CGC support relocation of 400 employees to Canary Wharf HQ and complete workplace transformation during the Covid-19 lockdown.

CGC are delighted to have delivered a substantial workplace fit-out to one of the largest global law firms, based in Canary Wharf. Working alongside the clients internal Project Managers, this phased refurbishment took 25 weeks, whilst maintaining adjacent ‘live’ practice area environment throughout. Building services enhancements were made to improve energy efficiencies from air conditioning and lighting.

Client Objectives Met:
• Relocated 400 staff out of a satellite office back into the HQ building, by adapting available space and employing a higher agile working person to desk ratio. (7:10 agile workplace)
• Re-used existing furniture, FF&E and IT/AV equipment from property exited, supplementing only where required to support the agile strategy.
• Managed a complex phased migration programme to ensure that the re-used office equipment could be re-utilised without loss of service to migrating staff.
• Installed flexible meeting pod furniture to allow the workplace design to adapt and change in the future without extensive air conditioning & lighting alterations.
• Removed a meeting room suite to provide additional agile office work space which in turn allowed the client to dispose of a satellite office of circa 35,000 sq ft.
• Decommissioned satellite office floors following the client exercising a lease break. Releasing the floors back to the landlord resulted in the agreement of dilapidation costs between the parties.

“CGC’s successful delivery of the agile workplace fit-outs, in a ‘live’ office environment, is a testament to their ability to integrate into our business. Maintaining government guidelines and applying strict health & safety controls during Covid-19, the project quality, programme and budget deliverables were all achieved”

Head of Facilities – Legal, Canary Wharf.

Return to work Benefits:

• Reduced the clients overall square footage of leased space and associated property costs.
• Provided more alternative work settings, incorporating team working areas and multi-function focus work settings.
• Reduced the agile working ratio.
• Provided enhanced AV & VC solutions, offering further connectivity with remote clients & staff.
• Provided flexible furniture solutions that can be repositioned without lighting or air conditioning alterations.
• Increased the kitchen / vend space to create a central collaboration area and enlarged the refreshment facility whilst maintaining social distance requirements.

For more information please contact Stephen Booker, Project Director.



CGC deliver major refurbishment to a Client Meeting Suite, Canary Wharf.

CGC are delighted to have successfully delivered a substantial refurbishment to the client meeting rooms of one of the largest global law firms, based in Canary Wharf. Working alongside the clients internal Project Managers, the refurbishment was completed in 5 phases over 50 weeks, whilst maintaining an operational and functional meeting room facility.

Building services enhancements were made to improve energy efficiencies from air conditioning and lighting within project as well as sustainable upcycling of existing doors and frames.

The refurbishment and upgrade of the AV & VC technologies have been found to be of great benefit in the wake of COVID-19, offering best in class online facilities for meeting clients in a virtual environment.

‘‘CGC has built a very strong 20 year relationship with us, by successfully delivering to our expectations. Most recently CGC have very effectively delivered a new client meeting facility fit-out project in our London HQ, helping us to transform to a flexible meeting facility with the latest AV & VC facilities, which are proving beneficial in the current Covid environment”

Head of Facilities – Legal, Canary Wharf

Clients objectives met:
• Refurbished the rooms and common areas, including decoration, furniture and technology to give the rooms a more modern look & feel.
• Completed essential maintenance of the M&E services that support the client meeting rooms, required under the lease obligations.
• Reconfigured several rooms to ensure flexibility around room size aligns more closely with the needs of the business.
• Upgraded the technology supporting the rooms, improving connectivity as well as telephone and video conference capabilities.
• Used the space footplate of the meeting room more effectively and efficiently.
• Constructed six new meeting rooms – utilising redundant space in the adjacent common areas – to replace the nine rooms being removed to create the extended agile working space.
• Increased the client meeting suite capacity by re-planning and using redundant space adjacent to the current facility.

For more information please contact Andy Driver, Project Director.