Working
50 Major working projects, A capital value of over £1billion, 15 Breeam accredited schemes, 1 hundred thousand Staff in built workplaces
Our interests are not limited to the office and production environments that might traditionally be associated with workplaces. Increasingly the boundaries between living, work, education and leisure are beginning to blur and blend.
The document which currently summarises best practice in the UK is the British Council for Offices 2009 Guide to Specification, to which Keppie was a key contributor particularly on Sustainability and Architecture. Keppie designed the first Public Private Partnership project in the world that achieved an Excellent BREEAM environmental rating. Great Glen House, the headquarters for Scottish Natural Heritage, obtained the highest ever BREEAM rating and was voted the UK Workplace of the Year.
These projects predominantly rely on passive measures rather than expensive energy generation methods, as they have to respond to normal commercial cost restrictions. Businesses today have a better understanding of the benefits of staff retention and greater productivity and new benchmarks have been set in terms of design quality and specification. This has resulted in more innovative workplaces making a positive contribution to the built environment. Design is about the spaces in between buildings as well as the buildings themselves.
Case Studies
The projects within this section are intended to provide a flavour of the part Keppie has played in the evolution of flexible working environments, a philosophy that is continuing to be developed on the UK and international stages.