Sustainable business: Buildings are the largest single source of CO2 emissions

Yvette Watson (37) and ending in 2019, at number two in the ABN AMRO sustainable in the top fifty, and this year was nominated for the award. She is a co-founder of the PHI-Factory, is that companies and organizations are in a circle will help. What does this mean, and what inspires these entrepreneurs?

Sustainability is that Watson is in the blood, since they are at a young age in a variety of green goals, while chasing after. They have campaigned for Greenpeace, WWF, and the Animals, and walked over to her with homemade signs to wave. Born from a family of entrepreneurs she was also of the firm belief that you, yourself, have an impact on your own happiness and success.

After two years of service in the industry, he made Watson, in 2016, the switch to self-employment. With a PHI-Factory, as it helps the organisations to keep their building, purchasing, and facilities management to complete a circle, to make. The timing turned out to be good.

"I wanted to be a private company with a focus on sustainability, but it is best not to do this on my own, because I like to be together and do things. The meeting with my business partner, Geerke Versteeg, turned out to be a bull's-eye: Geerke, and I just had to right click, and in less than a week later, we started to develop our ondernemersidee."

"We will pursue the same objectives, but to complement each other as well. Where I can be creative and analytical, is, on the contrary, highly structured and result-oriented. What was also helpful was that they had access to a large network of the government, and I'm in business."

“the Buildings, with 35 per cent of the world's largest source of CO2 emissions in the process.”

Yvette Watson, PHI-Factory, < / p>

"The services that we provide are divided into three units. Consulting is focused on advising on matters such as the construction industry, and the circular sourcing projects were, but also of strategy and training sessions, and in the form of a so-called "circular alliances'."

"Then we have a calculator, such as CO2, carbon footprint calculator, which we used with a variety of instruments, and the impacts of products measurable and be able to make it. The third unit of an online serious game and interactive platform that allows individual employees within an organisation to enable you to contribute to the sustainable development objectives."

"We'll focus on the built environment. Buildings are responsible for about 30 per cent of the waste of the raw material and 35 per cent of the world's largest source of CO2 emissions in the process. We have to consider the building as an architectural work of art, or a static object, but as an object to be used. This is the added value it can provide to the staff, and the social functions of the organization."

“We have to have a job description so that the focus is on the more masculine aspects of it came to be.”

Yvette Watson, PHI-Factory, < / p>

"It's funny that you asked me that question. We strive to be correct is constantly looking for diversity, because we are very important to them. However, we have all the time, but one man on board had, but this was not always the same person. In one way or another, we got responses from a very strong female candidates."

"Just in time for the coronacrisis, we had two vacancies to be turned off. An expert has warned, when we had our one of women is much more appealing than their male counterparts. The qualities that the candidates should bring along with were focused on working together, enthusiasm, connection, and omgevingssensitiviteit. We have found the text so that the emphasis is on the more masculine aspects of it came to be. The desired result: a very good male candidates! Unfortunately, it broke down and then with the crisis, and we have a vacancy for a moment on hold to set."