Ross Gardam™ is a team of designers, engineers and makers, who work collaboratively from ideation to realisation, producing contemporary lighting, furniture and objects. Designed for public and private spaces, every product is informed by a deep fascination in the layered experiences that exists between object and self. This experiential understanding combined with a unique outlook on form and function underpins each collection.
Ross Gardam™ products are hand-crafted in Melbourne, Australia, by local artisans and manufacturers with an unrivalled level of finish and expertise. The studio’s methodology combines innovative technology with traditional craft, resulting in products imbued with subtle historical and ritualistic references. This closeness to the maker and understanding of the material is central to the obsessive process of development involved in every Ross Gardam™ product.
Climate Change Action:
Ross Gardam™ is a LowC02 business certified by the Carbon Reduction Institute (CRI) under the NoCO2 Program. To achieve certification and become a low carbon business, Ross Gardam™ undertook the following process:
- Commissioned a LowCO2 audit from CRI to measure their operational carbon footprint for the 2019 financial year (FY2019). CRI’s LowCO2 audit follows the standards outlined by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development’s Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard (1).
- Committed to an ongoing program of reducing and offsetting their emissions within the LowCO2 certification standard including in CRI approved VCS and Gold Standard carbon offsetting programs, and
- Committed to ongoing annual auditing of their emissions.
What does LowCO2 certification mean?
By meeting the requirements of LowCO2 certification under the NoCO2 Program; Ross Gardam™ can display and use the LowCO2 logo and refer to their certification with CRI. Ross Gardam™ have measured and fully offset their emissions within the LowCO2 certification standard and therefore is a LowCO2 100% business.
