1. Our position
TechProf LTD recognises that the digital services industry has a meaningful environmental footprint — through data centre energy use, hardware lifecycle, business travel, and the systems we build for clients. We don't claim to have solved this. We're committed to measuring honestly, reducing where we reasonably can, and being transparent about progress and gaps.
2. Where our impact comes from
- Cloud infrastructure — the largest component of our operational footprint, used for client services and internal tooling.
- Hardware — laptops, displays, networking equipment for our team.
- Office — heat, light, equipment at our Surrey location.
- Travel — site visits, team gatherings, conferences.
- Indirect (Scope 3) — the systems we design and operate for clients, which we influence through technical choices.
3. What we're doing
Cloud and infrastructure
- Defaulting to cloud regions powered by renewable energy where service-level requirements permit.
- Right-sizing and auto-scaling production workloads. Idle resource sweeps run weekly.
- Architecture reviews include a sustainability lens — we challenge unnecessary always-on services and over-provisioned environments.
- For client engagements, we recommend regions and patterns that reduce embodied carbon where this aligns with their requirements.
Hardware
- Standard laptop refresh cycle is four years, not two — extending useful life materially reduces lifecycle emissions.
- End-of-life devices are wiped and donated to local schools and charities through partner schemes, or refurbished and resold via certified IT asset disposal providers.
- We don't issue branded merchandise that nobody wants.
Office and operations
- Our Chessington office is powered by a renewable electricity tariff.
- Remote-first working reduces commuting impact for the team.
- We measure and report on direct operational emissions annually.
Travel
- Default to remote meetings. Travel is justified per-trip, not as a default.
- Rail before air for any UK or short-haul European trip where time difference is under three hours.
- Team gatherings limited to twice yearly with a clear purpose.
4. Where we're not yet
To be candid:
- We don't currently publish a verified Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions inventory. We're working towards one for the next reporting cycle.
- We don't purchase carbon offsets. Our view is that reduction is more impactful than offsetting; we may revisit this for unavoidable residual emissions.
- We don't have a formal science-based target. Setting one is a 2026 commitment.
- We don't currently audit our cloud providers' renewable energy claims independently.
5. Working with our clients
The majority of the impact we have is through the systems we design for others. We work with clients to:
- Surface the carbon implications of architectural choices.
- Recommend efficient compute, storage, and network patterns.
- Build in observability for energy and carbon, not just cost.
- Advise on cloud regions, instance types, and scheduling that reduce footprint without compromising reliability.
6. Working with our suppliers
We assess our key suppliers on environmental and ethical criteria as part of vendor onboarding. Where suppliers fall short, we raise it; where they don't engage, we don't renew.
7. Governance
Sustainability is owned at director level. We review our position annually and update this statement to reflect what's changed.
8. Contact
If you have suggestions, requests, or concerns about our sustainability practices: sustainability@techprofessional.co.uk. We read everything that comes in.