Workspace Transformation
Cooper Parry
Workspace Transformation
Cooper Parry are an accountancy firm with a difference. They look to ‘Disrupt, Lead and Make Life Count’. They have been hailed as the ‘rebels of accountancy’ and tend to fly in the face of convention.
This is certainly true of their new workplace in Derby designed by Office Principles with the key aim of revolutionise the way they work for their multi-generational workplace.
proAV have worked with Cooper Parry for a number of years at a variety of their sites but with the Derby location, Sky View, they wanted to remove the more traditional meeting areas and replace them with a free-flowing co-working environment encouraging interdepartmental working while creating the opportunity for clients and visitors to work from the same space.
The brief was to create a home from home workplace environment, flexible enough for people to work alone or together in a way that is best for the individual with the technology fitting into the space and enabling flexible working practices. The space also needed to be ‘lifted and shifted’ with the day to day co-working zones turning into various event spaces as needed for talks, seminars, conferences and networking evenings.
"I have worked with numerous proAV onsite engineers and they have always been professional, courtesy and knowledgeable. They have had to work around a functioning office at times, facing restrictions to their workflow, but have worked with us to ensure delivery is convenient and on time. After service is also key to why we continue to work with proAV, they are always on hand to provide support and guidance where needed, in a timely and efficient manner."
Joanna Giles
Head of Facilities, Cooper Parry
"I have worked with proAV on a few Cooper Parry projects, in particular directly with Ian Wallington. We tend to be quite sketchy with our requirements from the outset at times, but Ian provides us with numerous options that could work with our brief and walks us through cost and functionality. We have been provided with demo kit, as a try before we buy, which has been really helpful."
Joanna Giles
Head of Facilities, Cooper Parry
"We’ve worked really hard not only on how we’ve designed the space but also to make sure we’re thinking about how we want to use the technology to work with each other in a better way, and that might be things like video calling each other across different offices, using Microsoft Teams to encourage us to collaborate with each other and to share information. We have fantastic audio visual equipment now in all of our meeting rooms, we have private spaces for video calling and we’ve really simplified it to make it easy to use all the technology that’s embedded in the way we work."
Abi Brown
Chief Digital officer, Cooper Parry
Our solution
At Sky View proAV enabled an AV system which included an open plan space with ‘speakers’ corner’, coffee bar with room booking solution, summit and meeting rooms, library, lounge, tree house, tablet wall and mood wall.
proAV utilised a range of key products that would work together effectively for a simple, flexible approach to Cooper Parry’s working environment needs. Where required in meeting rooms and the Co Lab spaces AMX video conferencing cameras were mounted to displays to allow users to host VC calls and also present wirelessly from their device to a Barco WePresent presentation system. The Tree House room has the addition of a Biamp Devio conferencing hub with two beamforming ceiling microphones and a Huddly Go camera for exceptional web-based conference experiences across a variety of platforms.
A ‘Tablet Wall’ in the entrance provides an opportunity for digital...
Key contact
Ian Wallington
Regional Director
Birmingham
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