Multi-Site
Confidential FTSE 100 Media & Publishing Group | Newcastle, Plymouth, Bristol, Cardiff
Newcastle, Plymouth, Bristol, Cardiff | UK | Multi-Site | Workplace Technology, Workplace Automation, Connectivity & Cyber
CHALLENGE
The operating problem
A FTSE 100 media and publishing group ran four regional offices: Newcastle, Plymouth, Bristol and Cardiff. Each had been fitted out at a different time, to a different specification.
The result was four different workplaces. Meeting rooms behaved differently in every city, legacy systems varied, and there was no shared standard for AV, signage or connectivity.
That carries a real operating cost. Staff moving between sites had to relearn the room. Support teams had to hold four sets of knowledge. Every new requirement turned into a bespoke project.
- Different building layouts and structural constraints at each site
- Inconsistent legacy systems inherited from separate fit-outs
- No standardisation across meeting rooms or collaboration space
- No unified approach to AV, signage and connectivity
- A need to deploy quickly, with minimal disruption to working teams
The brief was to design once, deploy at scale and operate consistently, without dropping quality at any single site.
APPROACH
How Altus delivered
We built one workplace specification and deployed it four times. Each building was surveyed and the fit adapted to it, but the model itself did not change from city to city.
- Smart meeting rooms with one-touch join, wireless presentation and hybrid capability, set up identically in every location
- Digital signage under centralised content control, carrying internal communications, live data and brand
- Structured cabling and a network backbone sized for AV over IP, cleanly installed and labelled for long-term scalability
- Collaboration and breakout zones, including booths and pods for focused work
- Media-ready environments at selected sites, with video walls and presentation and broadcast capability
- Reception and front of house signage, giving a consistent arrival experience across the estate
Every site received the same technology stack, the same user journey, the same visual standard and the same performance expectations.
OUTCOME
What changed
Four regional offices now operate as one workplace.
- An aligned experience across all four cities, with no learning curve for staff moving between them
- Faster meeting starts and less time lost to setup
- Higher utilisation of meeting and collaboration space
- Simpler support and maintenance, because there is one specification to hold rather than four
- A platform that extends to further sites without redesign
The value here was in the method as much as the hardware. Standardising the model before deploying it is what made four separate rollouts behave like a single programme.
TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS
Infrastructure stack
Crestron, Logitech, Samsung, Cisco
THE NEXT STEP
Book a Critical Systems Review of your business.
We will look at where your infrastructure stack stands today, identify the gaps, and tell you straight what needs to change.