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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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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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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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False Information in UK Package Inserts for Antidepressants About a Chemical Imbalance

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I looked up a PIL this month for citalopram from one manufacturer , and the text was These medicines help to correct certain chemical imbalances in the brain that are causing the symptoms of your illness. ” Two months later, the MHRA responded.

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Could 3D Printing Be The Future Of Sustainable Workspace Design?

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The collection was designed in collaboration with Pearson Lloyd , Bene’s long-standing design partners, and manufactured by the London-based eco startup, Batch.Works. bFRIENDS’ designs reflect the layer-by-layer 3D printing manufacturing process (Photography: Alex Sarginson).

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The job search is taking longer than it used to

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Hiring is still robust in sectors like healthcare, manufacturing, and transportation, for example.) The slower rate of hiring of unemployed workers is not necessarily reflected in the overall unemployment rate, which has remained relatively low at 4.2% despite inching up slightly in 2024.