Part of a building that was once the home of London's local politics is now dedicated to another cause.
Up on the fifth floor of London's County Hall, an enormous space which for decades echoed with the flapping wings of roosting pigeons is bustling with people meeting over cups of coffee and tapping away at laptops.
Andrew Wordsworth standing in front of a wall with the names of different companies that have worked with Sustainable Ventures While hints of the building's former 1920s life remain, with the old office dividers still visible within the original wood parquet floor, the interior now looks very different, reflecting the eco-tech work going on.On the wall in the foyer is what looks like a large artwork, with curved strips of moss growing on a grey background above a drainpipe.
"We're really aware that the construction industry is particularly wasteful with its use of materials, or it can be. Office fit-outs contribute to a huge part of this and the average tenancy is just two years and 10 months.While the fifth floor corridors of County Hall were once filled with those running local politics in London...
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