A demountable booth built in ReBoard, FSC plywood and zero formaldehyde FSC MDF, reused across multiple events rather than built for one. Zero waste to landfill. Visitors left with an air purifying plant. No footprint was published.
Capital One · Multiple events · Various, UK · 2022 · Finance and professional services · Design; Production; Project Management
Capital One needed a physical presence it could take to multiple events across a season, used predominantly as a recruitment tool. The report does not name a single show, venue or city: the Greenhouse was built to be used across exhibitions and events rather than for one appearance. That changed the brief from a booth design to a product design. It had to pack, travel, rebuild and hold up repeatedly, read clearly as Capital One's, and give candidates a reason to stop and talk. It also had to reach end of life fully recyclable.
The Greenhouse is a demountable booth structure built primarily in ReBoard, a board made from 100% recycled fibres that is fully recyclable in the same way as ordinary paper. ReBoard forms the visible structure and surfaces. Structural elements use FSC plywood and zero formaldehyde FSC MDF, chosen so the build carries no added formaldehyde into an enclosed exhibition hall. Living plants were built into the structure rather than dressed onto it, which is where the name comes from. Alongside them, air purifying plant species were given away to visitors, so the giveaway was a living plant rather than printed collateral or a branded object. It is a small decision and it is the one people remember. Everything that did not need to be owned was hired: all furniture, lighting and AV were hired in and returned after each event. The structure itself was then reused across multiple events rather than rebuilt for each one, which is the whole point of the design. Waste to landfill was zero, and at the end of the structure's usable life all of its materials are recyclable.
A paper-based board structure that is rebuilt repeatedly has to survive handling, transport and reassembly without the surfaces degrading. How many builds the Greenhouse actually took before retirement is not recorded anywhere citable, so the number of events, the reuse count and the repair history all need confirming before this page claims durability. What is recorded is that the structure was reused across multiple events and that nothing went to landfill.
This project was not published with a carbon footprint and no total exists in readable form. A tracking spreadsheet does exist and holds the carbon figure. Nobody has opened it. Until it is opened locally and the figure checked, this page carries no carbon number and no intensity figure. What is recorded without a footprint: zero waste to landfill; the booth structure reused across multiple events; all furniture, lighting and AV hired and returned; all materials recyclable at the end of the structure's usable life. No show, venue or city is named in the project record, so none is named here.
WAWA and ImageCo. (production), ImageCo. (AV hire), Furniture on the Move and Ya Hire (furniture), Vista Events (plants).