LEED-ING THE WAY

The environmental performance of the Montreal offices of Air Transat has been recognised by Corporate Responsibility magazine for a second successive year.

The holiday travel airline was the first Canadian company to receive LEED-EB (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design – Existing Building) Platinum certification for its headquarters which in recent years has become home to a solar wall on the west façade of a hangar, leading to a 30 per cent saving in annual natural gas consumption.

It has also shifted to LED lighting, enabling electricity savings of 1.15 million KWh per year, installed free electric-vehicle charging stations and introduced recycling and composting programmes, ensuring that 72% of total waste is now diverted from landfill and treated responsibly.

The company also donated all left-over food from its restaurant to the women’s support organisation Le Chaînon.