Our Environment

Park Beach Plaza are committed to delivering a sustainable future for all our stakeholders and has seen a programme of developing improvements across the major areas of consumable activities. We are consistently looking for viable ways reducing our carbon footprint to the benefit of our customers, our staff and the environment.

WASTE MANAGEMENT
Park Beach Plaza has for a number of years run a paper and cardboard recycling programme in conjunction with retailers.  Retailers and staff are encouraged to sort their waste to minimise the volume of recyclable cardboard and paper from going to landfill.

Centre Management are currently exploring the introduction of a Co-Mix (recyclable metals, plastics and paper) and Biodegradable (food waste and vegetation) recyclable programme.

POWER / LIGHTING / WATER
Park Beach Plaza management have commenced installation of sensor lighting in areas of our facility where minimal usage is experienced.  The sensor lights turn on as soon as someone enters certain areas of our facilities but turn back off automatically after a period of non use.

Our external lighting is set to come on only in periods of low light, through the use of photo electronic sensors. After core trading hours, certain areas of lighting are reduced to security lighting only.

The Centres Air Conditioning network has been undergoing significant upgrades over the past 2 years with ongoing plans to continue throughout the remainder of the centre.

Did you know that Park Beach Plaza has not used cooling tower cooling technology for over 10 years, saving millions of litres of water per year?

Part of the upgrades have seen the introduction of closed water loop cooling techniques, in conjunction with Variable Speed Driven compressors & Air Handling Units and individual VAV’s (Variable Air Volume Controllers) to each new store fitout This allows the centres Building Management System to deliver cool air to each store area on an on demand basis, providing further improvements in energy consumption efficiencies.

Park Beach Plaza are also in the process of designing new amenities for our customers that will not only provide vastly improved fresh & modern facilities but will also have environmentally sensitive applications such as sensor taps, new improved more water efficient toilets and urinals.  Further to this are investigations into the introduction of using rain water as well as water captured from air conditioning condensation for the amenities flushing system, further reducing the centres impact on the town water supply.

MARKETING
Administration procedures are constantly being reviewed to allow us to provide more sustainable operating opportunities.

Opportunities such as providing the choice for our clients and contractors to receive electronic invoicing and payments over mailed out paper copies.  This programme reduces our need to provide paper versions of documents, reducing our consumption of paper products.