Making Your Office Fitout Eco-Friendly

If you’re looking for ways to add more sustainability in your office refurbishment or fit out, there are plenty to take advantage of especially in the modern day and it doesn’t need to break your budget, there’s so many ways to make your office more eco friendly even on the tightest budget.

We’re sharing some of the best ways you can incorporate more sustainability and environmentally friendly designs into your office fit out.

EMBRACE NATURAL LIGHTING

Natural lighting is one of the easiest ways to develop a more environmentally friendly workplace in so many ways.

By developing an office design that embraces natural lighting you can improve the wellbeing, productivity and motivation of your employees, as well as having the advantage of minimising the use of artificial lighting in your workplace over the year, and will not only reduce your carbon footprint but will save your business money in the long run on electricity.

PURCHASE REFURBISHED OR RECYCLED FURNITURE

Thanks to the development of the movement to make offices and businesses more environmentally friendly, the quality of refurbished or recycled office furniture has reached new heights, with many brands also incorporating recycled materials into the development of their new furnishings.

Using refurbished furniture is not only eco-friendly, but can also, again, save you money in the long run compared to buying brand new furnishings for your office space.

UTILISE RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES

Green power sources have never been easier to take advantage of in the modern office, especially if you have the facilities to allow a lot of natural lighting into the office. Solar power is becoming one of the most popular ways for businesses to become more environmentally conscious and act on it, by either adding solar panels to the building itself or finding ways to make solar power accessible from inside the office using natural lighting opportunities where available to power up electricals in your office.

GO PAPERLESS

Going paperless is one of the easiest ways to incorporate a more sustainable office environment and has so many benefits outside of the eco-friendly advantages. It can be a much more organised and efficient way to send, file and store your important documents, and the space saving possibilities are endless when it comes to storage for paper documents, meaning you can design a much more organised office environment for your employees to work in.

GET BIOPHILIC WITH YOUR DESIGN

Whether it is as simple as adding a plant to every desk in the office, or going as far as having large plant walls, adding biophilic design into your office refurbishment can be extremely beneficial to your employees and the working environment in general.

Plants produce oxygen, cancelling out chemicals in the air from office furniture and resources, making the office a cleaner, happier and more productive environment for everybody to work in.