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COMMERCIAL OFFICES PROJECT REPORT
CATERING FOR EMPLOYEES
The building has high-spec catering facilities All images © Hufton+Crow
PROJECT FACTFILE
Research and design: December 2015 – April 2016 On-site:
April 2016 – September 2016 Size:
85,500 ft2 over five floors.
Project design (workplace strategy / change management / interior design / building engineering / cost, project management & sustainabil- ity consultancy): AECOM
Main contractor: Overbury
Loose furniture: The Furniture Practice Joinery:
Benchmark, Specialist Joinery Group Workstations: Herman Miller
“We can’t fit the whole company into one environment and it would be foolish of us to have created a space just for that,” says Stubbs. “When our head of buildings and places spoke, everyone could see and hear. It was fantastic.”
If the staircase was a challenge, it was one the team took up with gusto. The staircase was installed over a nine week period as if it were three separate staircases, with each portion completed before construction of the next level down was started.
A smash hit for staff
The office in total has been a smash hit with staff. Communications executive, Catherine Llewellyn, who helped show me around, says she can’t imagine going back to the “old way” of working which she describes as “1980s.” And AECOM being famous for its build- ing services practice, the building yields up its secrets to engineers who are starting out: part of the ceiling void is open so that they can “get under the hood” of a real installa- tion. In fact, the entire process can be examined by graduates. “You can say (to designers, engineers, cost-managers and clients) – don’t forget these things that could catch you out,
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The most striking aspect of AECOM’s office is the huge, open staircase that connects four of the internal floors
which might be hard to envisage,” says Stubbs “The exposed ceiling services detail looks inexpensive, but exposed steelwork requires specialist intumescent paint finishing that could drive up cost if there are large quantities to spray. For a graduate designer or engineer, these things might not be high on the radar, but working in a space that offers a training and learning platform is invaluable for career-development.”
Stubbs says that staff retention was a big worry moving to a new home, but AECOM’s recent 100 day review of the office revealed a very positive reduction in turnover figures.
“The workplace plays a very important part in retaining and attracting staff,” he says, “and I think we are at the top of our game when it comes to architecture and engineering, construction services and the environment.”
ADF APRIL 2017
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