Environmental Sustainability Policy Report: Sydney Opera House

This report delves into the sustainability policies of the Sydney Opera House, a world-renowned multi-venue art center. The report begins with the vision, mission, and goals of the Opera House, which emphasize environmental and social responsibility. It then outlines various policies, including those focused on environmental sustainability, best practices in performance spaces, and cost implementation. The analysis covers the Sydney Opera House's environmental sustainability policy summary, highlighting its commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and conserving natural resources. The report also examines the implementation plan, including strategies for reducing energy waste, engaging employees, and communicating sustainability goals. The analysis includes the different plans and options for sustainability such as new printing services, launch of the internal greening of the house and usage of biodiesel. The report also considers the laws and regulations that the organization must adhere to in order to maintain and implement its sustainability policies. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of effective communication and employee engagement in achieving sustainability objectives. The report also contains the implementation plan made by the organization to achieve their sustainability goals and objectives.

Develop Policy

Table of Contents
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
Vision statement.....................................................................................................................1
Mission...................................................................................................................................1
Goal: ......................................................................................................................................1
Policies...................................................................................................................................1
Different polices made by the Sydney opera house...............................................................2
1. Sydney opera House environmental sustainability policy summary..................................2
2. Best models used in theatres and performance spaces.......................................................2
3. Cost implementation...........................................................................................................3
4 Policy plan and different option for sustainability..............................................................3
5 Sustainability policy for tiny opera company......................................................................3
6 Meeting with the business manager for discussion.............................................................4
7 Draft policy update..............................................................................................................4
8 Laws and legislation............................................................................................................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
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TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................10
Implementation plan ............................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

