett, Richard Byatt, Graham Briscoe and Cathy Hayward Author:Roberto Valle Kinloch with the BIFM’s Sustainable FM research project team: Abbas Elmualim, Marios Pastou, Sunil Shah and Gordon Ludlow Reviewer: Liz Kentish (Liz Kentish Coaching Ltd) member, BIFM Sustainability special interest group Series editor: Dr Bob Anderson BIFM(Qual), chairman, BIFM Publications sub-committee This guide is available in different formats – for details call 020 7880 6226

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