Specified, by EGGER - Issue 5

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Join us at

Clerkenwell Design Week

23-25th May

EGGER proudly partners with Design Insider as Trend Sponsor for this year’s three day festival.

With special thanks to Grant Westfield, EGGER UK Design Manager Aimee Fletcher explores 'Simplicity Redefined' in an exclusive trend talk at their showroom in the heart of Clerkenwell on Wednesday 24th May.

Join us between 5-7pm for networking, nibbles & drinks, and an inspiring insight into emerging and future trends in multi sector interior design.

We look forward to seeing you there.

©Tom Fallon Photography

© Victoria Gibbs

Evolving workspace

The workplace is back

In Q4 2022, London’s flexible office occupancy surpassed its pre-pandemic rate of 60%.*

Q1 2023 followed, with UK wide office use reaching a post-pandemic high of 34.3%. London's West End at 43.9% and Docklands at 49.4% pulled up the national average.** Both statistics show that the capital is healthily making its way towards a pre-lockdown headcount.

Isolation and disconnected relationships are among reasons cited for a return to the workplace.

At the same time, employees have become accustomed to the flexibility and lower commute pressures of remote working. These are benefits not readily given up, so attracting staff back to the office can be a hard bargain to drive.

How do businesses overcome this?

The workplace has to make the sacrifice worthwhile, by offering something that the home office does not.

This means a significant evolution of the design brief.

In this issue, we explore the key factors of the changing brief and offer carefully considered material solutions to meet it.

* Source: Knight Frank

**Source: Savills

H1345 ST32

H3190 ST19

H1180 ST37

U232 ST9

U960 ST9

U211 ST9

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© Forest One © Tom Fallon Photography

Workplace wellness

Wellness is top of the workplace design brief for 2023 and beyond.

Employee health and wellbeing are driving the workplace evolution. Businesses are increasingly designing their offices around their employees’ emotional and physical needs. Both support the social element of the growing focus on ESG.

In interiors, this can come in many forms. Natural lighting. Biophilia. Access to the outdoors. Calming private areas and social spaces that nurture relationships.

True Potential LLP surpasses the brief in its stylish headquarters. Pairing an understated woodgrain decor with pops of colour, it provides a perfect balance between relaxation spaces and energised collaborative zones.

Natural light and a living wall further elevate the interior.

H3430 ST22

Images © House of Hues

What about costs?

With successful value engineering, the brief can be met within cost restraints.

Ward Robinson Design chose EGGER’s matching materials to carry a uniform look through the workspace, allowing project fabricators to use the most cost-effective product for the application without altering the design aesthetic.

Eurodekor Faced Chipboard (MFC) is used for wall panels, slats, desks and cabinetry. It is ready to cut and edge without further processing, streamlining fabrication.

Laminate, with heightened resilience, is used for hard-wearing seating, table tops, and the internal doors in a pre-cut sheet size.

While laminate and MFC costs per m2 do not differ significantly, laminate requires bonding to a substrate and incurs additional costs as a result.

The matching finish means laminate bonding can be switched to MFC where applicable, removing extra costs. Matching ABS edging gives a neat finish to both materials.

» What’s the difference between MFC and laminate?

www.egger.com/laminate-vs-mfc

Design: Ward Robinson

Fabrication: Graeme Ash

Images © House of Hues

Hotelification

Luxurious design concepts. High end amenities. Hospitality inspired services. A ‘user first’ approach to creating inviting spaces that deliver valuable experiences. The ‘hotelification’ of the workplace means creating an environment akin to the luxury of the hospitality sector, where consumer experience shapes the brief. This comes down to everything from refreshments, facilities and flexible room booking, to the interior design. “It’s about taking the workplace to a hospitality level.”

HOK identifies the evolving brief as a focus on highly tailored interiors designed to retain talent in a competitive labour market. For Director of Interiors Tom Polucci, design matters more than ever.

Reporting rising client requests for an ‘airport lounge’ style workplace, Tom adds: These spaces are very beautiful and hospitality focused, but also provide spaces to collaborate or tuck away alone and focus.”

As in hotel design, a sophisticated palette, impressive textures and statement lighting can be top of a designers toolkit.

H1400 ST36

F186 ST9

U899 ST9

What about costs?

Creating a luxury workplace need not mean breaking the budget. Choose high quality reproductions that offer the look and feel of wood veneer, timber, marble or glass, at a fraction of the cost.

