As Sainbury’s moves towards a more eco-friendly face for their stores, the supermarket giant will be teaming up with Imperial College London to provide recycled water and heat for their customers’ residences. In London today, Justin King, CEO of Sainsbury’s, announced the move in a speech at BASE.
The partnership will see the supermarket work closely with the Faculty of Engineering and Grantham Institute for Climate Change in a collaboration which will last at least five years. The aim of the partnership will be to develop practical solutions for ways in which the supermarket chain can do their part to combat global climate change as well as help the supermarket dramatically reduce their carbon footprint.
Neil Sachdev, the commercial director at Sainsbury’s, stated that the partnership with Imperial London College will show customers that Sainsbury’s is committed to reducing their carbon footprint. He added that climate change needed bold action and leadership for positive change to be impacted.
Professor Nilay Shah at the Imperial College London, said that the team will work together with Sainsbury’s to develop engineering for low-carbon store concepts, and enable businesses to be able to respond to global climate change.
Sainsbury’s was responsible for opening the world’s first superstore to be low-energy back in September 1999 in Greenwich. The store’s design concept allows it to be 50 percent more energy efficient than its counterparts. Since 1999 the store has been updated making it an additional 20 percent more energy efficient.
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