Corporate member Designer Contracts scoops sustainability prize

Corporate member Designer Contracts has scooped a top industry prize for sustainability in a prestigious industry partnership awards scheme.

Along with Texfelt, a world leading manufacturer of eco-engineered PU foam replacements, Designer Contracts – the UK’s largest flooring contractor – took the Partners in Sustainability category title in the PFM Partnership Awards 2021.

The announcement was made at an awards ceremony at The Brewery on Chiswell Street in London, on 3 November where more than 500 industry professionals gathered for the facilities management event of the year.

Louise Walters, commercial director at Designer Contracts, said: “We are absolutely delighted to have won this award which underlines our commitment to environmental and sustainability issues.”

Designer Contracts and Texfelt have an exclusive arrangement to sell a unique, fully recyclable underlay made from single use plastic bottles to the new build sector. To date Designer Contracts has diverted over 750,000 bottles from the environment through sales of Texfelt’s ground-breaking SpringBond underlay.

SpringBond has the potential to save the equivalent of 1,000 500ml PET plastic bottles from polluting the oceans and environment if used throughout an average three-bedroom house.

Judges said the partnership had proved extremely effective in having a highly positive effective on the environment through the reduction of plastic waste by re-purposing it.

Louise said: “The award is a testament to the success of our partnership with Texfelt – and the efforts of the team at Designer Contracts in rolling out Springbond to the new build sector where home buyers are becoming increasingly aware of their impact on the environment.”