Joseph Priestley Building, Birmingham City University
Workplace Refurbishment

This project was a shell and core fit out to relocate over 500 of the University’s Professional Services staff to Birmingham city centre into a four storey (plus basement) building. The departments included Estates, Campus Management Services, HR, Finance, IT, Learning and Library Resources, and Academic Services.

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There was a substantial period of stakeholder consultation with each department participating in a numerous design sessions with us. In addition to this, representatives from all departments participated in a furniture showroom day in Clerkenwell, London to view furniture options and try them out.

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The resulting design took new ways of working for University staff to another level with each floor having an element of hot desking. Each floor has a feature kitchen area to promote staff socialising as well as an extensive selection of breakout spaces to use for informal working and team meetings. The ground floor housed a staff only café area as well as only four formal meeting rooms for the whole building due to the variety of breakout spaces on each floor.