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SUBSEA 7 OPTIMISES THE MANAGEMENT OF ITS CAR
PARK IN SUTTON The management of company car parks is a big concern for FMs. Indeed, it represents a signifi cant cost for companies (on average, a car park space can cost between £1200 and £1700 per year). In most cases, 10% to 30% of spaces are left unused and this has increased further due to the COVID-19 pandemic which has opened up opportunities for working from home.
Subsea 7, a specialist in the delivery of offshore projects and services for the evolving energy industry, has an underground car park at its offi ce in Sutton, England. This car park has a mix of bays that are allocated permanently and bays which are kept vacant for ad-hoc use. With an employee/parking space ratio of around 5:1, Subsea 7 was looking for a solution that would enable quick and easy access for its people to book a parking space whenever available.
At the end of 2020, after a lot of searching, the company chose MyCarSpot, a French start-up which offers a digital solution to manage company shared spaces, and, especially, car park access control.
Tim Peterson, Manager for Building Security at Subsea 7, explained: “We were a little worried at fi rst,
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because MyCarSpot was based in France and we were unsure about the level of technical support we would receive and how quickly we would get a response. However, right from the fi rst online meetings, communication with the support team has been very easy and I can say with confi dence that we are happy with the service that MyCarSpot team provides.”
Thanks to the MyCarSpot web and mobile app, employees who have an allocated space can release it remotely and change its status to available even when they are not at the offi ce. This allows the spaces, and the ones vacant for ad-hoc use, to be booked by other employees in just a few clicks on the app. The vacant spaces are automatically distributed by the MyCarSpot algorithm without any action from the team who manages the car park.
Peterson continued: “For our team who manage the car park, it is a breath of fresh air. The application distributes spaces automatically and gives them more time to focus on their other tasks. Car Park users are very pleased with how user friendly the application is and how the app sends them their confi rmations super quick. For parking bay owners
it couldn’t be easier as they have full control of their space and only have to confi rm their usage requirements every two weeks - this cuts out the middle man, which we love.”
In addition to space reservation and allocation, MyCarSpot manages the access control of the Subsea 7 car park thanks to an ANPR camera (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) installed at the entrance gate. “Having the ANPR installed has made controlling access to our car park effortless. Every 60 seconds, the vehicle list gets updated on the cloud and if the driver has registered his vehicle and reserved/confi rmed a space, the gate automatically opens to allow entry,” explained Tim Peterson.
This is one of the many benefi ts of this app for Subsea 7 and today, more than 200 of their employees use the app and share the use of the car park. Thanks to the statistics provided by the app, the security team can follow the occupancy evolution of the car park and they have seen, “a massive transformation in how many of empty spaces are now being used every day. Overall, we are extremely happy with MyCarSpot, the system is easy to operate, the app is user friendly.”
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