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Sustainable surcharge

New research suggests that companies are willing to pay higher rents for more sustainable corporate office space following the rise of hybrid working. Should the sustainability attributes of some buildings be enhanced to command a rent premium or should standard ...

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Orega completes new Management Agreement in City of London

Flexible workspace provider, Orega, has completed another new Management Agreement to create further high spec flexible workspace at 70 Gracechurch Street, EC3. The 37,000 sq ft of flexible workspace, which will open in January 2024, will be newly refurbished to ...

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Employers are reducing office space as workers still attend offices less than two days a week 

Workers are still only coming into the office an average of 1.75 days a week, a study of 119 workplaces in 22 countries by AWA, a global workplace consultancy, has found. The responses, collated in April-May 2023 and representing organisations ...

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Office lease lengths may be falling in the UK but workspace footprint is increasing

Responding to reports from property management platform, Re-Leased, that the length of UK office leases has fallen to the lowest on record, global workplace creation expert Unispace, is warning firms against rash decisions regarding office footprint. The study – Returning ...

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Office landlords implement efficiency-boosting measures to cut energy costs

A new study has identified which energy-saving measures are the most widely used and which landlords are prioritising in the years ahead as ambitions for a net-zero commercial real estate sector become increasingly focused. The market research, which surveyed 250 ...

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Galliford Try appointed for £72m office remodelling contract

St Martin’s Property Investments Limited has appointed Galliford Try’s Building London and South East Commercial business to carry out the remodelling and refurbishment of Adelaide House, a 1920’s Art Deco office block in central London. Under the terms of the ...

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Ready for office

The 2022 British Council for Offices Annual Conference brought together stakeholders in the development, investment and occupation of buildings to discuss the challenges ahead for the office sector To remain relevant we need to evolve, said BCO President and Conference ...

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How Swedish companies are planning their return to the office

Two questions on both employees and employers’ minds right now are, how and when will we get back to the office. “When” might be more difficult to answer, but companies in Sweden have now started to discuss the “how”. Flowscape, ...

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Has COVID-19 permanently changed our view of the office?

The corridors are buzzing with rumours about what’s going to happen when offices reopen – or at least the virtual corridors are! Are employees going to accept returning to their old lives, including commuting on public transport and working in ...

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