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JPA Workspaces and BRE work together
on sustainable office refurbishment
Leading supplier of sustainable design, re-location and furnishing solutions, JPA Workspaces has recently completed a refurbishment in conjunction with BRE in Garston which kept sustainable principles at its core.
This was achieved by JPA
working closely with BRE to maximise existing furniture resources through their range of circular services. JPA help clients buy better and use longer, reducing furniture carbon and waste.
Existing stock was integrated into new layouts and designs, topped up with new as needed. New furniture was sourced from audited, ethical manufacturers who share the same ESG values, ensuring greater supply chain impact. JPA’s Head of Sustainability, Fiona Edwards, says: “Reducing carbon and saving money can go hand-in-hand. The more of your old furniture that can be reused as part of the new scheme, the further your budget will go. Providing solutions which help clients reduce furniture-related carbon and furniturerelated waste is at the heart of JPA’s operation, services and products.” “Our most recent project at BRE in Garston completed in April 2022 is a great example of this. It was designed by ethical architectural practice Fielden Clegg Bradley Studios. The vision was to demonstrate a responsible approach to procurement by working as many of the existing furniture items back into the project as possible. It also had to look great and work for the users.” “The project involved clearing two floors of furniture, working closely with BRE to establish which items could be kept and reworked into the new floorplans for 120 users. The primary goals were to reduce the embodied carbon footprint of the refurbishment by 50% and to eliminate 100% redundant furniture landfill through materials recycling and/or community rehoming.” “Our teams cleared redundant items, recycling 637 unwanted furniture items, diverting 21,566kg from landfill. The refurbishment itself saw 60 desk frames re-worked and re-topped, 75 chairs reupholstered using recycled polyester from used plastic bottles, and a further 120 assorted lockers, tables and chairs re-worked back into the new scheme, generating financial savings of at least 25% over new furniture items.”
