Space strategists · since 1994

Helping clients understand their space

Reality vs Perception

Accurate drawings, hard evidence about how the space is used, and the people to carry out whatever follows: a move, an audit, a fit-out, a chargeback.

A world map shaded by how many studies we have run in each country
Where the work has taken us: 26 countries and counting
A close-up of a floor plan, each desk marked with how it was found and the whole area shaded by how heavily it is used

Utilisation studies

Detailed studies of how the building is being used. Surveyors walk every floor several times a day, over one or two working weeks.

  • Desks, meeting rooms, breakout and support space, all counted
  • Real-time reporting: peak and average use by team, space type, day and hour
  • Heatmaps on your own plans, building as the survey runs
  • Run worldwide, in twelve languages on the tablet
How a study works
Bar chart: workstation utilisation fell from 50.1 per cent before Covid to 28.9 per cent after, and meeting and other space from 24.8 to 14.4 per cent

Benchmarking

A number on its own settles no arguments. Every study we run is set against hundreds of others, gathered the same way since 2013.

  • 605 studies across 45 sectors, 1,295 buildings, 26 countries
  • Pre and post Covid, so you can see what actually changed
  • Filter to your sector, region, day and hour
  • Workstations and meeting space benchmarked separately
See the live benchmark
A close-up of a general arrangement drawing: walls, doors, furniture and services, drawn to a consistent standard

CAD services

A plan two moves out of date is worse than no plan, because somebody will trust it. We keep the record of your estate accurate.

  • General arrangement, block and density, way-finding, services
  • Polylined and coded for CAFM, to your standards or ours
  • Measured surveys where no reliable drawing exists
  • On demand or on contract, one floor or a whole estate
What we draw
A measured floor plan with every area coloured by its space category: lettable space, core, circulation and services

Space measurement

Every area measured off the drawings and sorted into core, useable and plannable, so you can see what you pay for and who uses it.

  • Measured to IPMS standards
  • Lease and rentable compared against what is actually there
  • Space chargeback by department, and the whole lot exports to Excel
  • Restacks modelled before anybody moves
Space analysis
A floor plan with a graded circle on every room: furniture, floor, walls and lighting each marked A to D

Other services

The work that follows a decision: moves, audits, labelling, and extra hands for an in-house CAD or planning team when the work spikes.

  • Move management, furniture, filing and artwork audits
  • Condition reports on the building and its contents
  • LiDAR scanning, turned into plans you can use
  • Desk, storage and locker labelling
The rest of it

Every office feels full.

Measured, the average is 37.5% used.

That gap between what a building feels like and what it is doing is the whole job. We measure it, draw it, and help you act on it.