Accountancy and business advisory firm BDO has identified in its latest benchmarking report that offices with an ‘outstanding’ or ‘excellent’ Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Methodology (BREEAM) certification had total service charge costs that were 26 per cent higher than ...
Read More »BCO’s new research agenda includes 2030 vision for the office
The British Council for offices new research agenda focuses on four priority areas, including the development of the BCO’s ‘2030 vision for the office’. The four priority focus areas identified in the Research Programme Working Document, sets the agenda for ...
Read More »Three of the best
The BCO’s annual Awards celebrate the best in class of UK workplace design. FMJ focuses on three of this year’s award-winning office spaces and learns what BCO CEO Richard Kauntze and Chair of judges Mike Burton look for in a ...
Read More »Crane survey sees record number of office new starts in London
Deloitte’s latest London office crane survey sees the highest volume of new offices being built since 2005. The study was extended to cover seven central London areas and reveals that there are currently 124 schemes are under construction totalling more ...
Read More »BCO reveals the UK’s best workplaces
Barclays’ Glasgow campus was named ‘Best of the Best’ at the British Council for Offices (BCO) National Awards last night, and also took home the ‘Corporate Workplace’ award. Seven further winners were recognised as leading examples of excellence in office ...
Read More »Falling energy prices take the sting out of office cost rises
The cost of occupying office space in the UK has stabilised in 2023, according to property consultancy Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH). In its annual Total Office Cost Survey, LSH has analysed the total occupancy costs for offices in 54 key ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »Companies willing to pay more for greener offices
New research from property analytics software firm, CIM, has found that companies are willing to pay higher rents for more sustainable corporate office space following the rise of hybrid working. CIM’s latest report Tenant Preferences in the UK Office Market, surveyed 200 UK ...
Read More »Orega expands in the City
Flexible workspace provider, Orega, is expanding in the City of London to offer new high spec flexible workspace at 70 Mark Lane, EC3. The launch of the new space follows the completion of a new Management Agreement with a corporate ...
Read More »BCO names Midlands and Central England’s best-in-class offices
The Midlands and Central England’s most outstanding workplaces have been announced, with British Council for Offices Awards going to five office buildings across the region. Held at ICC in Birmingham, the BCO’s annual Midlands and Central Awards Lunch recognised projects ...
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