Cityspace wins Evergreen refurbishment

We are delighted to announce that Cityspace has been appointed by the shipping and logistics company Evergreen to design and build a £2.5 million refurbishment at Evergreen’s head office on Euston Road.

The focus of this project is to repurpose a ground floor atrium area, office suite and redundant stairwell, and refurbish an existing first floor boardroom into a modern, technology-led meeting space. 

As part of Cityspace’s designs, the atrium area will be converted into a light and airy workspace and a separate ground floor office space created that can be sublet with its own separate entranceway. An existing stairwell from the atrium will be reclaimed to create a new executive lounge and tea point area adjacent to the refurbished boardroom.

Now Launched... Homespace - a complete work from home solution

The team at Cityspace, in association with our furniture partner Office Portfolio, are delighted to announce the launch of Homespace, a complete work from home solution to help companies provide employees with safe, ergonomic and well-designed home workspaces that meet HSE and DSE requirements.

Under COVID-19, many companies have suddenly been faced with the challenge of requiring employees to work from home for the first time, fulltime.

Homespace has been created to help you rapidly assess and support staff working from home with furniture, lighting and accessories that fulfil your duty of care to provide a safe home workplace environment.

In addition, we’re also playing our part to help the UK economy bounce back by sourcing 90% of our collection from quality British manufacturers.

If you’d like to find out more about Homespace, please click here to visit the website or contact us by calling the team on 020 3946 8311 or emailing info@homespaceoffice.co.uk.

Awards, refurbishments and making offices COVID-19 secure

Here’s an update on the latest news from Cityspace...

We’re a finalist in the Mixology2020 awards!

We are delighted to announce that Cityspace has been shortlisted as a finalist for the Mixology20 Awards for our design and fit-out of Raymond James’ office at 25 Ropemaker Street, EC2.

Each year, the Mixology Awards celebrate the very best of the projects, products and people in the commercial interiors industry. This year, due to the coronavirus, the winners won’t be announced until 2021, but in the meantime the whole team at Cityspace is extremely chuffed to make the finalists in our first ever awards entry!

Keep calm and refurbish your office

Despite the continued coronavirus shutdown of many workplaces, the world has not stopped and clients have been taking advantage of their shuttered offices to complete refurbishment works.

For our client, the Japanese multinational Marubeni, we’ve reduced the floor plan of their offices in Gresham Street, EC2, from 3 floors to 2 in order to precede a pending lease break and therefore deliver significant savings in rent moving ahead.

In New Brook Street, Mayfair, we have renovated the offices of alternative investment manager Hengistbury Investment Partners, upgrading a fit-out we completed for them 8 years ago to create a stylish, modern and flexible new workspace.

Also in the West End, we are currently relocating our existing client, the art dealer Edward Speelman, to create a new gallery and offices in Saville Row.  

Making offices COVID-19 secure

For the past 3 months, the team at Cityspace has been very busy helping clients to replan, reconfigure and retrofit their offices to create a safe, social distanced environment for both staff and visitors.

Deploying our 10 Standards, we have been helping businesses create workplace risk assessments and then install COVID-secure products, including reception and workstation screens, signage, barriers and hand sanitising stations.

Many of our clients are also upgrading the filters on the air conditioning systems by installing HEPA filters as a means of capturing airborne coronaviruses that enter the system.

Get in touch

If you need any help or advice with adapting your workspace, relocations or putting in place measures to combat COVID-19, please get in touch with the Cityspace team by calling us on 0207 638 4250 or emailing info@cityspacemanagement.co.uk.

Simple, cost-effective solutions to reduce risk

As businesses prepare for a return to the office, we have been working with a number of clients to install Perspex screens around work areas to help reduce the potential spread of COVID-19 within the office environment.

A major difficulty faced by clients when preparing their office to become COVID-19 secure is finding products which are of a high standard and offer value for money. Unfortunately, it appears the market has been flooded with lower quality goods being sold in some instances at overinflated prices.

To help clients create a safe office environment and provide reassurance for both staff and visitors, Cityspace has assessed and curated a comprehensive range of products that include signage, barriers and hand sanitisers, as well as screens. We offer a range of Perspex and plexiglass protective screens to section off desk areas, workstations and reception areas, which are easy to install and can be moved or removed as required. 

For many of our clients, these screens form part of a wider package of measures we have been helping them put in place, including Cityspace’s 10 Standards to help businesses create a workplace risk assessment in order to rapidly re-plan, reconfigure and retrofit their office environments for the return of workers and visitors.

If you would like to find out more, or just need help or advice in managing risk and adapting your office, please do not hesitate to get in touch with the Cityspace team at info@cityspacemanagement.co.uk or telephone us on 0207 638 4250.

Cityspace launches a range of back to work products

All the products you need to make your office COVID-19 secure

To help businesses prepare to reopen their offices, we have today launched a range of 99 products to help make your office COVID-19 safe and secure for the return of staff. 

