Sitting is the new smoking! Heady? Yes! It cannot be said enough: those who do not exercise enough are more likely to get sick:physically and mentally. And those who are sick are more likely to get better by keeping moving. That physical activity is important for your health was already known, but it is becoming increasingly clear how important. Sitting is unhealthy. More and more, sitting appears to be the new smoking, according to Professor Frank Backx, professor of sports medicine at the UMC Utrecht.

Combining healthy meetings and addressing waste problem.

At Sweco Arnhem they know all about it and are doing something about it! Healthy meetings are FUN, effective and suit the generation designing the cities of the future.To prevent participants from losing attention during a meeting, they are happy to do it differently now.

To contribute to reduce the waste problem in construction industry by using circular office equipment.

Sweco wants the circular economy and waste-free society to be visible in the organization.By using circular products made in the Netherlands and made from waste, Sweco contributes with its business operations to reducing waste and reducing the mountain of waste. It is a conscious choice to choose circular products because this reduces the CO2 footprint. With the PING PONG conference table, everyone learns in a playful way to look differently at materials and innovative constructions and this knowledge is applied back into its designs.

Made in the Netherlands from Dutch construction waste = CO2 negative

KRUIS PING PONG conference table is a circular product. Because table tennis is originally an English sport, the exact dimensions are determined in feet and inches. The official size of a table tennis table is 9 feet long (274 cm), 5 feet wide (152.5 cm) and 2 feet and 6 inches high (76 cm).

The material was upcycled from site waste and reused instead of thrown away.

Many materials on construction sites are thrown away unused or single-use. Value-full materials thus turn into worthless waste on an epic scale. 60 million tons of waste we produce together every year. 24% of this comes from the construction industry and is transported daily by road from warehouses to construction sites and from construction sites to waste processors. This causes enormous CO2 emissions. Only 4% is actually recycled. That has to change! It can be done differently!

At Sweco, they take waste-free cities seriously in developing the cities of the future.  

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