Zoë Delano, Sustainability Lead, and Janae Featherstone, Sustainability Advisor, take pride in their roles in this team, working hard to help the business achieve their sustainability goals.
“I am proud of the time and resources Autex Acoustics has been willing to invest in sustainability. Becoming a sustainable business does not happen overnight, it requires a considerable amount of investment and buy in from all parties. We go above and beyond the legal requirements for a business of our nature and aim to have a positive impact on the wider industry, encouraging others to follow in our footsteps,” Janae says.
Day to day, the team’s work can look incredibly different. “Our time might be spent working alongside design on innovative sustainable material and product system developments one day to understanding our company-wide energy usage, or emissions in our supply chain the next,” Zoë explains.
“We want to be informed and confident in the materials we are using, advocating for their adoption, and leading the industry toward better alternatives. I’ve seen a shift in our mindset and aspirations over the years. While we’ve always been ambitious in our environmental goals, we’re now envisaging what our business and industry looks like beyond sustainability, and towards regenerative systems; how businesses might exist reciprocally with nature,” Zoë says.
“My main driver is the desire to see positive change in the world. Working in the sustainability industry can often be disheartening, we need to see big changes happening globally to mitigate climate change and biodiversity loss. However, at Autex Acoustics we tackle these issues through a lens of hope and a desire to change both the system and people’s attitudes. Working on sustainability initiatives within the construction industry is particularly rewarding because the scope for positive change is so vast,” Janae adds.
