Leading developer British Land estimate that office fit-outs account for 60 – 80% of a building’s whole-life embodied carbon, driven largely by frequent churn of fixtures and fittings.
As a result, the company is challenging project teams to cut embodied carbon by 66% against current industry benchmarks through its new Sustainability Brief: Office Fit Out.
Our MagTabs® feature in the brief as a Design for Disassembly case study – highlighted as a more circular alternative to glued plywood sub-bases on raised access floors.
Kingdom Street Case Study
The brief features a commercial office refit project at 2 Kingdom Street, London. Often described as “West London’s best kept secret”, the offices next to Paddington station are state-of-the-art and brimming with quality facilities.
Tarkett Luxury Vinyl Tiles and Milliken carpet tiles were installed onto the used metal raised access flooring using MagTabs to enable future reuse of both the sub-floor and flooring itself.
Our project whitepaper calculated that this approach saved over £19,000 in future sub-floor remediation costs, as well as avoiding approximately 6,000 kg CO2 through clean uplift and reuse.
For the flooring category, the brief also specifies no chemical fixings (glues), greater use of bio-based alternatives and costed embodied-carbon options at tender stage.
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