Space-pod expands logistics facility as office move & churn work increases

Perhaps it’s our recent trade advertising campaign, perhaps our Google campaign or perhaps it’s just the economic reality, but space-pod has seen a massive upturn in businesses needing to move premises.
Certainly lots of businesses need to rationalise the space that they need for their teams and delivering this is at the heart of what space-pod does best. Many companies have reached the end of their lease and have negotiated a better deal and need space-pod not only to help them move everything efficiently to minimise downtime, but also help them maximise the space in their new offices.
Our solutions often include moving teams, their furniture, their storage and their I.T. ‘out-of-hours’. We provide all the rental crates and vehicles and do all the fetching and carrying, employing specialist teams to move IT systems. We label up all the crates and make sure they get to the right place at the right time so that everyone is operational as soon as possible.
Delivering on our promises time after time, project after project means that our storage and logistics facilities have had to grow as our own business has grown and we have recently committed to another vehicle and have significantly increased the size of our secure storage and distribution facility.
To explore how moving your business doesn’t have to be as daunting as you would think in a free, no-commitment meeting contact space-pod today>

Space-pod proves to be a major draw at the home of the 2010 Ryder Cup

Amid the current financial turmoil, the FM Sector the FM & Property Event held at the Celtic Manor Resort, South Wales, proved that there are still opportunities to be benefit from when you commit a little time to explaining the challenges that you face and exploring your options with an industry experts such as space-pod.

The 5 star venue is soon to host the 2010 Ryder Cup and has recently been voted as the number one conference hotel in the UK. The purpose of the event was to initiate and develop business relationships between senior FM practitioners from the most influential organisations, with top product and service suppliers, in a stimulating environment to discuss key industry issues and mutually beneficial solutions with a special focus on saving money.

Director of Global Business Events Lee Williams welcomed all the attending Facilities Managers and Supplier representatives and explained the event programme along with the necessary health and safety briefing. Lee urged participants to remain optimistic despite the current economic conditions. He quoted the former US president during the 1930s recession Calvin Coolidge,"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race".

The combined annual total spend of the 65 delegates who attended exceeded £2 billion and post event feedback proved that the event was a great success with 90% of the attendees saying that they found the event ‘Excellent’ and that they would consider attending again.

The excellent keynote speech by Professor of Forecasting at De Montford University James Woudhuysen was very well received. Woudhuysen explained how the current economic times give FM’s the opportunity to shine, explaining that “cutting costs and taking short-term measures have proved the main responses to the downturn. FM’s should however go beyond survival and partnership, toward helping the firm increase revenues engage in innovation and leadership”.

Space-pod MD, Kevin Parker added “This has been a good event for us. We have met professionals from a wide sector of industries, all of whom are facing head-on the challenges that space-pod was established to help solve. It is pleasing, not only to hear again so many times in 2-days that what space-pod does is extremely beneficial to facilities professionals, but also that they all understood how our approach is fundamentally different to that of our competitors and that it becomes even more invaluable in the current economic climate”.

If you would like to explore similar challenges with one of the space-pod team in a free, no-commitment meeting contact space-pod today>

ACM Academy Development Centre completed by space-pod

After working with space-pod for several years, The Academy of Contemporary Music (ACM) again turned to the commercial interiors design and build specialists, space-pod to redevelop and convert an old Yates wine bar into its new 'Artist Development Centre' in Guildford.

The scope of this challenging but impressive project was to:

• Strip-out of old structure of the Yates Wine Bar.
• Build acoustic sound-proof internal walls, floors and ceilings for practice rooms, studio spaces, teaching areas and recording studio.
• Electrics, plumbing, decoration, air-conditioning and specialist lighting.
• Signage and finishing touches.

This is where we started:

 

And this is what we delivered:

This is a detail shot of some of the acoustic sound-proofing that we constructed for the studio spaces.

need to fit more into your office?

With ‘office space’ being such a major cost to most businesses, many companies decide to work with space-pod to help them minimise the foot-print of their office space and maximise the volume of the space to ensure that staff have a pleasant environment, which allows then to be as effective and productive as possible.

Space-pod will work with you and utilise our computer-aided design bureau to give you a dazzling view of how an interior can work best to maximise the space and the return on rental. Whilst we’re ‘designing’, we’re also be ‘planning’ to ensure your environment meets all the appropriate health and safety legislation and the needs of your workforce to help keep them comfortable and injury-free.

do the office bin challengeMost office bins cost about £5, but on one space evaluation that we did, the actual cost of the space that each bin took-up was a staggering £288 every year, before we helped them to plan their office space much more effectively.

Call 08704 321515 to request a no-fee meeting to analyse your needs, evaluate your premises and show you how to get your people and space working in perfect harmony.

If you’re located in London or the Home Counties and have between 20 and 500 desk-based staff, then we can guarantee that we will have a positive effect on your business, so let’s meet for a ‘no-cost’ evaluation of your needs and the challenges that you face – what have you got to lose?

call us on 08704 321515 or find out more at www.space-pod.co.uk