Manchester City Council
The brief
The refurbishment of the offices at Heron House – a 123,000 sq ft, 6 floor landmark office and retail building in central Manchester – is the first example of the Council’s vision to create modern, comfortable, flexible workspaces to improve productivity within the organisation. The key elements of the brief were to:
- Trial new ways of working, with hot desks and meeting spaces booked electronically;
- Provide an alternative to traditional pedestals for storage of files, stationery and personal belongings.
A building contractor was appointed to refurbish the space.
The solution
Egan Reid’s design includes:
- Cost-effective bench workstations with clean-line, uncluttered aesthetics, ideal for cable management requirements and easy to reconfigure;
- A ‘hot box’ storage solution, designed to be portable, accommodate files, notebook PCs and stationery, hang from the desktop screens to free up valuable desk space or fit into a filing drawer
- Side filer metal storage units providing individual storage for files alongside the ‘hot box’;
- Lockers for storing personal items;
- Desktop power modules for notebook users.
Vibrant colours have been chosen to create a modern, stylish, dynamic environment, with wall, flooring, upholstery and screen finishes carefully matched.