EGGER’s advanced production technology results in powerful reproductions that offer cost savings on material, fabrication and labour, controlling project costs for all stages.

Forest One meets the brief at its contemporary headquarters, pairing value adding reproduction materials with statement art pieces.

Feelwood Eurodekor Faced Chipboard –1/3 of the material cost of solid oak and no ongoing maintenance such as oiling or treating required

© Forest One

Work.Life

The evolving workplace brief is exceeded in the striking interior of Work.Life, Old Street.

Created by Two, the vibrant co-work space packs a punch of colour, multi textured surfaces and feature lighting across private booths, collaborative work zones and high end amenities.

True to hotelification, Work.Life greets its entrants with a striking first impression. The amenity spaces pair industrial stone finishes with exposed brickwork and an energising palette.

EGGER F628 ST16 Silver Grey Metal Slate was chosen for the statement counter end. With impressive attention to detail, the cut-out cross design reflects the level of aesthetic care typically found in the hospitality sector.

F628 ST16 Silver Grey Metal Slate

U646 ST9

U335 ST9

U232 ST9

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In the booth seating, rust tones are paired with barely black EGGER H3190 ST19 Anthracite Fineline Metallic. Choosing a vertical grain orientation mirrors the tall booth surrounds and heightens the veneer like appearance of the decor.

Designer India Cornish told us why the decor was chosen:

We chose EGGER as their laminates have the most natural finish, with both the grain and colour mimicking real wood almost perfectly”

Specifying the decor as laminate meant a seamless finish could be achieved on the thick booth surrounds and work surfaces, reflecting the bold design aesthetic. It also offers heightened durability, perfect for the higher wear of the busy co-working environment.

Choosing EGGER products means that we can enjoy aesthetic, high-quality products while also being environmentally responsible.’’

She added:

EGGER laminates can suit any space and design concept, and are incredibly durable and long-lasting.”

F433 ST10

H3190 ST19

© Tom Fallon Photography

In the hot desking zones, H3131 ST12 Natural Davos Oak complements the palette of bold orange-reds and muted blues. The characterful knotting and subtle ST12 grain texture bring an element of biophillic design to the interior.

Ultimately, we selected EGGER finishes for their natural beauty, versatility, and practicality.”

Specifying the finish in Eurodekor Faced Chipboard offers a greater contribution to the ESG targets of the project, due to its negative embodied carbon and 100% recyclability.

H3131 ST12

U504 ST9

U163 ST9

U390 ST9

© Tom Fallon Photography

Two spoke to us about the importance of environmental sustainability and why they chose EGGER products to help them achieve it:

It's vital to consider the environmental impact of our choices. That's precisely why we chose EGGER, because it is committed to sustainability by purchasing wood regionally and using by-products. EGGER continually seeks to improve its environmental performance, and manufactures within environmental management systems in accordance with ISO 14001.”

» Learn more about environment and sustainability at EGGER

www.egger.com/more-from-wood

Design: Two

H3131 ST12

U504 ST9

U732 ST9

Photography: Tom Fallon

Everything from a single source

In the workplace and office sectors, EGGER supplies materials for desks, shelving, cabinetry, wall panelling, kitchens, tea points, booth seating, flooring and the structural flooring beneath.

EGGER is unique as a supplier in offering efficient and cost-effective solutions for all of the above from a single source.

Shown product material sizes

Eurodekor MFC 2800 × 2070 × 18 mm

Eurodekor Flammex 2800 × 2070 × 18 mm

Door Size Laminate 2150 × 950 × 0.8 mm

25 mm Worktop 4100 × 600 × 25 mm

All applications fabricated with matching ABS edging.

© Alexandru Prodan; VIM studio

H1136 ST37

U741 ST9

U750 ST9

Flammex MFC

U750 ST9 Taupe Grey

Eurodekor MFC - Feelwood

H1336 ST37 Sand Grey Glazed Halifax Oak

Eurodekor MFC - Feelwood H1336 ST37 Sand Grey Glazed Halifax Oak

Flammex MFC U741 ST9 Lava Grey

EGGER PRO Laminate Flooring EPL154 Asgil Light Oak

Flammex MFC U741 ST9 Lava Grey

Door Size Laminate U750 ST9 Taupe Grey

Eurodekor MFC - Feelwood H1336 ST37 Sand Grey Glazed Halifax Oak

Flammex MFC U741 ST9 Lava Grey

EGGER PRO Laminate Flooring EPL154 Asgil Light Oak

Door Size Laminate U750 ST9 Taupe Grey

Eurodekor MFC - Feelwood

H1336 ST37 Sand Grey Glazed Halifax Oak

Flammex MFC

U750 ST9 Taupe Grey

25 mm Worktop and matching Splashback F637 ST16 White Chromix

Design for ESG

Controlling the environmental impact of a design remains priority for specifiers. Within an ESG framework, reducing carbon emissions tops that agenda.

