{"id":1328,"date":"2021-05-06T09:12:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T08:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.green-tourism.com\/2024\/03\/13\/our-meeting-and-events-green-story-church-house-westminster\/"},"modified":"2024-03-18T12:26:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T12:26:29","slug":"our-meeting-and-events-green-story-church-house-westminster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.green-tourism.com\/2021\/05\/06\/our-meeting-and-events-green-story-church-house-westminster\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Meeting and Events Green Story : Church House Westminster"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As an eco-friendly venue, we are committed to operating in a sustainable manner.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When our new Head of Facilities, Hugh Allcock-Green, recently joined Church House Westminster,<\/a> he immediately recognised that going waterless would provide us with substantial benefits in terms of water efficiency, maintenance, and costs, and ultimately the environment.\u00a0 So, one of his first projects was tackling the traditional water-based urinals in the building.<\/p>\n

The challenge we faced is that we have 72 urinals which all flush several times a day, consuming an estimated 7\u00bd million litres of water every year. In terms of cost, this equates roughly to \u00a31 a day per urinal in water. Moreover, that is not the only cost once ongoing maintenance and cleaning are added on. Subsequent hygiene issues tend to block pipes which in turn cause flooding. Then there is the environmental cost. Flushing the urinals waste thousands of litres of water and produce carbon dioxide in the process.<\/p>\n

So in February 2021 all our urinals were changed so now they do not use water. This will not only save enough water to fill 3 Olympic-sized swimming pools every year! Other benefits include:<\/p>\n