Brisbane’s State Law Building, located at 50 Ann St, is a building that is currently owned by Investa Property Group with the Queensland Government as the major tenant.
The original flooring consisted of 25,000m2 of Ontera Modular Carpets' Destinations loop pile commercial carpet tiles, first installed in 1994.
A tenant driven requirement for refurbishment of all the interior fixtures and finishes also included the replacement of the flooring.
At the outset it was deemed highly desirable to install new commercial carpet tiles to minimise staff disruption and inconvenience during the refurbishment programme, saving both time and money.
As a result all of the flooring has been both removed and installed during the weekends; all furniture is left in place and is simply lifted up where required to replace the carpet.
When staff return on Monday morning the flooring has miraculously been replaced, but the rest of the office is as they left it.
An important consideration was the avoidance of any products being removed going into landfill.
Ontera Modular Carpets was selected based largely on its ability to reuse existing product through the unique Earthplus reuse programme.
Earthplus is three-step closed loop recovery process where Ontera Modular Carpets pays for the uplift, removal and transportation of the product to Sydney, then cleans, retextures and updates designs on the used commercial carpet tiles.
This significantly extends the product life, while saving resources associated with replacing or commercial carpet tiles. Most importantly all of these processes happen locally here in Australia.
The ability to reuse the product on this installation has saved approximately 75,000 kg of commercial carpet tiles from going into landfill, and also eliminated the cost of landfill disposal.
Indeed so impressed was InvestaProperty Group by this that it has committed to purchase and reuse a large part of the product that has been removed form the building.
The rolling refurbishment programme commenced in March, and was completed in October.
All the current indications are that the refurbishment of the flooring has been a major success, and had contributed significantly to the new look and feel of the building while minimising disruption and impact on the environment.