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Our EnvironmentWe are proud to have maintained ourEnviro-Mark® NZ Gold status in 2012and have taken further steps to helpreduce our impact on the environment.We believe that even small improvements make a big difference.Introducing microfibre cleaning technology at both Church Streetand Petone campuses helped reduce our use of chemicals. Joininga light bulb recycling plan and replacing all our bulbs to ones that lastup to 400 percent longer further reduced our waste to landfill.We continued to act on advice from our energy managementcompany, which identified incremental savings we could make. In2012 this included changing our energy supplier to take advantageof the first all-of-government supply agreement. We ensured thatthe new hospitality facility in Wellington has built in energy efficiencyfeatures.We continued to work with Greater Wellington Regional Council ontravel initiatives and the bus service between Porirua and Petoneachieved critical mass in 2012.We continued with our seismic strengthening programme with asignificant work program in 2012. This included strengthening CBlock and replacement of the roof on A Block. Work on the T Blockcafé and Learning Commons area and the stairwells in T Block andChurch Street was approved to go ahead in 2013 and the Councilapproved a re-allocation of $2.55 million of capital funding from the2012 budget to undertake this work.Student contributes tosustainabilityVictoria Walch, a Bachelor of Engineering Technologygraduate in 2012, majored in civil engineering andcompleted a project on raw water management of theWaiwhetu stream in the Hutt Valley for her degree. Victoriais looking forward to a career in civil engineering.Seismic strengthening in C Block46 | WELLINGTON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY