c2 Practice Profile_MAY 2016

c2:concepts Practice Profile

Who we are

•  Leading interior design and architecture practice providing creative solutions for your office space.

•  We can help you fully design your workplace interior, space-plan the building for you and create an inspiring and effective environment.

•  Established in 2003 by Mark Alcorn who has over 20 years’ experience in the design of corporate office and contact centre interiors.

•  We have a team of highly talented architectural and interior designers at studios in Glasgow and London.

•  We work across the UK as well as internationally.

•  We pride ourselves on our enthusiastic, collaborative and friendly approach – we’re always happy to have a chat and find out how we can help.

What we do

•  We specialise in creating new working environments for commercial clients looking to rejuvenate their workplaces.

•  Projects can be large or small – ranging in size typically from around 5,000sqft to 150,000sqft.

•  Our work ranges from common part area refurbishments, to new flexible working environments and from corporate expansion plans to complete relocations and property strategy projects.

•  We deal direct with clients, landlords, professional teams and contractors.

•  We understand the market - our knowledge, coupled with our creativity, ensures that we will work with you to carefully interpret your requirements, to design and deliver an interior solution that not only looks great but provides an inspiring and effective flexible workplace for your people and your business.

Who we work with

We enjoy long-term relationships and repeat project work with virtually all of our clients and we are appointed on a number of framework agreements.

How have we helped clients? Case Studies

c2:concepts Considered, creative.

www.c2concepts.co.uk Barclays Bank Manchester Regional Office

In an asset management review Barclays decided to consolidate it's Manchester retail and business banking division from two sites in the city into one at 4 Piccadilly Place. Further to c2's prototype "Hearts & Minds" contact centre for Barclays being introduced at Sunderland and Liverpool, c2 were commissioned to design the new Manchester office combining a new approach to Barclays office design with the Hearts & Minds approach. Accommodating 1000 staff, 4 Piccadilly Place provides a modern contact centre with additional office space for full support services.

Location: 4 Piccadilly Place, Manchester Project Size: 82,000 sq ft Procurement: D&B Status: Built (completed 2014) Team members: PM: EC Harris, QS: Turner & Townsend, M&E: Cundalls, Contractor: Overbury


www.c2concepts.co.uk Barclays Wavertree Contact Centre

Following introduction of the new c2 designed "Hearts & Minds" contact centre concept for Barclays retail and business banking division, c2 were appointed to implement the concept at the bank's Wavertree site. The refurbished contact centre accommodates 1300 staff and provides improved team communication and management flexibility. c2 have also worked with Barclays retail bank team to include the new virtual branch concept within the building's reception area. To assist Barclays in the provision of a leading edge contact centre environment, c2 took an alternative approach to the lighting design at the Wavertree site. By maximising the ceiling heights within the existing frame, the design provides integrated low glare ambient lighting, which is also low energy and therefore a more efficient solution for a contact centre of this size.

Location: Wavertree, Liverpool Project Size: 108,000 sq ft Procurement: Traditional Status: Built (Completed 2015) Team members: PM: Mace, QS: EC Harris, M&E: Cundalls, Contractor: Morris & Spottiswood


www.c2concepts.co.uk

In advance of the London 2012 Olympics, Heineken decided to bring together all of its sales & marketing teams from separate southern offices into one central London site. c2’s brief was to provide a flexible working facility with state of the art presentation and meeting rooms. The headquarters occupy two floors within an existing building located near to Oxford Street in the heart of London’s west end. Our design included a new internal feature stair case to connect the main reception and bar space with the upper workspace. Working with Heineken’s staff, we developed the design brief to include reclaimed materials used in the brewing process, such as polished copper and aged oak, and heavy emphasis was placed on the use of Heineken brands within the design through the use of wall graphics, glass and lighting.

Location: Great Titchfield Street, London Project Size: 14,500 sq. ft. Procurement: Traditional Status: Built (Completed 2011) Team members: PM: Faithful + Gould, QS: Faithful + Gould, M&E: SGP Property & Facilities Management, Contractor: Skansen

Heineken Heineken Sales & Marketing HQ



c2 designed Britvic Group GB's new southern hub to provide a commercial centre where their sales, marketing and senior management teams could work together with greater flexibility and increase collaboration between the Britvic International divisions and the GB business. Our design incorporated the various Britvic product brands and campaigns through the use of meeting room graphics to provide a commercial brand focused environment. The use of flexible work spaces and provision of a welcoming, inspiring environment has created a centralised and accessible hub for field based staff. In addition to the workspace created, c2 designed a conference, events and brand launch space which has enabled the teams to host events on site, providing a budget saving of over £300k on external venue costs. Britvic at Breakspear Park won the BIFM Awards 2013 for Impact of Organisation and Workplace.

