We’re currently working on an exceptional project with CBRE, which is being delivered on the junction of Oxford Street and Wells Street in London. It’s called The Ribbon.

Buildings take time – sometimes a lot of time – to gestate and evolve. And therein lies in the issue. In this accelerated age there’s an inherent conflict between designing responsibly for the future and the new knowledge we’re aggregating all the time as we strive to understand how to live within our means.

The Ribbon was designed in 2017, when understanding of reuse was less mature, but fortunately we’ve had the opportunity to apply new learnings where we can.

How? Today a load of reused raised access floors was delivered to site, ready for installation. These secondhand components weren’t part of the original brief, but were donated from elsewhere in our client’s project supply chain, enabling us to realise significant reductions in the project’s embodied carbon.

If we can take each of these small wins, celebrate the marginal gains we’ve made through them and advocate for more, just think what – by multiplying them up – we can achieve together as an industry.