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Accelerating Growth With New Co-working Tech Campus
Challenge
Transform an existing building into a high-tech campus, offering flexible workspaces and cutting-edge AV for startups.
Solution
Kinly delivered a fully integrated AV solution across 30 meeting rooms, event spaces and building-wide digital signage, ensuring flexibility and ease of use.
Result
The London campus became the most advanced in RocketSpace's global estate, attracting over 120 tech startups and boosting membership with a standout event space.
The challenge
RocketSpace is a tech campus and community that connects tech entrepreneurs, startups and corporate innovation professionals to bring new innovations to market – with speed and direction.
Founded in San Francisco in 2011, where it was home to early Uber and Spotify, RocketSpace provides services and amenities that accommodate the needs of fast-growing tech startup teams, including office-as-a-service, a multi-gigabit internet connection, cafe, collaborative workspaces, and event spaces. Members also have access to hands-on workshops, peer group roundtables, trend talks and networking events.
In 2015, RocketSpace identified Regents House in London as its first international location. Previously home to RBS' cash holding centre, bank vault and offices, this 1980's building provided over 9,000 sqm of flexible working spaces but first needed to be completely stripped back to its shell to make room for this new state-of-the-art tech campus.
As part of this extensive refurbishment project, Kinly was appointed to design and deliver a fully integrated audio visual solution, covering thirty meetings rooms, an event space and building-wide digital signage, to help fast-growing British tech firms become the technology giants of tomorrow.

“As London’s tech community continues to rapidly expand and drive innovation, so too will RocketSpace be able to cater to those growing needs with its highly flexible technology choices and connected workspaces.”
Senior Director
Campus Development
RocketSpace
The solution
Kinly worked closely with the client and various project stakeholders including the building owner (RBS), network providers (BT), office refitters (Overbury), workspace designers (LOM architects) and event space consultants (Carcoal Blue).
As part of the design steering committee, Kinly's role was to design and deliver a flexible, high-performing, yet affordable solution. With over 120 start-ups using the facilities and each having their own technology platforms and requirements, it was important that the AV design supported the widest possible range of technologies.
To ensure the technology would still be current and relevant after the two-year refurbishment process, we took the client to visit a number reference sites and industry tradeshows to gather forecasts on future product releases. In fact, by procurement stage, much of the technology that was originally scoped had to be changed, so there was a continuous process of design revision to include the latest versions of technologies employed.
Another challenge was the physical build environment. Over 1,200 tonnes of materials had to be removed from the basement to make room for the event space, revealing the structural core of blast-proof reinforced concrete and creating a raw and exposed look. Our solutions had to fit seamlessly into these surroundings to compliment the stripped back utilitarian workplace design.
We delivered over thirty meeting rooms across three floors, offering a range of functionality. Simplicity and ease of use were key drivers for the selection of technology to encourage self-service.
The meeting rooms allow for both wireless and cable connectivity. Barco Clickshare is used for presentation connectivity, offering full support for Windows and MAC laptops, plus a large number of mobile devices. IT support is therefore minimal.
All meeting rooms feature soft conferencing facilities allowing members to connect via popular applications such as Skype, Zoom and Google Hangouts. Users can also have access and can easily connect to the cameras and microphones via USB to engage in video calls. The meeting rooms are therefore platform agnostic and extremely versatile.