Location: Breakspear Park, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire Project Size: 36,500 sq. ft. Procurement: Traditional Status: Built (Completed 2012) Team members: PM/ QS: RLF, M&E: WPPM Ltd

Britvic PLC Britvic Southern Hub HQ



c2concepts were appointed by Sysmex, a Japanese based global bio-tech company, to completely redesign the interior shell and external entrance of their UK HQ building in Milton Keynes. The project scope consisted of complete Cat-A and Cat-B refurbishment, with full M&E upgrade, including a new entrance and reception space, staff break-out area, client lounge, new client training and product demonstration rooms (divided by feature sliding screens), a presentation auditorium, staff gymnasium, service workshop-lab, all opening onto a central feature showroom zone. The entrance was redesigned and extended, to provide a new architectural feature to the building. The first floor was designated as future-focussed flexible staff office space and support areas with glazed exec offices, meeting and boardroom. New collaboration areas were provided, and a central ‘village green’ zone for relaxed ad-hoc team meetings and one-to-ones. The project was the first to fully utilise electronically height adjustable sit-stand desks for all staff.

Location: Sysmex House, Garamond Drive Wymbush, Milton Keynes MK8 8DF Project Size: 23,600 sq ft Procurement: Traditional contract Status: Built (Completed 2015) Team members: PM: Northwood Project Management, QS: Robinson Low Francis; M&E consultants: MBA, Contractor: Life Build Solutions

Sysmex Milton Keynes



C2 were appointed by Cushman Wakefield to work with the American company Mathworks to design their new Glasgow offices. We worked closely with Mathworks to provide a design that incorporated their corporate branding.

Mathworks Office Fit-out

Location: Glasgow Project Size: 7988sq ft/ 743sq m Procurement: Traditional Status: Built (Completed 2105) Team members: PM & QS: Cushman & Wakefield, M&E: KJ Tait Contractor: Clark Contracts


www.c2concepts.co.uk Aviva (was Norwich Union) Call Centres

Building on a historic relationship with Norwich Union having designed call centre facilities in Belfast, Norwich, Glasgow city centre and Sheffield, c2 were engaged to provide architectural and interior design services to allow Norwich Union (now AVIVA) to consolidate their operations into one major site. Accommodating 1150 call centre operators, the new facility was designed to invoke desired behaviours and provides training & meeting room space alongside leisure and breakout space at the heart of the building. The building was orientated to maximise use of natural daylight and countryside views. The call centre floor plate was designed to provide extra ceiling height and incorporates a team-orientated layout.

Location: Bishopbriggs and West Regent Street, Glasgow, Sheffield, Belfast and Norwich Project Size: 24,000 - 120,000 sq. ft. Procurement: Traditional Status: Built (completed 2006) Team members: PM: Allen & Hanel, QS: RLF, M&E: WSP, Architect partner: AEDAS, Contractor: Bowmer & Kirkland



c2 were invited to pitch competitively for the design of insurance provider Homeserve's new headquarters call centre in a former industrial unit in Walsall. The creation of a space utilisation study and 3D visuals, coupled with client involvement lead to our successful appointment and the new 620 seater call centre was designed using the firms corporate brand in a subtle yet inspiring way. c2's design doubled the capacity at the site by maximising use of the existing floor plate and incorporating a new upper floor. Our success on this initial project lead to a number of additional works for this client across their sites ranging from space planning and team configuration through to office design and management. Our relationship is on-going and reactive to the client's ever changing needs, across the main campus buildings in Walsall.

Location: Walsall, Norwich, Preston and Banbury Project Size: 15,000 – 100,000 sq. ft. Procurement: Traditional Status: Built (2005) - Ongoing) Team members: PM & QS: RLF

Homeserve Membership Ltd Homeserve Insurance Headquarters



c2 were appointed to design a cost effective solution to refurbish common areas at this Glasgow office building. Following its construction in 2008, the building provides Grade A office space across 10 floors. The building is partially let and to attract further tenants the new Landlord wished to repair and upgrade some of the aesthetics within the building's main reception area and circulation spaces including floor and wall decorations, lift car improvements and provision of a new reception area. c2's designs provided efficient but visually effective use of the budget.

