Posts Tagged: Sustainability
Hill Cross Supply Furniture to a London Homeless Shelter
With 20 years’ experience supplying furniture to the hospitality, healthcare and commercial markets, Hill Cross Furniture has become one of the leading UK and International suppliers of contract furniture. With a knowledgeable team working hard to ensure we deliver exceptional service that is tailored to each client’s needs, we offer a consultative approach that means… Read More >
Drawing Attention: The Digital Culture of Contemporary Architectural Drawings
Roca’s autumn exhibition examines the state of contemporary architectural drawing, revealing its potential to describe so much more than simply the detailing of a building’s construction. In what is now being referred to as the ‘postdigital era’ – a time when technology is so pervasive that it is the basis of all we create and… Read More >
GROHE sustainability at Bournemouth Air Festival
This summer, from Thursday 29th August to Sunday 1st September, GROHE will be making its debut at the UK’s largest air festival and well-loved family event, Bournemouth Air Festival. As a major event and stop off as part of its 2019 Truck Tour, GROHE will use the picturesque seaside setting to launch a campaign focused… Read More >
save! Smart sanitation for a sustainable future
Earlier this year at ISH in Frankfurt, Laufen presented the innovative Save! waste-separating WC, which is a sustainable new product that meets a little-known environmental problem of our time: the pollution of our water by nitrogen. The urine-separation WC Save!, designed by the Austrian design studio EOOS, functions like a conventional flushing toilet and contributes… Read More >
An International Decade for Water Action
The Water Action Decade was launched by the United Nations on World Water Day, 22 March 2018; with an objective of mobilising action that will help transform how we manage water and avert the 40% shortfall in freshwater resources predicted by 2030. This year we were given a stark reminder by Secretary-General, António Guterres of… Read More >
Hansgrohe welcomes Sustainability
All Hansgrohe products equipped with EcoSmart technology consume up to 60% less water than conventional products. This means you use less water and need less energy to heat the water – good news for the planet, and your wallet. How does it work? By cleverly adding air and helped by the use of a special… Read More >
Sustainability? We can all do more
I started in the exhibitions industry in the mid-90s, which was then something of a horror show in terms of sustainability. The over-riding culture was one of ‘build and burn’, with non-biodegradable materials off-loaded straight to landfill. Inspired to counter this, a founding principle of our business was to be sustainable in any way we… Read More >
Sustainable frames from Larson-Juhl
Larson-Juhl’s range of sustainable mouldings was recently expanded with the arrival of Geneva, which joins a number of other very popular collection of wooden frames that have environmental credentials. The natural worn-wood simplicity of Larson Juhl’s rustic-inspired Lancaster collection, offers a way to achieve real understated style. Named after the typical woodland landscape of Lancaster County… Read More >
Rio 2: Sustainable Production
Morgan, contract furniture designer and manufacturer, has combined skills and expertise with architect Mehran Gharleghi of studio INTEGRATE to launch Rio 2, a new collection of tables for the contract market that include 3D printed components. Here we introduce this collection and the sustainable nature of it’s design. The first of its kind within the… Read More >
GROHE driving force of digital transformation
GROHE, a leading global brand for complete bathroom solutions and kitchen taps, continues on its road to success in 2019. In the past year, BCFA member GROHE has evolved from a leading sanitaryware manufacturer into a global supplier of complete bathroom solutions and exciting kitchen tap and sink ranges, and has also become a driving… Read More >
Align expands City of London Workspace
For its second project for an Australian financial services group, Align was briefed to design 13,745 sq ft of new working, meeting, presentation and break-out space across 1.5 storeys of its client’s City of London offices to meet a period of sustained growth and house three company divisions, totalling 150-170 people. The brief was to… Read More >
GROHE awards winner of International Water Research
GROHE, a leading global brand for integrated bathroom solutions and kitchen taps and BCFA member, presented the award to the winner of the International Water Research Prize in Amsterdam at the World Architecture Festival (WAF). On behalf of her students, Belen Desmaison, teaching fellow of the Pontificia Catholic University of Peru (PCUP), received the prize money… Read More >
Look out for the new Trevira SINFINECO® labels on sustainable textiles
Trevira SINFINECO® is the new brand developed by Trevira. This label may be carried by all textiles that contain sustainable Trevira products. Sustainable, innovative, high-value and responsible – these are the values the new brand stands for. As an industrial enterprise, Trevira is conscious of its special responsibility for an intact environment and has long… Read More >