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In this post, we will be looking at a new feature we have added to the Warp It system that makes life easier for building clearance managers, and allows reuse to be . . .
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"Claiming the items has been very simple. You pick the number of items you want, you claim them, and then you’re just arranging a collection. It’s very sleek." -Paul . . .
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In this post, we will be looking at a new feature we have added to the Warp It system that makes life easier for building clearance managers, and allows reuse to be maximised during clearances and decommissions.
Topics: Features and benefits, Building Clearance
To do that, we’ve produced some branded sticker templates to make it absolutely clear what is going to happen with your surplus assets- as part of a building move or as part of your reuse campaign.
Topics: Increasing participation, Easy wins, Building Clearance
Topics: Case study, Building Clearance
The challenge is that there are so many critical, and often conflicting deadlines, that the reuse of surplus assets is often left to the last minute. By this time, it is usually too late to find new owners for those assets!
Topics: Facilities management, Building Clearance
Topics: Easy wins, Building Clearance
Topics: Case study, Municipal council, Building Clearance
-Paul Dodd, CT Furniture
Topics: Charity, Building Clearance
Topics: Facilities management, Easy wins, Building Clearance
We were looking for a solution for our unwanted furniture and surplus assets. One of our elected members had been looking out of the window and saw a bookcase sitting in the rain and decided to pursue a change. In the past, everything we did with reuse was ad hoc, so there might have been a frantic phone call to the Salvation Army to see if they wanted something. Invariably, things were no use to them, no use to us, and had be disposed of, so things would either go off to the tip, or if they were fortunate, they’d be recycled. Shortly after this, I was at a conference and I heard you (Daniel O’Connor) talking about Warp It. It sounded like the solution we needed, and easy to set up, so that’s how it all kicked off.
So far we’ve had two main buildings be decommissioned and put on the market for new tenants. They’re not going to be used by the council anymore. So, we have had a lot of surplus furniture that ordinarily we wouldn’t have been able to find a home for and would have been hard to get rid of, but using Warp It has been a great outlet and hasn’t caused us any hassle. The furniture’s there, we list it on the online reuse portal and somebody comes to pick it up. In the past, it would have been a logistical nightmare trying to get an item to people. Now, all the systems are in place to make things run smoothly.
We’ve actually just used this as a good news story. Our environment committee were slightly critical that we weren’t publicising our good work well enough. The fact that we made it into the top 10 was ripe for a good news story, so we turned it into different formats and it’s on the ticker tape on our website, as well as in a council-wide email saying ‘Congratulations, we’re in the top 10!’. We’ve added it to the member’s bulletin for next week, so they’ll find the news in their pigeon holes too. We are learning as we go along, and yesterday’s email blast lead me to have 14 new member requests this morning!
Topics: Case study, Charity, Municipal council, Building Clearance
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