EEStairs: Sustainability from the inside

EEStairs: Sustainability from the inside

The sustainability of EeStairs depends, firstly on the energy and the shared ideas and ambitions of their team. EeStairs is constantly exploring new ways to improve stair design and stair making. They believe that the basis of sustainability is innovation and effective ways of improving processes relating to the design and fabrication of stairs.

For example, EeStairs use low carbon aluminium in NextGen™ stairs, and have replaced the foam tracks in the base channel of their groovEe™ glass balustrade system with a recycled plastic version. Both products were designed and developed by EeStairs, which has allowed them to reduce environmental impacts. They have pioneered the use of new stair materials, such as sustainable laminated bamboo and plywood.

This ethos of innovation and increased efficiency directly supports their commitment to progressively reduce the environmental impacts of their work and do so in a controlled and measurable way. EeStairs headquarters received the first industrial BREEAM Outstanding five-star rating in Holland, with reduced energy use year-on-year, specific contributions to animal, plant, and insect life, and the use of recycled materials whenever possible. Their headquarters and factory are also operated to ISO9001 and ISO14001 standards.

Need for electric speed at Greenpower, Fontwell, West Sussex
The Greenpower Education Trust, who commissioned the design of these innovative stairs for their UK headquarters at Fontwell, may well contribute to the discovery of the next Max Verstappen or Lewis Hamilton – or the next great Formula 1 engineers and aerodynamic experts.

This staircase, designed by EeStairs architectural specialist Geoff Packer, is the equivalent of a high-performance car: stylish, precise, geometrically advanced. The main material used, laminated bamboo, is environmentally sustainable and almost as strong and stable as steel.

The skill of EeStairs craftsmen and installation team is shown in the accuracy of the sliced, wave-like geometry of the steps, the extended risers, and the precisely vertical pin-links between the handrail and the balustrade posts. The design won two Architizer A + Awards, a prestigious prize for the best architecture and design products in the world.

These EeStairs epitomise Greenpower’s technical and environmental ambitions too. Greenpower, a charity, sponsors students between the ages of 11 and 24 to design, build and race electric cars.

The key idea is to encourage them to pursue – and excel in – science subjects. The UK alone needs at least 100,000 new science graduates every year. A growing number of international teams participate in Greenpower events and the USA, China, India, Singapore, Malaysia and Poland have run programmes under the Greenpower license.

Client: Greenpower Education Trust
Photographer: Oliver Perrott

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