UKREiiF (The UK’s Real Estate Investment and Infrastructure Forum) has successfully retained their ISO20121 Event Sustainability Management Accreditation which it gained after the inaugural 2022 event following a site visit at their annual event – receiving zero non-compliances from the official auditors investigation.

The accreditation looks to mitigate the impact events have on resources, society and the environment – ensuring the event is delivered as sustainability as possible, whilst ensuring a positive social impact is generated. In addition to the ISO Accreditation UKREiiF also generated £2.25m in Social Impact and £12.1m in local economic benefits reports from Loop and ARUP have stated.

For a second year UKREiiF worked with Becky Toal and the team at Crowberry Consulting – an environment, ethics and corporate responsibility management consultancy as well as Tim Platts of TP Professional Services who focus on business transformation, efficiency and improvement.

UKREiiF worked tirelessly in the build up to and during the event to ensure the accreditation audit was a success, with improvements including the introduction of generators powers by vegetable oil instead of petrol, better management of on-site recyclable goods, a charter which looked to put emphasis on sponsors to reduce single plastic items in the exhibition hall and introduction of a car-sharing scheme within the office.

Keith Griffiths, Chief Executive Officer at UKREiiF, said: “I’d like to say a huge thanks to our internal ISO delivery group for working closely with the operations team to deliver such a successful on-site audit at UKREiiF. We’ve made over 35 major changes and implementations over the past 12 months to further out standing as a sustainable event platform. It’s another example of how UKREiiF is looking to lead the way, not by giving lip service to topics such as sustainability, but actually taking action to measure and improve what we’re doing, and this can only be done by being transparent and open about what we’re doing.”