In conversations with our clients, we have observed that many were finding it difficult to both locate and assess appropriate and value-for-money products. So, in response, the team at Cityspace has sourced and curated a comprehensive range of products that include:

• A selection of floor mats for reception areas and common zones to demarcate 2-metre spaces and promote social distancing 

• A range of Perspex and plexiglass protective screens for sectioning off desks and workstation areas

• A choice of carpet tiles to provide signage for traffic flows through the office and reduce congestion points

• Stretch barriers and rope stands to mark off key areas where queuing may be required, such as for lifts and toilet areas

• Pedal-operated hand sanitising units and a range of Sani Pac’s consisting of facemasks, gloves, anti-bac wipes and hand sanitisers 

• A wide range of stickers and signage to promote COVID-19 best practice and signpost where staff numbers need to be restricted to maintain social distancing

This range of products complements Cityspace’s 10 Standards to help businesses create a workplace risk assessment and manage their return to the office, which we launched on 11 May. Over the past 4 weeks, we have been helping many clients to rapidly re-plan, reconfigure and retrofit their office environments to protect the safety of both staff and visitors.

In addition, we also now have a number of solutions to help businesses upgrade their office air conditioning filters in order to create cleaner air quality within the office, and provide further reassurance to staff that their health and wellbeing is of uppermost importance.

If you would like to find out more about this new product range, or just need help or advice in managing risk and adapting your office to the new environment, please do not hesitate to get in touch with the Cityspace team at info@cityspacemanagement.co.uk or telephone us on 0207 638 4250. 

A comprehensive and practical guide to managing workplace risk

To watch our presentation on Cityspace’s 10 Standards to help businesses create a workplace risk assessment and manage their return to the office, please click on the video below…

COVID-19 - Operational Standards for Workplaces in England (May 2020)

Cityspace launches 10 Standards to help businesses return to work

A comprehensive, effective and practical guide for managing workplace risk

​One of the key challenges for many organisations planning a return to their workplace is that the pre-COVID office was designed to encourage high levels of human interaction to promote communication and collaboration. 

With businesses now required to limit physical interaction and ensure social distancing, companies need to rapidly re-plan, reconfigure and retrofit their office environments to protect the safety of both staff and visitors. And for those businesses over 5 employees, it is a legal requirement to write and enact a risk assessment of how the company will follow the Government’s COVID-19 guidance.

To help businesses to create a workplace risk assessment and manage this transition, we have today launched 10 Standards which set out measures for businesses to adopt whilst the pandemic continues, based on the best currently available evidence and in line with government and NHS guidelines. The standards have been drawn up by Dr Linda Seward, drawing on her expertise as a former Head of Accreditation at the Royal College of Nursing and Assistant Director of Nursing at NHS Hammersmith and Fulham hospital.

The 10 Standards are a comprehensive, effective and practical guide, covering:

1. Management & leadership 

2. Communication 

3. Ways of working

4. Social distancing

5. Building navigation & geography

6. Infection control & hygiene

7. Health & well-being

8. Workplace equipment & resources

9. Building facilities

10. Workplace alterations & fit-out

For each, we provide a clear description of the standard, the interventions required to support safe and effective implementation, and the policies and procedures that will demonstrate what evidence-based measures have been put into practice to meet the standard.

If you would like to find out more about our 10 Standards, or just need any help or advice in managing risk and adapting your office to this new environment, please do not hesitate to get in touch with the Cityspace team at info@cityspacemanagement.co.uk or telephone us on 0207 638 4250. 

Cityspace Management’s Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic

As the coronavirus situation continues to evolve, we wanted to share with you the steps we have taken and will continue to take to keep our clients, contractors and team safe and our sites clean.  

We have been in contact with all our regular contractors to ensure that they are following the public health advice with regard to self-isolation. Any tradespeople who recently travelled to destinations of major infections will therefore not be sent to any of our sites, nor will those workers with cough, cold or flu-like symptoms.

The Cityspace team and all trades are also following the public health advice on the avoidance of cross-contamination and the importance of handwashing, and hand cleaners and sanitisers are provided on-site for all to use.  

All site managers and team members at Cityspace are closely following on a daily basis the ongoing Government recommendations with respect to the pandemic, to ensure our processes and measures are fully aligned with the latest advice.

Finally, from a business perspective, we know that these are very challenging times for our clients which may have significant impacts on the future use and configuration of their workplace environments. The team at Cityspace is here to help with any advice or solutions for remote working, design and planning, or reducing operational costs by changing how your office is used. If you need our help, please do not hesitate to get in touch on info@cityspacemanagement.co.uk.

A quiet revolution in construction

At Cityspace, 50% of the office refurbishment work we do is in occupied spaces, meaning that we are either adjacent, above or below spaces where people are trying to work. During the course of these works, we plan carefully to minimise disruption, dust, dirt and debris while work is undertaken.

Feedback from our clients and our site managers suggests that the biggest distraction when you are an office worker close to a construction site is that of noise. It’s hard to concentrate on work, make calls or have meetings with an electric saw roaring in the background. 

That’s why we’re quietly proud of our latest piece of equipment to reduce noise disruption when working in occupied spaces - a mobile, noise-reducing cutting station.

So, instead of using electric saws to cut wood, conduit, cable trays and pipe on the office floor, this can all happen in the cutting station which dampens the noise, minimises vibration and keeps dust and sparks within the unit.

Good news for our contractors refitting the office and even better news for our office neighbours working nearby. To find out more about how Cityspace can help you with your next office refurbishment in situ, please contact the team on info@cityspacemanagement.co.uk.