Workplace strategy, design and fit-out
Offices worth coming in for.
Hybrid working changed where people work. AI is changing the work itself. So a good office brief starts with what your people need to do, not with a desk for every employee. We help you decide how much space you need, what makes coming together worthwhile, and how the office can adapt as your needs change.
30+
Years of workplace projects, from space planning and furniture to full design and fit-out.
100+
Organisations we have worked with, from Barclays and BAE Systems to the British Red Cross and Devon Wildlife Trust.
40%
More efficient space for the British Red Cross in London, found through space planning rather than a move.
Exeter to EC3
Projects from Devon and Cornwall to Bristol, Oxford, the Midlands and the City of London.
Selected work
Workplaces designed for the people in them
How we work
Get the brief right and everything else gets easier.
Most office projects that go wrong do so before anyone picks up a drill: the wrong amount of space, a budget set without a plan, a design that answers last year’s questions. So we spend time on the early decisions: what people do, how often they come together, and what the space has to make easier.
01
Understand
What your people actually do and where they do it best: attendance across the week, how teams meet, what needs quiet, where the friction is. A short utilisation study replaces assumptions with evidence.
02
Plan
Space plans, test fits and realistic budgets before you commit to a lease, a landlord’s offer or a contractor. This is where the right amount of space is decided, and where most of the money is won or lost.
03
Design
Interiors that support focused and collaborative work, carry your brand and can be reconfigured as teams and tools change, without starting again.
04
Deliver
Design and build, a phased refurbishment or a relocation, organised so the business keeps working while the work happens.
The workplace now
The office has a different job now.
How much space?
Most offices were planned for every desk to be used every day. Now attendance peaks mid-week and the rest of the week is quieter. Plan for your real peak, from your own data. Space you no longer need is cost and carbon saved, or room for settings people will actually use.
Why come in?
People come in for what they cannot do as well at home: working through problems together, learning from colleagues, meeting clients, and for some, a quiet place to concentrate. Design for those, with daylight, fresh air and good acoustics, and the office earns the journey.
Room to change
The work itself is changing as teams adopt AI, and the new patterns are still settling. That is a reason to build in flexibility rather than guess: settings that can change use, furniture that moves, and a lease that leaves room to grow or shrink.
Technology in the room
Meetings now include people who are not in the room. Cameras, audio, room booking and occupancy data need planning alongside the furniture and power, not adding at the end.
Great workplace design transforms working life, and helps organisations achieve what they set out to do.
The belief behind every Business Interiors project
Clients include
Law firms, insurers, universities, charities, engineers and public bodies.
- Allen & Overy
- AstraZeneca
- Atkins
- BAE Systems
- Balfour Beatty Workplace
- Barclays
- Brewin Dolphin
- British Red Cross
- Brittany Ferries
- Cornwall Council
- Devon & Cornwall Police
- Devon Wildlife Trust
- EDF
- English Heritage
- Experian
- Foot Anstey
- General Electric
- Hargreaves Lansdown
- Jacobs
- Knight Frank
- Land Registry
- Michelmores
- Ministry of Defence
- Network Rail
- NHS
- QinetiQ
- Riverford
- UK Hydrographic Office
- University of Bristol
- University of Oxford
- Urban Splash
- Wrigley
Insights
Practical thinking on offices.
Practical guides on space, hybrid working, fit-out and sustainability, written for the people who make the decisions.
Start a conversation
Planning a move, a refurbishment or a rethink?
Tell us about the space, the people who use it and the date you are working to. You will get a straight answer about what it needs, what it is likely to cost and what to do first.