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Beyond Sustainability: Rethinking Hospitality Design for a Circular Economy

The hospitality industry is built on a cycle of consumption that treats spaces as disposable and materials as worthless the moment they leave the showroom floor. Trend-driven refurbishments generate enormous waste, carbon emissions, and cost – often without delivering any meaningful business benefit. Most of what comes out goes to landfill or incineration. The cost is enormous and almost all of it is avoidable.

In Beyond Sustainability, designer Jeremy Grove sets out a different way of working – ten practical steps, grounded in circular thinking, that address how we design, specify, manufacture, and maintain the spaces people inhabit. Drawing on two decades of hospitality projects, factory visits across three continents, and a formative encounter with Cradle to Cradle pioneer Michael Braungart, Grove makes the case that quality, responsibility, and profitability are the same thing.

Part memoir, part practical framework, this book is for designers, developers, operators, and anyone who believes the built environment can be done better.

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