EFLA’s Environmental Vision
Environmental management
EFLA is developing and continues to work in an evironmentally friendly way. Among the firms that merged to form EFLA, Linnuhonnun had already conformed to accredited ISO 14001 standards from the beginning of 2006, which means that the daily operation of the Company as well as all consultation has conformed to environmentally accepted principles. The Icelandic Ministry of the Environment presented Linuhonnun with its Environmental Award, the Shell, in 2006. The merged company EFLA continues to follow environmentally sound management.
EFLA’s recognized management system includes analysis and assessment of the main operational factors affecting the environment and guards against any environmentally negative results. The factors in the Company’s operations and internal functioning that can be environmentally sensitive include: use of electricity, heat and cold water; paper and printing inks; employee job transportation; waste products (sorting of waste products for recycling and destruction); and hazardous materials (list of all materials, specifying treatment, storage and disposal for recycling or destruction, policy formulation to reduce use). Consultation provided includes a checklist of the main environmental factors for each type of project with indications on how to limit the environmental effects. Sub-contractors receive instructions on environmental management, as appropriate. Each year EFLA presents a green accounting overview of the results of its operations in terms of the main environmental factors involved.
Environmental consulting
EFLA offers wide-ranging consulting about environmental concerns. The Company has a strong marketing division (Environment) that is made up of of 5 service divisions: Environmental Problems, Nature Protection, Planning Concerns, Geotechnical Engineering and Geology, and Land Use. The Company’s services cover most environmental factors such as the environmental design of construction, installation of high tension lines so that they conform well to the landscape, how to reduce waiting time and air pollution in transportation, design of bicycle lanes, monitoring of gas from disposal sites and air pollution in tunnels, consultation on environmentally sound purchase of companies, building up of certified environmental management systems in firms and municipalities, Life Cycle Asessments (LCA) ecological analyses for handling and recycling of waste products, and plans for the protection and preservation of the natural environment, to name a few. The Company also carries out research and developments projects such as the utilisation of waste products in fish processing and the manufacture of valuable products, new methods to assess the visual effects of construction projects, limiting of power use in industrial housing, the environmental effect of street lighting and other outdoor lighting, and research on the ecological cost of construction (LCC).
EFLA is developing and continues to work in an evironmentally friendly way. Among the firms that merged to form EFLA, Linnuhonnun had already conformed to accredited ISO 14001 standards from the beginning of 2006, which means that the daily operation of the Company as well as all consultation has conformed to environmentally accepted principles. The Icelandic Ministry of the Environment presented Linuhonnun with its Environmental Award, the Shell, in 2006. The merged company EFLA continues to follow environmentally sound management.
EFLA’s recognized management system includes analysis and assessment of the main operational factors affecting the environment and guards against any environmentally negative results. The factors in the Company’s operations and internal functioning that can be environmentally sensitive include: use of electricity, heat and cold water; paper and printing inks; employee job transportation; waste products (sorting of waste products for recycling and destruction); and hazardous materials (list of all materials, specifying treatment, storage and disposal for recycling or destruction, policy formulation to reduce use). Consultation provided includes a checklist of the main environmental factors for each type of project with indications on how to limit the environmental effects. Sub-contractors receive instructions on environmental management, as appropriate. Each year EFLA presents a green accounting overview of the results of its operations in terms of the main environmental factors involved.
Environmental consulting
EFLA offers wide-ranging consulting about environmental concerns. The Company has a strong marketing division (Environment) that is made up of of 5 service divisions: Environmental Problems, Nature Protection, Planning Concerns, Geotechnical Engineering and Geology, and Land Use. The Company’s services cover most environmental factors such as the environmental design of construction, installation of high tension lines so that they conform well to the landscape, how to reduce waiting time and air pollution in transportation, design of bicycle lanes, monitoring of gas from disposal sites and air pollution in tunnels, consultation on environmentally sound purchase of companies, building up of certified environmental management systems in firms and municipalities, Life Cycle Asessments (LCA) ecological analyses for handling and recycling of waste products, and plans for the protection and preservation of the natural environment, to name a few. The Company also carries out research and developments projects such as the utilisation of waste products in fish processing and the manufacture of valuable products, new methods to assess the visual effects of construction projects, limiting of power use in industrial housing, the environmental effect of street lighting and other outdoor lighting, and research on the ecological cost of construction (LCC).