TASK 1
Sydney opera house is the multi venue art centre in the Sydney. It is the world famous
and distinctive buildings. They have formally opened on 20th October 1973 and being designed
by the architect Jørn Utzon. They have the building that change the image of entire country.
They have fusing both modernist and ancient influences which is situated at the site sacred to the
Gadigal people for thousands of years. Their structural elegance have made them one of the
symbol for twentieth century architecture. They also have google cultural institute where they
explore their entire history on more than 50 interactive online exhibition. With their visionaries,
architects, pragmatists, artists, engineers and idealists, they have made their building most
recognised in the 20th century.
Vision statement
To be most outstanding and eminent in performing their art centre in the globe.
Mission
 Their mission is to belong with everyone where they provide barrier free access, creating
the site and building and the experience they offer are access by every people.
 To be the best host in welcoming and inspiring the visitor with the help of outstanding
experience
Goal:
 Innovation in engaging the individual and community.
 Having the best Artistic experience
 Knowing the different competitors business.
 To access their whole target market
Policies
 To be the most social and environmental sustainable to maintain the brand name of the
Opera House status as the modern Art of Australia.
 To have impact on the larger environmental outcome in making contract the different
stakeholders.
 To involve employees, community ans their partners in the sustainability problems and
help them to take effective action collectively as well as individually.
 To maintain proper sustainability in communicating the strategies objective to their
various business in order to enhance and converse the value of world's heritage.
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Different polices made by the Sydney opera house
 To be the corporate memory, ensure proper knowledge and information are collected and
used to support the different daily activities and business strategies with maintaining
state, national and international heritage values.
 All the information and records are managed according to the State Records Act 1998
and other laws, standards, policies and other needs issued by NSW government.
 They are committed to ensure that all accurate and relevant data are recorded in all the
decision, operations and outcomes
 All the records are kept in the approved record keeping system so that there is no risk
arises in keeping the personal information.
1. Sydney opera House environmental sustainability policy summary
According to the Sydney opera House environmental sustainability policy statement, the
vision and mission state that they are concentrating more on the green environmental for the
coming generation of visitors, audience and artist. Their one example that is air conditioner
system which help them to reduce their green house emission and their key stakeholder that are
18 million people are attached to their mission. With that their theatre, restaurant and stores are
made in such way that they have become the leader in environmental sustainability commitment
in Australia. Their policy has the purpose that is contributing to conserve natural resources,
reduce waste and pollution. The outcome of their policy is that they have got the status of
Australian leading symbol for social and environmental sustainability. With that they have made
the aim is to deliver the strategic goals of their diverse business to conserve and enhance world's
heritage value
2. Best models used in theatres and performance spaces.
They have adopted the different system that have enhanced the consumption and
environmental practice. In order to do that they have change their lighting system which
previously consume large electricity and the new lighting system have reduced the consumption
of same. With the same they have launched the greening the house complain that reduce the cost
of energy and they lead to invest more on protecting the environment. The employee starting
turning off the light when it is not used, this lead to reduce in carbon emission. They have started
used the biodiesel generators that have reduced the energy consumption.
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3. Cost implementation
Illustration 1: Electricity consumption
(Source: Electricity consumption, 2010)
4 Policy plan and different option for sustainability
According to the above graph, it is state that the organisation is using the different plans
and option for sustainability that ate new printing services, launch of the internal greening of the
house and usage of biodiesel. This is made for the performance of the organisation to maintain
sustainability.
5 Sustainability policy for tiny opera company
 The plan includes
 Reduce gas usage by 4%
 Off-site electricity
 Proper waste system
 Broadening sustainability
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6 Meeting with the business manager for discussion
There are several areas were the organisation need to improve their performance in order
to meet the sustainability plans, that are as follows:
Gas usage: The company is using large amount of gas for the old air conditioning system so
they need to plan to reduce their gas usage by using the new air concentrating system.
Off-site electricity: the organisation should made new policy and use new of-site electricity
system such as turning off the light when it is not in use.
7 Draft policy update
With the old policy, they have high number of feedbacks which are related to the policies
and procedures, site and venues, security, rental and foods and websites. Which state the
organisation is successful in the influencing people internally but they are not able to affect the
people who are outside the organisation so they need to focus on the waste management recycle
management in order to maintain sustainability.
8 Laws and legislation
The organisation must be committed to the different laws and regulations in order to
maintain and implement sustainability policy such as conserving natural resources, reduce
pollution and waste, minimise green house gas emission and enhance natural environment.
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TASK 3
Implementation plan
There are different corporation policies made by the organisation such as to set, deliver
and communicate sustainability goals and execute that plan in every three years, maintenance of
clear accountabilities, monitor and access the performance of employer and employee to gain the
different standards, benchmarks and target. These policies can be implemented properly when
they organisation put efforts to protect the environment, not to produce large waste, use of
renewable resources, proper dumping of waste and well as they should communicate these
measure to the population so that they can also help the organisation to maintain and protect the
environment. The company should also support small scale industries by providing fund or such
technologies which help to reduce environmental pollution. The organisation have made two
objective that are reduced energy waste which includes fall in electricity use by 2% and gas use
by 4% and second objective are engaged and inspire which includes engaging staff in supporting
sustainability plans, communicate information and train employees and inspire audience to
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consider sustainability in everyday life. To implement these objective organisation need to use
such technologies which help them to reduce use of electricity and gas. With the help of new
techniques, company can protect the environment, they can train their employees and inspire the
customer to maintain proper environment condition (Crane and Matten, 2016).
When the resources is evaluated, organisation should use renewable resources which
reduce cost of procurement as well as it helps them to protect their environment. Energy is
mostly used by the workers in order to produce finish goods. Workers should help the
organisation to reduce the use of gas and electricity. They should be provides proper and
innovative techniques which help them to achieve this objective. Further, they should be
provided proper target for every three months for the use of resources, then create motivation
among the employees and they start reducing the use of resources. Other than that
communication also plays key role sustainability of the organisation. The company should
transfer and explain all the plans in proper way so that employee can implement those objective
in effective way (Lippiatt, 2017). The plans that are made by the organisation should be
presented in-front of employees because they are the only people who can achieve the company's
goal (Shiva, 2016). The questionnaire which is prepared by the organisation, reviewed that the
presentation have created better understanding about the sustainability policy of the Sydney
Opera House and it has engaged all the employees and create motivation to implement those
policies. It is being summaries that the organisation should use effective techniques in order to
reduce use of resources and communicate that plans to employees in order to motivate them to
achieve objectives.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journal
Crane, A. and Matten, D., 2016. Business ethics: Managing corporate citizenship and
sustainability in the age of globalization. Oxford University Press.
Lippiatt, B. C., 2017. BEES 3.0 Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability:
Technical Manual and User Guide. NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR)-6916.
Shiva, V., 2016. Earth democracy: Justice, sustainability and peace. Zed Books Ltd.
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