Tips for a circular (re)design of your office

Since March 2020, Covid-19 has had a lasting effect on how, when and why we go to the office.

Thinking about the new function of the office

The office will have fewer employees at any given moment due to partial home-working, so-called ‘hybrid work’. The office will probably also have an increased focus on being used for meetings more than before, requiring creative re-organization of workplaces for different activities. Have you already thought about the new function of your office and its consequences for your office space for your move?

Sustainable (re)furnishing your office and workplaces

Is sustainability also your priority and are you looking for a flexible, suitably sustainable (re)design and circular mover? As a (re)housing specialist and experienced commercial moving company, we are happy to help you (re)furnish and move your office and workplaces.

Tips for a circular office design

As an awarded ‘Recognized Project Mover of the Year 2021’, we help many offices, companies and organizations professionally and efficiently move or (re)furnish (internally) every day. Our commercial moves experts are happy to help you with some tips for circularly (re)arranging your office and workplaces or moving internally:

• Tip 1: Think innovatively
  A change is a good time to do things differently. Brainstorm within your organisation from top to bottom and formulate a vision for your circular office design. In this way you also create awareness and involvement. 

• Tip 2: Be creative
  Think about where you want to go with a particular set-up. Which circular materials suit your concept and company? For example, if your focus is ship engines, consider furniture made from used ship materials. In the historic reception room of De Haan Verhuizingen, for example, we made the coffee table from an old removal box with a glass plate. 

• Tip 3: Take a closer look at industrial waste
  When your company or office is moving (internally), this is also an opportunity to take a critical look at the materials. What can be refurbished, what can be partially reused, what can be disposed of and can something be given a second life in recycled form? 

• Tip 4: Talk to your supplier
  Make use of your suppliers’ Also within the moving industry there is a development going from a linear economy to a circular economy and a broadening of logistics removal services. Talk to each other and ask how and whether they may be of service in fulfilling the 10 R's - refuse, reduce, redesign, re- use, repair, refurbish, remanufacture, repurpose, recycle, recover. 

De Haan Commercial for office (re)design in a circular way

At De Haan Project Relocations, we proactively consult with your organization at an early stage to discuss sustainable removals, so that no unnecessary removals have to be carried out. We help you plan, draw up a professional moving plan, including a circular plan, and deliver custom work in the quality execution guaranteed by us.

With our additional relocation services, we can, together with you, complete your relocation or office (re) furnishing in a circular manner. For example by: 

• Facility support:
  Our employees are used to flexibly providing various activities on behalf of your facility department. This can vary from internal removals, disposal or internal supervision of any type of short or long term work. This can be organized as an on-call basis or in-house. Of course in a fixed composition, so that our employees can function as if they are 'at home'; fast, flexible and decisive. 

• Office chair cleaning service:
  To extend the life of your furniture. 

• Clearing Management:
  It is not just about moving, but also about the storage and sustainable return of (excess) furniture using the circular R-model (=repair), refurbishing (refurbish), parts of the reuse a piece of furniture (repurpose) or/and reuse it as a raw material (recycle). We dispose of reusable material and give it a second destination for our customers. Material that is no longer usable is dismantled, separated and disposed of or sold for our customers. In the latter case, for example, buyers for iron, plastic or wood. The proceeds of this go back to you as the client. How circular is that! 

Choose the added value of De Haan Commercial Movers

Moving with attention to people, the environment and the economy while you can fully focus your energy on (re)housing? Contact us now. 

Would you like to know more about the initiatives we have taken in recent years to reduce the impact of moving on the environment? Available at: De Haan as a corporate social responsible removal company | De Haan Commercial Moves