ACTIONS WALL

We’ve salvaged interior materials for reuse as we’ve built out new tenant interior spaces, or made way for new developments at Google. Over 1,000 tons of materials have been salvaged for reuse in this way.

We reuse, recycle, or donate as much furniture as possible.

We have exciting external partnerships underway to help better track the movement of our furniture and its lifecycle throughout our spaces to help inform future reuse.

We are incorporating salvaged materials in many of our ground-up new construction projects and standardizing the integration of building material reuse into our Bay Area tenant improvement projects. At our Charleston East LBC Material Petal project, we incorporated more than 30 different salvaged materials.

We are implementing whole building adaptive reuse at projects such as the Spruce Goose Project, and the San Jose Water Company Building.

As active members of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, we plan to investigate and share lessons learned with others, such as we have in our “Accelerating the Circular Economy Through Commercial Deconstruction and Reuse” white paper, in our aim to transform the building industry into a circular economy.

We will form an internal project plan to identify all of the opportunities to include reuse in our current design and construction processes.

We will initiate conversations with our Design & Construction teams to evaluate the potential to divert surplus and demo towards reuse.

We will convene our Design & Construction teams to discuss ways in which they can help to prioritize procurement of recycled content or reused materials, reduce surplus, and deconstruct instead of demo.

We are conducting a deconstruction inventory across our 59 acre site with intention to salvage and reuse as much as possible, instead of leaving the existing buildings for the contractor to demo.

We are identifying everything in our office spaces and are in the process of developing decommissioning specifications.

We are adding and prioritizing reuse and deconstruction in our organization's climate action plans because we recognize the connection between reuse and carbon emissions reductions.

We will add requirements to seek salvaged building materials first for at least 5% of the construction budget, and assess deconstruction as an option over demo, into our project standards for all our design & construction partners.

We commit to reaching out to reuse partners (deconstruction contractors, take-back programs, furniture brokers, etc.) as soon as a renovation project is identified, as opposed to waiting till near the time of our move out.