MILLIGAN SUSTAINABILITY
Milligan seeks excellence in every aspect of its business and is committed to sustainability and minimizing the environmental impact of our retail development operations.
Sustainability is a vital part of our approach to retail property development planning because we believe that social and environmental well-being has important implications for our corporate reputation and long-term financial performance.
As a retail property developer, we want to ensure that our projects enrich urban communities by delivering social benefits and quality buildings while protecting and enhancing the natural environment. These aspirations also play a vital role in regeneration projects and their contribution to the long term success of urban development.
Milligan has established Sustainability Policy Guidelines which apply to all retail projects, whether new build, refurbishment or fit-out. These constitute practices which are designed to manage the risks associated with global warming and seek ways to future proof new developments for sustainability demands arising from climate change and the greenmarket.
Implementation of sustainable practices by the Milligan team has been achieved through the generation of a culture of social responsibility and a strategic policy decision to embrace the full environmental and economic contributors to sustainability as the key development planning drivers.
The ethos of Milligan is inspirational design elegance and the management of architectural design excellence through both careful adaptation of concept specification and selective choice of architect designers which are fundamental to every project.
Milligan has a unique approach to sustainable development. It has a fully integrated in-house retail development management team whose members recognize and respond to their important responsibility for the carbon footprint of any development throughout feasibility, marketing, design, construction, letting and occupation. We also believe that building design, flexibility and lifecycle costing, not solely the build cost, are important considerations.
In 2007 Milligan became a founder member of the ICSC ‘Sustainability Task Force’ made up of ICSC members across Europe to ensure that the industry is better informed of developments and to ensure an ongoing dialogue with EU policy makers.
The taskforce is introducing the BREEAM standard to ICSC member developers and Milligan is leading from the front by implementing a pilot project in Portugal using this standard.
John Naylor
Project Manager
Email john@milliganretail.com