dc Reporting

Understand the impact of your FF&E products, and the positive impact of designing for reuse.

Furniture, Fixtures & Equipment (FF&E) contributes to 30% of a CAT B fitout; and with an average new fitout every 5 years, they can have a higher carbon footprint than the building fabric itself.

This report has been create to help understand the impact of FF&E, and to encourage owners and tenants to minimise this impact throughout the buildings life. Designers and planners will be able to see the benefits of reusing FF&E products, and designing for reuse in current and future projects.

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What's included in a dc FF&E Carbon Report?

Complete FF&E Interior Overview

  • Bespoke Carbon Efficiency graphic composed from supplied floor plans & CAD files.
  • A summary graph presenting the circularity performance of the provided FF&E.

Individual Product Carbon Breakdown

  • Overview of location information, and resulting total carbon footprint.
  • Clear organisation and display of new and reused products to convey current & potential future carbon savings.
  • Intricate carbon breakdown of the supplied FF&E information, including; product images, data types, total carbon footprint, and carbon efficiency rating for both 1st & 2nd life of the products included.

To calculate the carbon footprint of the total fitout, dc gathers manufacturers’ product data using either Life Cycle Assessments (LCA), dc’s Circular Design Certificates (CDC), or given product averages (AVG). From this, a cradle-to-grave carbon footprint can be determined.

What is the importance of 1st & 2nd Life?

Identifying the 1st, and potential 2nd life of a product allows us to calculate and present the potential carbon savings when reusing products, within our report of the given interior. ISO59004 defines ‘reuse’ as; ‘use of a product or its components after their intial use, for the same purpose for which they were origionally designed’.

We determine ‘2nd life; as a form of reuse, encompassing reuse, repair or remanufacture.

All products are given a carbon efficiency rating. This is calculated by dividing the total cradle-to-grave carbon footprint, by the square meterage, by design life (in this example, 5 years). This calculation allows dc to compare different product types and determine an average carbon footprint by product catagory.

If you have a project you’d like to discuss then book on to a call and we can walk you through the process of obtaining an FF&E carbon report.

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