AECOM and Accenture Spain have been working together since 2008, but it wasn’t until 2014 that the company looked to evolve its work environments to include more innovative spaces.
This led AECOM to deliver eight projects, each challenged to go beyond the previous, in accordance with Accenture’s culture of constant evolution in business.
The two most notable projects were the transformation of the Corporate Offices in Madrid and the DIGITAL HUB, a space for collaboration, co-creation and customization for each client’s experience, which was designed and executed in only six months.
The Digital Hub was created to represent and support Accenture’s leadership in the digital transformation market and digital solutions strategies. The space supports areas for collaboration and co-creation to be used with clients and other partners, like young start-ups with great ideas and unique knowledge.
The entire space can be reconfigured. Forty percent of the space is dedicated to client experiences and 60% is collaborative workspace. This flexible, high-energy showcase space has been a magnet for clients, partners, employees and new recruits alike.
Adolfo Suarez Madrid-Barajas airport is well aware of its responsibility for the harmful effect on the environment and undertakes to utilize innovative environmental technologies in its operations and to conduct its activities in accordance with, but without limitation to, the relevant environmental legal acts.
Aligned with Aena’s environmental quality policy, the airport has implemented an Environmental Management System (EMS) aimed to ensure that airport activity meets the requirements of the regulations for the environmental protection. The EMS is certified under the international ISO 14001 standard.
Appointed by Aena in 2014, AECOM Spain is providing fully-integrated environmental services to the airport´s Environment Department under the EMS compliance framework.
Our environmental specialists undertake a day-to-day steady work and they are actively engaged to help the airport in achieving its environmental goals through a consistent environmental control of its operations.
Main activities are the following: supervision and maintenance of the EMS according to the ISO 14001 certification, expert support to comply with the ACA certification (Level 2 Reduction), environmental monitoring inside the precinct and areas of interest, Service for the Environmental Monitoring of Companies (SERCOM), and full environmental documentary control
Sony Music appointed AECOM to fit out its new Madrid HQ. Our design approach won out for two clear reasons: the methodology proposed in the initial stages of the project to understand the firm’s real needs and how to use the new space to suit those needs, along with our previous experience in creating innovative spaces that raise productivity and foster collaboration.
Sony Music’s previous Madrid head office was located in a 1980s building in a residential neighbourhood on the outskirts of the city. No longer in keeping with Sony Music’s brand identity, the age of the site and its outdated interiors were creating operational problems. Space was being wasted, there was limited flexibility to accommodate future changes and there were too many enclosed spaces but not enough meeting rooms, preventing open communication and ideas sharing.
The new HQ is centrally located on the Paseo de la Castellana, the buzzing avenue in Madrid that connects business and commercial parts of the city. The team’s concept was to shift the internal culture away from one of isolated working to a highly collaborative work environment, with music at its heart. In this new atmosphere, employees can take ownership of the brand and live it.
This approach led not only be the design of the work spaces, but also a client area that includes an auditorium for events and concerts to be used by artists, the press, client and employees
AECOM’s Strategy Plus team has helped Sony Music create a vibrant, contemporary work space that reflects its brand values and the digital age of music, providing an integrated, flexible space for staff to enjoy, bringing artists and their record label support teams closer together.
Group M is WPP’s consolidated media investment management operation and serves as the parent company to agencies including Maxus, MEC, Media Com, Mindshare, Catalyst and Xaxis. Group M is the global number one media investment management group (RECMA 2010).
Strategy Plus won a competition in 2011 to design a small meeting space in the current Group M building. After carrying out this project, Group M engaged Strategy Plus to design and improve other areas within their office building.
The aims for the new space were to:
- Increase staff motivation.
- Increase staff identification with company values and image.
- Increase and improve informal and collaboration areas to foster connections.
- Increase the variety of spaces available for different types of meetings and work.
- Convey a culture appropriate to a young and innovative company.
All this had to be done within tight budget constraints, therefore decisions were needed early on in the project, on where to allocate the available fee and time. With this in mind we focused on upgrading the support spaces in the centre of the floor, introducing a lot more colour and a greater diversity of work and meeting areas. These vibrant and colorful spaces along the center of the office floor stand out, leaving the old office floor in the background.
The result, on conclusion of this project, is that Strategy Plus have met the expectations of the client, and we are now working closely with Group M to improve more spaces.