Embodied carbon refers to emissions from the materials that form a building. Previously, this related typically to construction products, but it has evolved over time to include the minutiae of interior fabrics. It makes sense – choosing carbon reducing materials for furniture can go a long way towards a net zero or negative calculation overall, particularly in high unit volumes found in hotels or PRS developments.

Here we explore measures specifiers can take to contribute to carbon reduction in projects, and materials to achieve it.

F417 ST10

H1253 ST19

U960 ST9 F812 ST9

U780 ST9

Carbon negative Eurodekor is used for case goods, cabinetry, desks and beds in hotel and residential interiors. H3406 ST38

U727 PM

U732 ST9

© Victoria Gibbs

Minimise waste

Choose products that are formulated to ensure project fabricators get the most from the material, with little to no wastage. This is down to material versatility as well as optimal sheet and pack sizing.

Versatile materials suitable for multiple applications mean that a number of interior elements can be produced from the same product. Specifying Eurodekor Faced Chipboard for kitchen units, for example, means any off cuts can be used for drawer fronts or plinths in a matching finish.

Our sheet size is not chance

Our history of supplying high quality board product to the furniture industry means our products are formulated to optimise fabrication for common applications. Industry standard 18mm is stocked UK wide with availability in as little as 24 hours.

» See more about sheet optimisation

www.egger.com/sheet-optimisation

H3326 ST28

U961 PM

Images © Galliard Homes

Responsible materials

Ethical and sustainable raw material sourcing, and environmentally conscious production, contribute to the responsibility of interior materials. Specifying materials from manufacturers that offer transparency on these topics will streamline the journey towards achieving environmental project goals.

EGGER’s ethos on environmentalism is clear - we offer full transparency for our products and document it publicly. This comes in two document formats: Environmental Product Declarations and Environmental Health Datasheets.

Work with our Specifier’s Handbook on your projects for quick access to these documents for all materials, along with Technical Datasheets, Eco Facts, and certification.

Specifying within the framework of BREEAM, LEED V4 or WELL?

Use our handbook for our at-a-glance guide to compliance by material, with quick links to supporting documents.

From forest to furniture

At the beginning of our wood based panel production, our raw materials are responsibly and sustainably sourced via EGGER Forestry. Here, Manager Ben Drake talks to us about forestry processes and how choosing EGGER can help specifiers to achieve environmental goals.

Hi Ben, thanks for joining us. EGGER Forestry is at the root of EGGER (UK)’s wood-based material production. How do we ensure specifiers that we have a positive impact on the environment from the start?

Our focus is on ensuring legal, safe and sustainable supplies of wood. All of the material we source adheres to strict environmental, legal and Company standards that offer progressive support to those we work with. These standards ensure wood removal only from sustainably managed forests.

Specifiers want to be sure that we maintain these environmental credentials at every step. How do we guarantee this?

Sustainability is at the heart of our operations. We build on strong relationships with those who share our vision, including the forest owner, our contracting resources for felling, extraction and transportation, and with our customers.

We guarantee this through the continued professional development of our staff, who are equipped with competencies that add value to our standards, which is returned to our collaborators. Our aim is to set high service standards and ultimately to inspire others to promote positive practices within the industry.

One focus is to ensure that the forest is managed with respect for the environment, the wildlife and the people who live and work in it. How exactly do we do this?

We engage with landowners and forest managers to ensure ecosystem conservation, by working within strict legal and environmental standards. These standards provide multiple benefits including the improvement of biodiversity, habitat, water quality, landscape, amenity and recreation. Our robust wood processing operations support the economic aspects of forest stewardship by utilising large quantities of timber from responsibly managed forests every year.

Ben Drake Manager EGGER Forestry

EGGER has established long term, valuable relationships within the Forestry sector.

How does this directly benefit those specifying our products?

Our long-term relationships are built on trust and respect, and ensure the consistent focus on quality products and service that allows both parties to prosper. This approach provides those specifying EGGER wood based products with confidence in the integrity, quality and value of our maintenance of these long-term relationships.

