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Public Health Wales (PHW) is the national public health agency in Wales. In 2016, they decided to relocate nine smaller satellite offices into one new, large 4,700 m2 open plan office in central Cardiff. To do this, PHW released a tender for the design of office space and supply of furniture.
PHW decided to include a series of sustainability requirements as part of the tender, and included an inventory of all furniture which was owned by the organization. The winning bid came from a consortium of a sustainable office design service, and a community interest company.
In the end, out of the 2.563 items used in the new office 45% of items were re-used, 49% were remanufactured, and only 6% of items were sourced from new stock.
In total, it is estimated that by re-using available resources, 41 tonnes of waste were diverted from landfill, and the project saved around 134 tonnes of CO2.