Circular office

Offices are increasingly furnished with recycled furniture. Why is this important and how does it work in practice?

At the headquarters of the cleaning company CSU, there are green and white tables in the meeting rooms that are made from their own used hoovers. At PostNL, eighty workstations were made from 1,700 kg of old postal packages. And at KLM, the typical blue uniforms were used to make tables and chairs. These are just some of the so-called circular workplaces that Marc van der Heijden (48) with his company TRIBOO and Dennis Teeuw (28) with his company Planq have made.

The demand for circular office furniture of this kind is on the rise, notes both Teeuw and Van der Heijden, and Ramon Beijen (44), Creative Director at property consultancy CBRE. Companies have long considered circularity important, but the corona pandemic has accelerated it, says Beijen. Companies are reorienting themselves. They don't want everything spic and span new anymore, that's the wrong image to have on the market. Sustainable and climate-conscious, that's what companies want to be. According to Beijen, manufacturers have woken up to the fact that the current business model of producing as much as possible is no longer tenable. In addition, the aesthetic ideal of interior architects is changing in the direction of sustainability and circularity.

Read the whole interview here

https://www.ewmagazine.nl/economie/achtergrond/2021/11/circulair-kantoor-hoe-werkt-dat-1836w

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