Significantly, the development team led by Matthew Punshon, former project manager of the groundbreaking DSS Prime property outsourcing project, will see input from the hotel sector through the appointment of former Forte regional manager, Paul Schnapper.
Everything from the provision of homeworking facilities to office networks shared between two or three corporates will be considered by the group, while its new property models will be targeted at businesses currently occupying three to four large buildings.
Although R&D work is at an embryonic stage, it is already informing service provision on a live project, the 420,000 sq ft Empress State ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ in Earl's Court.
The site, at which Land Securities has just received planning permission, will include what Punshon calls 'touch down sleep space' — basic hotel accommodation for office staff at the building working late into the night — as well as restaurant, health, leisure, and possibly medical centre facilities.
'Our team is about generating a different way of delivering property, reflecting the approach innovative corporates are taking, which allows people to work anywhere, anytime,' said Punshon.
Tackling the new 'workscape' could mean anything from staff working at home, 'where you could be sitting at a desk supplied by Land Securities Trillium,' which would also carry out the necessary health and safety checks, to the creation of new forms of core accommodation including shared corporate space.
Behind the move is a desire to make the company's property offerings attractive to occupiers other than the largest corporates.
Referring to major property partnering deals won by the company, such as the BBC project due to go live this month, Land Securities Trillium chief executive, Manish Chande said: 'Major corporate deals are there for the taking but you can't sustain a business model on that...we have to sustain a model based on deal flow.'
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