Location: 133 Finnieston Street, Glasgow Project Size: Common Part Areas Procurement: Traditional Status: Built (2014) Team members: Asset Manager: Coldspring, QS: Thomas & Adamson, Agents: Ryden, Cushman & Wakefield, Contractor: Worksmart Interiors

133 Finnieston Street



c2 were commissioned to design a refurbishment of the common areas of Queens House, a grade A listed building with dual access in Glasgow city centre. Providing office suites ranging from 600sqft up to 2,500sq ft over 8 floors, Queens House was being upgraded by the landlord to attract new tenants to vacant accommodation. c2 advised on efficient use of budget to provide maximum impact with the design. The refurbishment included welcome and reception areas, stairwells and lifts and access corridors. Design features were included within the reception areas to create a sense of place and help identify the building, with features reflected through both sides of the building to develop continuity.

Location: St Vincent Place, Glasgow Project Size: Common Part Areas Procurement: Traditional Status: Built (2014) Team members: PM: Trident Building Consultancy, QS: Trident Building Consultancy, Agents: Ryden, Jones Lang LaSalle, Contractor: Insite Contracts Ltd

Picton Queens House


www.c2concepts.co.uk SWIP 145 St Vincent Street

Location: 145 St Vincent Street, Glasgow Project Size: Common Part Areas Procurement: Traditional Status: Completed 2015 Team members: PM/QS: Whitecross Building Consultants, Agent: Ryden, FM: Jones Lang LaSalle

Working on behalf of the Landlord through a Project Manager, c2 were appointed to redesign the common parts of this Glasgow city centre office. The new designs provide improved building signage, upgraded lift areas and modernised main reception space through the use of decoration and light enhancements.


www.c2concepts.co.uk Atrium Court 50 Waterloo Street

Atrium Court is one of Glasgow's best known landmark buildings and provides high quality office accommodation over six levels, all within large imposing floor plates formed round an impressive central atrium core. c2 were commissioned by the landlord’s agents to provide a design concept which refreshed the main entrance and reception areas within the ground floor of the atrium area. The designs provide new branding to the building and functional informal meeting or collaboration space.

Location: 50 Waterloo Street Project Size: Common Part Areas Procurement: Traditional Status: Built (completed 2015) Team members: Agent: GVA/Workman/Clark Contracts

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Following BT's decision to relocate some staff from a purpose built single tenancy building, c2 were commissioned by BT's facilities management division to design an upgrade to the common areas within and around this riverfront building in Glasgow's International Financial Services District. The brief was to provide space that would allow BT to lease individual floors. Our designs included refurbishment of the main atrium space to provide meeting and interaction areas and a new reception area and consideration was also given to external areas including an elevated garden and application of the building's brand to all elevations. We redesigned the internal atrium to enclose each floor plate with full height glazing, providing private and separate floor areas for individual tenants.

Location: 15 York Street, Glasgow Project Size: Common Part Areas and 30,000sq ft. floor plate Procurement: Traditional Status: Designed and Partially Built (Completed 2012 and 2014) Team members: PM: BT Facilities Services Ltd, Agents: Ryden, GVA James Barr, QS: Currie & Brown, M&E: Hill Lawrence, Contractor: ISG Plc

BT Facilities Services Ltd Alexander Bain House



Following discussions with the landlord's agent, c2 carried out a study of the atrium area of this large office building to the north of the city centre. c2 produced 3D visuals of the design which made better use of the functionality of the common areas and provided a greater sense of integration within the vast space.

Location: 1 Tanfield, Edinburgh Project Size: Common Part Areas Procurement: N/A Status: Designed Only (2014) Team members: Agents: Ryden, CBRE

The Carlyle Group Tanfield



c2 provided concept designs for Countrywide who were moving into a refurbished warehouse development at 180 Oxford Street, London. The spaces had exposed painted black concrete ceiling and exposed services which was an exciting challenge design wise.

Countrywide Concept Design

Location: London Project Size: 13,000sq ft/ 1,208sq m Procurement: Concept Design Status: On site Team members:



To enable the agent to market an 18,000sq ft. vacant floor at this Glasgow city centre office building, c2 were commissioned to provide concept space plans. We provided layouts suitable for a range of business types.

Location: 57 Queen Street, Glasgow Project Size: 18,000 sq. ft. Procurement: N/A Status: Designed (Completed 2013) Team members: Agent: Ryden

Redevco UK Ltd. The Guildhall

Contact us

c2concepts.co.uk Glasgow: Atlantic Chambers, 45 Hope Street, Glasgow. G2 6AE 0141 221 9229 London: 33 Cavendish Square, London. W1G 0PW 0203 011 1984

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