Award winning sustainable AV and architecture

The challenge

As one of the largest real estate companies in Europe, Landsec’s £13.8 billion portfolio spans 24 million square feet of well-connected, experience-led retail, leisure, workspace and residential hubs, with a growing London footprint. Landsec own and manage some of the most successful and memorable real estate in the UK.

Landsec was looking to equip its head office with meeting facilities, interactive spaces and videoconferencing as well as flexible offices. The new HQ is housed over two connected buildings in Victoria, London.

The solution

The first building features a statement reception space. To support this and truly deliver the wow factor, we specified the world’s first 1.5mm Samsung LED Wall, measuring 2.8 x 1.6 metres with full HD resolution.

The office was also the first to use a staggering 23 Microsoft Surface Hubs. In its desk spaces, twelve mobile Surface Hubs are available in both 55- and 84-inch models which can be moved between the spaces and set up to plug-and-play. Each desk is equipped with a huddle space where the displays can be positioned for informal Skype for business calls. Six meeting rooms also feature 84-inch Surface Hubs for private meetings. Staff also use Surface Pros to miracast to the displays.

Four project rooms feature recessed 55-inch Surface Hubs, two mobile 84-inch Surface Hubs and a mobile 120-inch Draper projection screen with a Sony VPL-FHZ65 projector. These can be combined to create one presentation suite.

The second building features 12 meeting rooms enabled with wireless presentation facilities via Barco Clickshare and Samsung displays and one large meeting room elegantly enabled with two VIVIDtouch 84-inch touchscreens. Every room is connected to a Condeco booking system via the business’s Office 365 calendar with 10.1-inch touchscreens, with staff using their building swipe cards to access the rooms and book meetings on the system.

As a testament to the system’s high quality, the business’ main boardroom features an 84-inch Surface Hub to remotely engage board directors and external stakeholders. A six-zone communal space boasts an audio system that can be controlled by a Jukebox, fed into a Crestron audio matrix to pendant and ceiling speakers, playing audio in one or all the spaces simultaneously for an improved ambience. The building’s hospitality area’s booth seating overlook two statement 4-x55-inch Samsung videowall displays. Its digital signage system includes 20 Samsung 40-inch displays connected via a ONELAN network displaying schedulable content, with departments able to tailor this in their own areas.

The result

The building was awarded the BREEAM Refurbishment and Fit Out Award, with 80 per cent of its AV estate reaching energy star certification standards.

The entire AV system is remotely managed by Kinly’s Service Desk, who use an advanced monitoring solution to proactively monitor device status, health and performance to eliminate equipment downtime and avoid system failures.