Green Gown Awards 2013 - Sustainability Champion Award - Ian Brown - Highly Commended

Ian Brown, Building Services Manager, Bradford College

Ian Brown has driven the College’s vision to be a sustainable organisation at the heart of its community; identifying, developing andembedding new environmental schemes and practices. His personal drive and leadership has resulted in significant environmental and financial impacts; instilling passion and commitment within the team, College and community.

Ian is not only innovative, generating ideas on how the College can achieve its strategy, he has also formulated business plans to support these, and delivered them.

Through Ian, the College has a successful recycling facility and furniture reuse store – resulting in significant savings on landfill and replacement costs. Ian has also developed a new waste management strategy; requiring analysis of the waste generated by the College, the current disposal routes and adherence to legislative framework. This has led to new waste management processes being proposed.