Full-Floor Office Decommissioning for a Coworking Operator
WALTER cleared 15,000 sq ft across 2 floors in under 2 weeks — furniture, IT equipment, and fixtures — with zero disruption to occupied floors above and below.
Client: Confidential — Real Estate / Coworking
The Problem
A coworking operator needed to decommission 2 full floors during a lease transition. The building remained occupied on adjacent floors, so the work required quiet hours, freight elevator coordination, and fast execution to meet the landlord handover deadline.
Project Scope
- Materials / Assets
- Office furniture (desks, chairs, partitions), IT equipment, kitchen appliances, fixtures, carpet tiles
- Locations
- Midtown Manhattan, floors 8 and 9
- Timeline
- 10 business days
Solutions Used
Execution
- Site walk-through with facilities manager to map logistics — freight access, quiet hours, staging areas.
- Phased removal: IT equipment first (data-bearing devices), then furniture, then fixtures.
- Donation-eligible items (desks, chairs in good condition) separated and routed to community partners with donation receipts.
- Remaining materials sorted by stream at WALTER's facility — metals, wood, electronics, mixed.
- Carpet tiles and partition panels recycled through specialised downstream partners.
- Handover pack delivered: schedule log, chain-of-custody, donation receipts, disposal certificates, ESG summary.
Results
Diversion Rate
89%
CO₂e Avoided
11.2 metric tons
Method: EPA WARM model, recycling vs landfill baseline
Space Recovered
15,000 sq ft (2 full floors)
Actual Timeline
Completed in 8 business days
Weight by Stream
- Furniture fixtures 12,600 lbs
- Electronics 3,200 lbs
- Metals 1,800 lbs
- Cardboard paper 900 lbs
- Mixed residue 1,500 lbs
Documents Issued
- chain-of-custody
- certificate-destruction
- donation-receipts
- downstream-documentation
- esg-impact-report
“They handled everything — the building coordination, the donations, the reporting. We just handed them the keys and got the handover pack at the end.”