Coworking space and nesting boxes for birds
Coworking space and nesting boxes for birds
New office complexes offer a comprehensive environment for supporting busines
Decision on the choice of the office is made mainly through the prism of a spreadsheets, but the quality of the work environment that the company can provide to its employees is equally important. At the heavily competitive job market, it becomes a part of the recruitment offer. Office building providing functional facilities and the latest technology can help making decision about taking a job in a company.
According to Walter Herz specialists, the most popular complexes among the companies looking for office space are those providing business support environment. They emphasize that it is not only the attributes of the buildings themselves, but also the use of the potential of the areas surrounding office buildings. In the neighborhood of the buildings, the developers are trying to create attractive public space. In Warsaw, they follow the lead of Europejski square, which contributed to the success of the Warsaw Spire.
Comprehensive infrastructure
New office complexes are designed in such a way to seamlessly integrate with the environment and to be alive outside working hours. When planning investments, developers focus not only on the arrangement of buildings, but also on an attractive way to integrate projects with the urban space. Interesting public space arranged in the form of recreational zones and urban passages is usually created around the buildings. Pedestrian areas with retail and service providers, restaurants and cafés are also incorporated into the buildings.
In some locations, investors create a space similar to urban backyards, where in the summer one can enjoy team sports, open-air workout, or watch a movie in the outdoor cinema. The new investments include squares with fountains, surrounded by cafés. There are also office projects involving the construction of basketball, badminton or volleyball courts, boulle track, or climbing walls.
Bicycle stations are becoming an integral part of office building surroundings. The buildings are equipped with complete facilities for cyclists including modern bicycle parking, repair points as well as showers and changing rooms for cyclists. Within the complex, one can use free-access Wi-Fi and smartphone chargers.
Developers are trying to diversify the functions of the office buildings themselves. They begin to include not only conference, event and catering zones, but also fitness clubs, medical facilities and kindergartens. - This way, investors can provide their office tenants with comprehensive infrastructure. These types of facilities are the most successful on the market - admit Walter Herz experts.
Towards Eco
Large investments in the office segment are mostly prepared in accordance with the standards of green and energy efficient construction. These facilities are environmentally friendly, which is confirmed by relevant certificates, and it also brings benefits to tenants in the form of reduction of utilities cost. Certified green buildings also ensure good quality of internal environment in the offices by providing the right amount of clean air. It is extremely important for the well-being of people who spend most of their time inside the buildings.
According to Walter Herz consultants, apart from protection of the environment, the certification is now focusing more on people. - A new WELL certificate, which is extremely demanding system of building assessment focusing only on the comfort it provides to the employees, is currently a leader - say experts.
Green patios, vegetable gardens and green terraces, which are often located on the top floors of the building, offering a beautiful view of the city skyline are also building healthy space. Following the example of other countries, there are nesting boxes and beehives in the office buildings in Poland. Followed by growing melliferous plants that help the insects survive. According to the estimations, there are over 400 beehives set on the roofs of public buildings in Warsaw.
Mobile phone is becoming the main tool in the everyday functioning of the new office buildings. Developers bring solutions compatible with private mobile devices, mainly due to the requirements of the youngest employees of the companies. Different kinds of smartphone operated applications are used in the technologically advanced office buildings.
Through them, one can enter the building, book a conference room, book parking space, check the services available in the office building and its surroundings, or order lunch to the office. Thanks to the systems used on the premises, one can also see who has a free seat in the car and going in the same direction.
Developers also offer more and more electric cars, which are available to all users of the building by making a reservation with a simple application. Cars open and close with the virtual key downloaded to the phone.
In the modern buildings, number plates are automatically recognized at the entrance to the garage, eliminating the need to stop at the scanner. And in garages one can usually find stations for charging electric vehicles. – Speaking of power supply, developers provide full electricity security. The newest complexes are usually supplied by several independent sources of energy, and yet tenants can often also install their own generators - inform Walter Herz specialists.
Coworking and start-up platform
Experts admit that the interest in the facilities using new technologies is high among the companies looking for office space. - Different types of applications used in the office buildings, not only allow to use practical amenities, but also integrate the staff working in the building and promote the exchange of views and ideas – add Walter Herz specialists.
Leading real estate development companies are going one step further. On the basis of advanced technologies they create space in their investments for cooperation between start-ups and corporations. - One of the developers in the emerging complex in Warsaw is planning on creating a concept that has worked in the company’s Belgian investments. MeetDistrict is a coworking space, which allows even the smallest companies to find themselves in an office building - inform Walter Herz experts.
The Heart Warsaw platform joining start-ups with banks and international corporations will also be present on the premises of the abovementioned facility. As part of this project will be thematic programs will be developed, and some of them would later be used in the complex. And that, according to Walter Herz specialists, means translating direct and practical functions created in the office building into tangible business benefits for its tenants.
Author: Walter Herz
