Building a Manifesto for Change: Circular Economy, Re-use and Office Fit-Outs

Talk series: Building a Manifesto for Change
Across four sessions, we will explore key climate challenges facing the built environment, sharing bold ideas, uncovering barriers to progress and shaping our Manifesto for Change.

Episode 1: Circular economy, reuse and office fit outs

Office buildings are typically refurbished every 3–5 years, a cycle that generates huge volumes of waste, most of which ends up in landfill. Our Love Zero Waste initiative is our response to this challenge: a call to radically rethink how the fit-out and refurbishment industry operates, driving true circularity and zero waste.

We will be joined by Emily (British Land), Lyndsay (Thirdway), and Sophia (Love Design Studio) to ask how far we’ve come in delivering change, and what barriers are still holding us back from achieving true circularity.

Using our shared 20 Triton Street refurbishment project as a case study we will unpack:

• Why the fit-out industry’s waste problem is so persistent.

• What progress we made as an industry over the last 5 years

• What’s stopping change at each level of the process.

• And what bold, practical steps are needed to create a zero-waste future.

This conversation will help shape our 2026 Manifesto for Change, a provocation to the industry and a roadmap for collective action.

Register to attend here.