Office Design in a Sustainable Environment

What is sustainable office design?

Sustainable office design and environment is to build an office to the highest quality and functional standard, with maximum environmental and social benefit and with cost assessments that reflect the whole office interior life cycle such that investment can be properly maintained.



Features of a sustainable office:

• Meets the functional needs of the organisation / company, the users and the wider community

• Recognizes people as the most important assets of any organisation / company

• Enhances the work environments through healthy and vibrant internal environments including excellent levels of natural light and ventilation with personal control and with quality external environments that facilitate outdoor activities

• Does not endanger the health of the occupants through exposure to pollutants, the use of toxic materials or providing host environments to harmful organisms

• Use renewable and recycled and recyclable resources and materials wherever possible.

• Uses materials that are environmentally friendly in manufacture, use and disposal

• Enhances biodiversity locally by landscaping based on best practice guidance and globally by not using materials from threatened species or environments

The above information was extracted from TRAART – the office environment strategist