Our home in the Pacific Northwest is a ground zero for new ways of thinking about sustainable living, working and making things. We've seen the writing on the wall, and it says this is important-now. That's why we've instituted many practices to significantly improve the sustainability of our company. This means a lot of things: giving back to our community; providing our employees with a good living and professional fulfillment; reducing the carbon footprint of our own operation (30% in just one year); and staying abreast of-and representing-the latest in environmentally-friendly workspace designs. In this vein, Knoll and DIRTT Environmental Solutions continue to lead the industry. We believe a sustainable workspace solution should mean more than just recycled materials. It should reduce operating cost, support the people in the space, and eliminate waste. We support this by offering modular/reusable furniture, walls, floors and power. The logical approach is a holistic interior solution that can change with a customer, eliminating any waste to a landfill. Our commitment is practiced in several other ways:

We prefer manufacturing partners who are or who use:

We’ve even documented our own carbon footprint so we have a
baseline from which we can constantly strive to improve.

Design Approaches:

Our LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) accredited professionals use the latest research on the workspace and bring these ideas and solutions to our customers. We encourage the use of modularity to eliminate any waste due to reconfiguration and the build-out of spaces. When we can, we encourage design with daylight and views to connect people to the outdoors. To encourage use of a smaller real estate footprint we use the latest product designs to provide a smaller workspace with increased efficiency. In our planning process we use electronic tools to eliminate paper and transportation for meetings. With use of video-teleconferencing and web browsers we can bring the meeting to our customers anywhere.

Installation:

Eliminating wasteful packaging is key, along with installing during daylight hours. When we can we eliminate all throwaway packaging materials in favor of reusable packaging. Working with our clients prior to installation we encourage recycling of any old furniture product, and assist them with the removal, recycling, or repurposing of existing "stuff". We are amazed to find how many clients realize they have too many staplers, and too many pendaflex folders. We try to make it easy to be green in every way.

We also have many manufacturing partners that are committed to sustainable
practices and furniture design/manufacturing. Included are: