Off the back of an internal restructure, a major financial institution sought to decommission its eight-storey commercial building within the ambitious time-frame of three months to prepare for a full office redevelopment.

JLL was engaged to manage the process, facing the unique challenge of not only meeting the deadline, but also identifying and ethically removing furniture that would not be used in the new office.

The aim was to rehome as much furniture as possible to avoid landfill.

Our project and development team established an eight-week programme to dismantle and remove over 2,700 furniture items which included 1200 workstations, 550 chairs, 100 lounges, 500 filing cabinets, 120 whitegoods and more.

We contacted local charity groups, schools, and second-hand furniture dealers to re-home as much furniture as possible.

Aside from the re-deployment of furniture and decommissioning of the building, we also managed use of the goods lift, disassembly of the building’s commercial kitchen and cafeteria, safety site checks, and the creation of an in-depth tracking schedule to verify the sustainable removal of furniture.