Already recognised as the UK’s most exciting design-led manufacturer of commercial carpet tiles, Quadrant is using the Surface Design Show to showcase a new range of innovative flooring products from Tandus. These include Powerbond® and a wide selection of new Modular and Broadloom Carpet products.

Innovative carpet manufacturer, Quadrant, are thanking their customers for helping to reduce the amount of carpet folders and samples being sent to landfill by more than seven tons. The company’s R4 initiative encourages architects and designers to call on Quadrant to dispose of carpet folders and samples produced by themselves or by their competitors.

Recycling of tiles at the end of their useful life is being stimulated by rising landfill costs plus European recycling goals e.g Site Waste Management Plans. Quadrant are founder supporters of environmental organisation, Carpet Recycling UK, who are working with partners in several promising areas.

Quadrant has launched a new carpet tile which the company believes will deliver exactly what designers are looking for in tough economic times. 'Zone' is the latest product from the British manufacturer who is rapidly becoming the UK’s most innovative carpet company. Designed by its' own in-house creative team lead by design director Eve Waldron, the new tile from Quadrant offers highly sophisticated styling using just two yarns.

Analysis of past economic trends reveals that five per cent of businesses thrive during periods of recession. So, what is the difference between the credit crunch 'thrivers' and the downturn survivers? "Crucially, thrivers don’t just baton down the hatches and pray for sunnier economic weather," says Quadrant's senior designer Eve Waldron.

British businesses are once again leading the way and establishing a new trend towards distinctive and more individualistic office space. As a result we’re introducing new designs which have personality as well as subtlety. The latest addition to Quadrant’s design-led portfolio of modular carpets, STRIPE, is both distinctive yet discrete.

Fears that the credit crunch would result in businesses becoming less concerned with environmental issues have not been realised, according to a new survey conducted amongst small and medium sized businesses. In fact, the latest ARENA Environmental Benchmarking Survey reveals that companies which demonstrate good environmental management are also enjoying continuous improvement in overall business performance.

A new relaxed-style of office club, such as the recently opened ‘One Alfred Place’, is being heralded as start of a trend to establish a-place-to-work-in the-city for growing numbers of professional mobile workers. Although experts have been predicting an expanding home-based workforce for more than a decade, the reality is somewhat different.