by Chris | Apr 11, 2014 | Articles, Creative Places, Place Making, Uncategorized
It’s great when a plan works out. Last Wednesday, I participated in a London First forum entitled: “Go West and Innovate: Opportunity White City.” The purpose was to outline the progress being made on regenerating the White city area of the London Borough of...
by Chris | Mar 31, 2014 | Agile Working, Articles, FM futures, Future of Work, Workplace Strategy
Last week I contributed to a conference on the theme of the next-generation workforce. The organisers wanted me to share my experiences on what it takes to create a truly agile, creative and flexible working environment. As the audience comprised people from the HR...
by Chris | Mar 6, 2014 | Articles, Design & construction, sustainability, Workplace Strategy
Yesterday, I contributed to a debate hosted byEcobuild 2014 on the topic of – “Is back to basics the office of the future?” The panel consisted of: a developer, Derwent; an architect, AHMM and an academic,Royal College of Art. I had the privilege of joining this...
by Chris | Feb 11, 2014 | Articles, Creative Places, Design & construction, Place Making, Workplace Strategy
Last week, I had the opportunity to catch up with Argent’s Roger Madelin CBE to take a look at the work of the last decade the King’s Cross regeneration scheme. The marketing pack urges that the vision for King’s Cross aims to capture hearts and minds: after my...
by Chris | Jan 24, 2014 | Articles, BBC Estate story, Creative Places, Place Making, Workplace Strategy
Now that the BBC, amongst others, are comfortably settled at Media City UK – their new home in the North of England, I dropped in for a visit, just before Christmas, to check on progress. I came away feeling that the vision has truly come to life and that things...
