There is about 1,7 million office workers and millions of quarter meters office space in Finland. People spend most of their time in these spaces and in this sense office buildings are a big consuming units in regards for example energy and waste. Finding ways of making the office life more ecological can truly make a difference not only in being more environmental friendly but as what comes to money as well. Usually being ecological means saving in materials and energy and this way it can save a lot of money as well.
Probably the earliest ecological movement concerning office work was the idea of paperless office. This is realized in many practices of the office work – for example billing and payments can be done electronically, and the whole accounting (in Finnish = kirjapito)can be done on the computer screen instead of printing receipts and sending out paper sheet. Computers and internet have made it more easier to save paper and this way reduce the cutting down of the forests, but there has emerged an other end to this as well – computers use a lot of energy.
Office buildings are one of the biggest energy consumers around in working life in the urban environment when excluding big industry plants. Energy efficient constructions are a novelty of 2010´s and lot of office buildings are built in 70´s and 80´s. In those times there wasn´t lot of attention payed on the energy and especially for example the leakages of heating. However the new construction specifications which are composed in European Union and which will be valid in future in Finland as well will take these things into account. In old office building for example changing the windows will effect on energy consuming. The electricity bill can be reduced as well by simply remembering to shut off printers, computer screens and lights in the end of the day.
Probably the earliest ecological movement concerning office work was the idea of paperless office. This is realized in many practices of the office work – for example billing and payments can be done electronically, and the whole accounting (in Finnish = kirjapito)can be done on the computer screen instead of printing receipts and sending out paper sheet. Computers and internet have made it more easier to save paper and this way reduce the cutting down of the forests, but there has emerged an other end to this as well – computers use a lot of energy.
Office buildings are one of the biggest energy consumers around in working life in the urban environment when excluding big industry plants. Energy efficient constructions are a novelty of 2010´s and lot of office buildings are built in 70´s and 80´s. In those times there wasn´t lot of attention payed on the energy and especially for example the leakages of heating. However the new construction specifications which are composed in European Union and which will be valid in future in Finland as well will take these things into account. In old office building for example changing the windows will effect on energy consuming. The electricity bill can be reduced as well by simply remembering to shut off printers, computer screens and lights in the end of the day.
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