proAV certainly made its presence felt at this week’s Public Property Summit following a deluge of enquiries by both public and private sector property owners.

Held at London’s Business Design Centre, the Public Property Summit 2010 was the first conference and exhibition of its kind in the UK and was held in response to the government's call for more efficient management of the £370 billion of public owned property. It brought together the professionals involved with the public property market, the public bodies that are now under enormous pressure to make savings in their property use and the organisations, both public and private and including proAV, who have the solutions they seek.

proAV’s Government and Public Sector team bought a technological edge to the Public Property Summit, demonstrating the benefits of unified communications, particularly the savings in time and cost achieved by video conferencing and managed video communications services. 

Government departments are being forced to reduce the cost of public sector accommodation and plans to relocate civil servants outside the capital are already underway. But, proAV’s professional audio visual technologies are ensuring these moves will not just save on cost; they’re designed to increase productivity and streamline the management of public owned property portfolios.

“The AV technologies our private sector clients have adopted are now becoming the preferred alternative for government departments which simply have to invest in more revolutionary working processes.”

'The business case for accessible meeting environments is so strong'

‘The public sector now has no choice but to take a closer look at the economic science behind unified communications’, confirms Ian Wallington, proAV’s Director, Government and Public Sector Division. ‘The private sector has long-embraced technologies such as video communications because the business case for cutting the cost of long-distance travel in favour of more accessible, inexpensive meeting environments is so strong.

‘Property professionals from both sides have come to the Summit and listened to the reasons why unsustainable property market practices simply have to end. Delegates have listened to HM Treasury’s Economic Secretary, the Shareholder Executive and a number of experts from the public sector, including Capita Symonds, GPU and others who have reiterated the need to make the government estate a more rationalised, flexible and high performing operation.

‘This week, we’ve had a phenomenal response from public sector institutions who know they need to radically re-group, post-Chancellor’s Spending Review and are looking for solutions that will help them do so in the most effective and productive way possible. We’re fortunate that the AV technologies our private sector clients have adopted are now becoming the preferred alternative for government departments which simply have to invest in more revolutionary working processes.’

Efficient building management systems that cut costs

But the savings that AV technologies deliver go further than the means by which property market players communicate and trade; they start with the buildings themselves. The buildings owned, operated and managed by and for the public sector can benefit from more efficient management systems that bring down the cost of ownership and occupation dramatically.

proAV’s intelligent building management systems ensure work and living spaces remain comfortable and controlled with running costs kept to a minimum and the charges associated with mechanical and electrical maintenance cut and aligned with budgetary constraints.

If you’d like to find out more about how audio visual technologies can have a positive impact on your property and building management profitability, contact proAV’s Government and Public Sector team and start building a more sustainable, efficient future.

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