As part of the o-vert launch event, team members were encouraged to share their individual wishes for a greener Omicron:

  • Electronic filing system
  • No plastic utensils at catered lunches
  • Print double sided
  • Submit our HRDC paperwork online
  • Small workout area/change room
  • Use less paper around the office
  • More foliage in office
  • Discourage employees from wasting paper
  • Office composting
  • Be more conscious of documents that get printed
  • Specify as many green products as possible
  • 4-day work weeks to reduce commuting
  • Environmentally friendly cleaning products
  • All LCD monitors to be turned off at the end of the day
  • Get rid of individual sugar packets with one big bowl of sugar in coffee areas
  • Use 100% recycled paper for everything
  • Use the stairs!
  • Bring a travel mug when you purchase coffee
  • Hybrid cards for site visits
  • Use video conferencing to reduce travel
  • Work from home 1 day a week
  • Find a way to be able to turn off work stations at the end of the day
  • Turn off computers at the end of the day
  • Composting program
  • Find a way to recycle products from the sample library
  • That we use electronic checksets for drawing (DWF writer)
  • Hybrid company cars
  • Less staple more paperclips
  • Less faxing more emailing!
  • Archiving old job files on CD to reduce paper
  • Limit the use of fax transmittals
  • More secure bike lock up and change rooms
  • Set up a office carpool system
  • Find a way that if you are working overtime that you can just light your area
  • Have clients accept PDF versions of change orders. Eliminating paper and couriers!
  • Fewer abandoned printouts
  • Not having new garbage bags each day
  • Less paper in the archiving process
  • Set all computers to turn off at night!
  • More green information available and more staff participation
  • Get rid of stir sticks; use a spoon. Plastic bag recycling
  • A pop up button that will come up before you plot asking if you really need to plot
  • Replace all halogen lamps with CFL fixtures
  • Print only what you need to and pick up your print jobs
  • Find a better, more efficient way to purge the sample room
  • That we design to live and work sustainably
  • Force clients and trades to accept more electronic documents
  • Only print when necessary
  • No more Styrofoam ever, turn off your monitors. Everyone take initiative!
  • Hybrid service trucks
  • No individual sugar packages and replace milk cartons with a recyclable material
  • Less wasted paper at the Xerox and printers
  • Make clients more aware of greener options
  • Go paperless for Sis, CLNs etc.
  • Use scrap paper for sketching and notes
  • An extensive library of sustainable building practices ranging from design of building envelopes to interior finishes and light bulbs
  • Make Omicron the green landmark for Vancouver
  • Less long distance travel
  • Electronically lobby provincial government to use the new carbon tax money to develop alternative green energy sources instead of just giving it back to consumers
  • Less paper consumption
  • No more Starbucks paper coffee cups
  • All company cars should be hybrids
  • I want to do my LEED exam
  • To significantly reduce paper consumption by working more with digital information
  • Only biodegradable detergents for office including hand soap and dishwasher soap
  • That all colleagues implement green practices (as much as it may change your usual routine) change is good, accept it or we won’t have a clean place to live in the future.
  • We are all here to create a world in which the beauty of what is true is more powerful than the illusion of what is false
  • More paperless documents, no more disposable plates in the kitchen
  • Al’s clean burning fuel; all you need is a match!
  • With our ambition of growing the company to a much larger scale, we will need a larger floor plate of office area. I suggest we design and build our own stand alone building that would set a new standard for the commercial office buildings currently being built right now we could design it to be 150% efficient, meaning that our carbon foot print would be giving back to the environment; instead of taking away.