Our production plant in Northumberland takes in a huge amount of wood. Specifiers ask us how we make sure volume is regenerated while still meeting our annual requirements?

EGGER (UK) sources almost 800,00 tonnes of virgin fibre, as well as 400,000 tonnes of recycled wood, annually.

All of our wood fibre streams, whether through EGGER Forestry or direct through EGGER (UK), are procured from forest owners that are obliged to follow strict legal protocols, where requirements to replant felled areas are being met. Alongside our own recorded due diligence systems and those of our external suppliers, we are able to offer certainty to those specifying our products that the amount of wood required by our production facility is annually sustainable, in terms of relevant environmental, social and economic standards.

Recycling

Choosing materials manufactured with recycled content, and materials that are recyclable at end of life, both contribute to carbon reduction when using wood based products.

EGGER is the largest user of recycled timber in the UK wood panel industry. We are committed to creating a valuable product from waste wood that would otherwise be sent to landfill or burnt for biomass, releasing its stored carbon into the atmosphere.

The 350,000 tonnes of recycled wood we source annually via EGGER Timberpak provide 40% of the core board structure of UK produced Eurodekor Faced Chipboard.

A further 40% comes from the by-product of commercial sawmill operations, in the narrow tree trunk tops and outer edges that they cannot process. This material goes into chipboard production in the form of hackchips and sawdust. This further prevents waste wood material from biomass.

Timberpak Director Mark Hayton tells us how specifying EGGER board products can help to ensure a project is delivered with an environmental conscious at the forefront.

The largest off taker of recycled wood in the UK is the biomass industry, which burns wastewood for energy, releasing carbon back into the atmosphere. Recycling the wood locks that carbon in for the lifetime of the product made.”

With Eurodekor Faced Chipboard, the finished material is 100% recyclable, forming part of EGGER’s Closed Loop Production Cycle. And while the material is designed to last a lifetime, trends move fast. When furniture is removed, it can be re-recycled and used in further production.

Mark adds:

With re-recycling down the line, carbon can be locked away for a lifetime. We all have a responsibility to ensure that all wood material that can be recycled, is recycled. It can never be seen as acceptable to spend 45 years growing a tree only to burn it in 45 seconds.”

» See our Closed Loop Production Cycle bring this process to life at www.egger.com/sustainability

H1180 ST37

U968 ST9

U626 ST9

© Bosch

© Bosch

New products

PerfectSense® TM9

Answering the demand for more environmentally sustainable interior solutions, new PerfectSense Lacquered Chipboard TM9 comes to market. Relaunched for Spring 2023, TM9 boasts a new, upgraded matt lacquered surface on our high quality chipboard core.

The result...A smoother, more velvety finish that is softer to the touch, in a 100% recyclable material. The core is made using recycled content and sawmill by-product, and is negative in carbon status.

Muted blue greys, versatile neutrals and natural greens set the TM9 range apart. Elevate solid colour elements in your design projects with high end looking opacity across cupboard frontals, wardrobe doors and end panels.

TM9 offers EGGER’s most trend inspiring palette yet.

Silent Solid Colours

Shifting design trends have seen inspiring paint colours from Farrow & Ball and Coat pave the way for warming pastel tones in interiors. Designers look to source complementing furniture that blends with them in tonal layers.

To meet the demand for these understated tones, EGGER introduces a range of Silent Solid Colours.

Available in Eurodekor Faced Chipboard and matching edging from UK stock, with turnaround in as little as 24 hours.

Colour palette

Designers are choosing softer, more comfortable shades to create sanctuaries in home and work spaces.”

U502 ST9

Misty Blue

U767 ST9 Cubanit Grey

U335 ST9 Rusty Red

U604 ST9 Reed Green

U211 ST9 Almond Beige

U115 ST9 Carat Beige

Aimee Fletcher, EGGER UK Design Manager

Cuneo Oaks

Introductions to our innovative Feelwood collection offer designers new possibilities to create natural, authentic looking interiors.

Cuneo Oaks are characterised by the lightly planked appearance and discreet sapwood features. The synchronised pore surface elevates the decors even closer to reality.

Available in Eurodekor Faced Chipboard and matching edging from our UK wide distribution network.

