CFA Guide to Sustainability 2026–2027 Announced – Be Part Of It

The CFA Guide to Sustainability will be back for 2026–2027! Publishing online in June 2026, the campaign to develop a new and wholly updated version of this valuable guide begins now. Over the years, this has grown and matured to become an indispensable resource for the contract flooring sector and wider construction industry, providing ‘need to know’ information and resources on this most important issue.

Each year the response of the industry steps up to meet the challenges of the climate crisis, but we all understand there is much more to do. Hence the importance of our annual guide and the resources, examples of best practice and inspiration that it provides. Last year we captured the mood of the industry by focusing on ‘collaboration’ as our theme. It taught us that no one company can achieve the step change that the industry needs by working in isolation. On the contrary, effective waste collection, reuse, take-back and recycling schemes, not to mention initiatives such as product passports, to enable recyclers to know what is actually contained within products, all require collaboration and collective working.

For 2026–2027 we are developing the concept further with the theme of ‘scaling sustainability’. In other words, taking the collaborative approach to focus on how we take those efforts and scale them up to become the default circular solution in all respects: scalable, assessable, commercially viable and profitable. This will build on last year’s collaboration theme, while also aligning with Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) schemes, industry stewardship, product identification, product passports, circular innovation for flooring products design, logistics for moving and recycling waste, and more. It will also encourage data-led decision-making and industry case studies, such as the CISUFLO trials that CFA recently oversaw with the support of FITA in the UK.

The 2026–2027 Guide to Sustainability will include high quality ‘thought leadership’ articles, researched and written by the CFA’s editorial team, inviting content from contractors, manufacturers, legislators, recyclers and others. However, there are also advertising and paid editorial opportunities within the guide to allow businesses in the contract flooring sector to communicate to the whole industry their latest product and company initiatives on the sustainability topic.

The guide will particularly welcome case studies and any digital content with a sustainability theme. Although it will, as always, be primarily a digital publication, it is the intention this year to reproduce sections of it in the print editions of Contract Flooring Journal (CFJ) during the following year. This will provide even more value for those who get involved with next June’s online version!

To find out more about advertising opportunities in the Guide, please contact stuart.bourne@kick-startpublishing.co.uk. To enquire about paid-for editorial insertions, please contact david.strydom@kick-startpublishing.co.uk.

This year’s guide can be viewed on the CFA website at: https://cfa.org.uk/userfiles/Downloads/210816140200_6432-CFA-Guide-to-Sustainability/CFA_Sustainability_Guide_2025_2026.pdf