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Here are 4 Sustainable Office Design Trends To Embrace In 2022

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28% of this derive from operational emissions – the carbon omitted by powering, heating and cooling a building – while 11% is a by-product of embodied emissions which are produced through the extraction, transportation, manufacturing, and assembly of the materials used to build, fit out and furnish a building.

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Considering An Office Renovation? Here’s Why You Should Keep Your Furniture

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Upcycling and sustainable furniture manufacturing can mitigate the significant landfill waste and carbon emissions from discarded office furniture. This strategy also eliminates the need for extensive transportation and production associated with manufacturing new furniture, further reducing carbon emissions.

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Apply now for Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators 2024

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  An outside panel of industry experts then assesses the finalists to help determine the top 100, while the editors compile category winners based on application scores.

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Lockers: The New Unexpected Star Of Workspace Design

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It’s important for product designers and retailers to understand their embodied carbon emissions , which relate to the manufacturing, processing, transportation, assembly, maintenance, replacement, and deconstruction and disposal of goods. 80% of Teknion’s component parts are manufactured in-house, they add. “For

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Going In Circles? Good!

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Designers encourage product manufacturers to include recycled content, lower VOCs, streamline manufacturing processes and track embodied carbon. The Carbon Leadership Forum defines embodied carbon as “greenhouse gas emissions arising from the manufacturing, transportation, installation, maintenance and disposal of building materials.”

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Swiss Post Offices – Lisbon

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Considered the best postal service in the world for the last six years, and operating in the communications, logistics, financial and passenger transport sectors, to carry out an outstanding design and build project in Lisbon. This project aimed to create a state-of-the-art office in Portugal for Swiss Post’s IT services.

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Kingfisher Offices – London

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A primary objective of the new Kingfisher office was decarbonisation, specifically reducing embodied carbon emissions from the interior fit-out through careful consideration of: raw material extraction, manufacturing and processing, transportation, installation of all building materials, replacement of materials, end of life, disposal and recycling.