» Order Cuneo Oak samples www.egger.com/shop

H3311 ST28 Bleached Cuneo Oak

H3317 ST28 Brown Cuneo Oak

Texture Meets Colour

The demand for painted timber shows no signs of slowing, but a high price tag and increased labour demands means the desired finish often exceeds the project restraints.

EGGER offers an affordable solution with the refreshed Texture Meets Colour range, combining a sophisticated palette with advanced woodgrain texture development. Available in Eurodekor Faced Chipboard, the product is offered for frontals, end panels, shelving and fitted furniture.

Choose from 14 solid colours and three textures to find the perfect painted timber look for your project.

Colour palette

For availability please speak to your Specification Advisor.

» For Specification Team contact details please scan the QR code

U732 Dust Grey

U767 Cubanit Grey

U201 Pebble Grey

U702 Cashmere Grey U638 Sage Green

W1200 Porcelain White U708 Light Grey

U604 Reed Green

U961 Graphite Grey U502 Misty Blue U780 Monument Grey

U599 Indigo Blue U699 Fir Green

U999 Black

F417 ST10

EGGER Group awarded for sustainability performance. Mixology Finalist

EGGER has aspired to act sustainably since its founding in 1961. The company recently received two significant awards in sustainability ratings by external institutions.

News Events

ISS ESG Prime Status

ISS ESG is one of the leading rating agencies in the sustainable investment segment. The EGGER Group has been awarded Prime status for the third time, an accolade reserved for the best companies in their respective industries. Rated using financial ESG data, companies achieving prime status are considered sustainability leaders in their industry.

EcoVadis Silver Medal

EcoVadis, one of the world's largest providers of sustainability ratings, awarded EGGER the silver medal for the fourth time. This puts the woodbased materials manufacturer among the top 25 percent of all companies evaluated. The evaluation focuses on 21 criteria, which are subdivided into four subject areas: Environment, Labour and Human Rights, Ethics and Sustainable Procurement.

Mix 30 under 30

EGGER are proud to be Surface Partner sponsor for the 2023 Mixology 30 under 30, which takes place in September.

Good luck to all of the rising stars in interior design and architecture who have been nominated by peers!

We are thrilled to be named as a finalist in the Manufacturer of the Year category at this year’s Mixology awards, an accolade we proudly won at December’s Mixology North.

The awards take place on 22nd June.

Good luck to all the finalists!

Mat Lab

Visit us at Material Lab, and experience our dedicated display area showcasing products from the EGGER Decorative Collection.

Pick up mood board and A4 sized samples for projects, and see our cutting edge reproduction materials in application.

» You will find us at 10 Great Titchfield Street, London, W1W 8BB

Tools and services

We offer a wide range of services and tools to help you and your clients get the most out of our comprehensive collection.

EGGER Decorative App

Our app provides the entire Decorative Collection at your fingertips, whenever and wherever you need it. Find material information and easy sample ordering in one place. The client project area makes this the ideal tool for meetings on the go.

Download the EGGER Decorative Collection App now.

Support through visualisation

To bring your decor combination ideas to life we have a Virtual Design Studio (VDS). Access a wide range of room sets where you can apply different decors to see which suits your project. This can save you significant time in the early design stages.

» Find out more at www.egger.com/vds

Our website and myEGGER

From technical datasheets, processing instructions, certificates and product availability, to case studies, trend information and services, egger.com has everything you need. If you use CAD, your package may already include EGGER decors. However if it doesn’t, we can supply decor scans for our full collection.

» Register at myegger.com and benefit now.

Support through samples

Try before you specify when you need something more tangible than a brochure. You can order samples online or order them quickly and easily via the new collection app.

» To order your samples

www.egger.com/shop

Digital Design Platforms

Find us on NBS Source and bimstore

Specifiers Handbook

Use the EGGER Specifier‘s Handbook to access information about our products, certifications, and environmental and governance policies.

» Find out more at www.egger.com/specifiers-handbook

Contact information

If you would like to discuss any of the articles in this issue of Specified or learn more about EGGER products and services please contact a member of our Specification team, they will be happy to answer any questions you may have.

» For our Specification Team contact details please scan the QR code

EGGER (UK) Limited

Anick Grange Road

Hexham, Northumberland

NE46 4JS

t 0845 6068888

From R.O.I please call t +44 1434 613304 productsupport@egger.com

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All our shown and mentioned decors are reproductions. Colour-matching a decor selection is only possible with an original sample. Due to variables in the printing process, colours may vary slightly from the actual product. Subject to technical modifications and printing errors.