(01) Journal
Journal
38 entries
Notes on the furniture we specify, the makers behind it, and the workplaces we help deliver.
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Will the access floor take it? Furniture point loads, panel grades and pedestals
A tenancy has two floors and two sets of numbers: the slab designed to AS/NZS 1170.1, and the access floor panels sitting on pedestals above it. The furniture is specified again...
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Green Star and NABERS: where office furniture actually earns points
Green Star Fitouts became the only pathway for new fitout registrations on 1 October 2026, and it carries a credit named Responsible furniture. Which rating actually scores a ch...
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AS 1428 and the furniture schedule: which clearances are law and which are good practice
Part D4 of the NCC sets the doorway at 850 mm clear and never uses the word furniture. The clearance figures a furniture schedule actually needs, and where each one is published.
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Hospitality furniture in a workplace: what transfers and what does not
Most hospitality seating is tested to the same standard as an office visitor chair, at the same 110 kg. What does not transfer is table height, power and the reset.
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Which HÅG chair: Capisco, Puls, SoFi and Tion compared
Capisco, Capisco Puls, SoFi and Tion do four different jobs. The published seat heights, seat depths, tilt ranges and environmental declarations, and which family belongs on you...
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Orgatec 2026: which Cologne launches can go on an Australian schedule
Orgatec 2026 runs 27 to 30 October at Koelnmesse, with a central theme for the first time and five of the brands Geneva represents on the published exhibitor release. What has a...
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Do office pods need sprinklers? The base build questions a booth raises
A single person acoustic booth is furniture until it has a roof. Then the sprinkler, detection, lining and power questions move into the services package. What the NCC requires,...
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Which Klaro Design system: the bases, heights and spans decoded
Klaro Industrial Design builds its commercial range on four base systems and one height-adjustable engine. The published heights, depths, spans and configurations for COLUMN, OB...
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Aged care furniture: what the rules require, and when a chair becomes a restraint
No Australian Standard lists what goes in an aged care room. Standard 4 of the strengthened Quality Standards and the National Aged Care Design Principles and Guidelines do that...
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Timber chain of custody on a furniture package: what Australia's rules require
Eight tariff codes in Chapter 94 bring furniture inside Australia's illegal logging rules. What the importer has to gather, what certified has to mean, and the six lines to put ...
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Campus learning spaces: the furniture figures universities publish
Australian universities publish their furniture requirements as building standards for their own contractors. The area allowances, table sizes, chair clauses, sightline rules an...
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Office storage: depths, heights and the clearances nobody draws
A locker bank needs 1800 mm between facing rows and 900 mm to a seat or wall before a single door opens. Here are the published depths, heights and loads across commercial offic...
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