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How to Make Your Office More Sustainable
– canadianbusiness.com
If the walls of Avison Young’s new Edmonton headquarters could talk, they might want to brag about their new threads. To up its sustainability factor, the real estate firm has insulated its new office with recycled denim jeans—210 pairs to be exact, mechanically separated and formed into batts, or insulation blankets.
Insulation is usually made from fibreglass—a material that is notoriously difficult to recycle and usually ends up in landfills. Fibreglass also produces dust that irritates the skin and airways, and workers have to wear full personal protective equipment during installation. Denim, on the other hand, is easy on the eyes and the hands.
Avison Young hired the architecture firm Innerspaces, which uses denim as part of its product line, to handle its makeover. “The amount of fibreglass insulation we’ve thrown away over the years is horrifying,” says Tim Taitinger, Innerspaces’ president. “It was fantastic to use something as cool as recycled denim, which performs well acoustically and is much more sustainable…
