Socotec Award
July 23rd 2024
On 20th June 2024, two members of our Earthworks and Aggregates team were invited to the SOCOTEC Summer Environmental Conference. Go Green have a long-standing working partnership with SOCOTEC as we often utilise them for soil and oil water testing on behalf of our customer basis.
The conference featured an Awards portion which we were lucky enough to have taken part in. Go Green were nominated, and won, the SOCOTEC Environmental Heroes Award for our Environmental Regeneration and Sustainability Case Study.
Our submission featured a case study which was created for one of our customers, Watkin Jones, who we have worked alongside for 7 years. In more recent times we have strengthened our relationships by integrating social value into the projects we are awarded. The case study we submitted focused on an EcoHeroes session which has been developed through our GROWW Sustainability Framework. The session was carried out in April 2023, at Monks Coppenhall Academy in Crewe, a school local to a live project of Watkin Jones. Throughout the day, Go Green’s social value team and Watkin Jones’ Environmental Manager delivered 3 Eco Heroes sessions to 500 students from the primary school.
Academy Feedback:
“Go Green Eco Heroes visited Monks Coppenhall to deliver their assembly to encourage us to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle for Earth Day. The children particularly enjoyed taking part in the quiz where they had to choose whether to Reduce, Reuse or Recycle each item. Since the visit from Go Green and Watkin Jones, the Eco-Council have been busy completing the task Go Green Eco Heroes set them to make posters to encourage the rest of the school to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. One of the members said, ‘There is only one Earth and you can’t recycle the whole Earth!“
Emma McNeil, Science Coordinator – Monks Coppenhall Academy
