Designing for Disassembly: Enabling Reuse and Recycling of Commercial Flooring

Description

Designing for Next Life: Circular Thinking for Commercial Interiors 

As circular economy targets reshape the built environment, commercial designers are being challenged to think beyond first occupancy. 

This CPD examines how Design for Disassembly is transforming the way we specify interior materials - enabling products to be recovered, reused and retained at higher value rather than stripped out and discarded. 

Focusing on commercial flooring as a high-turnover element, the session explores circular economy principles, design for disassembly and reversible fixing mechanisms, alongside practical case studies that demonstrate how DfD can be delivered today. 

Ideal for architects and interior designers seeking practical ways to align sustainability ambitions with design flexibility and commercial realities. 

Learning outcomes: 

• Understand how circular economy principles apply to commercial interiors, with a focus on flooring materials and installation methods. 
• Explain how Design for Disassembly strategies can support flexibility, carbon reduction and compliance with sustainability certification schemes 
• Evaluate difference reversible fixing options for commercial flooring 
• Apply learnings from case studies to make more informed flooring specifications that enhance circularity, reduce waste and deliver long-term benefits.