Our work with Building Design Partnership (BDP) began in 2021, when they were in the midst of formalising their hybrid working policies and processes.
BDP is a global multidisciplinary design practice and the UK’s largest architecture firm, working with a network of architects, engineers and specialists to deliver projects in healthcare, education and urban regeneration. They operate around a central purpose — to design a world that’s built for good — placing an emphasis on sustainability and social value.
The challenge
BDP has a large workforce spread across multiple UK studios. Bringing the organisation into the hybrid world presented logistical challenges: they needed a system to manage office attendance and desk capacity, provide teams with visibility of colleagues’ whereabouts, and remove the need for manual scheduling.
The solution
We worked with BDP to centralise their hybrid working processes around three pillars — visualisation, integration and insight:
- Interactive floor plans and wayfinding — detailed, interactive maps of BDP studios complete with wayfinding markers. With a visual-first approach, large offices can be navigated easily and desks identified so colleagues can sit near each other.
- Deep Microsoft integration with Teams and Outlook enabled a seamless transition.
- An advanced management reporting suite providing detailed operational intelligence — real-time insights into office usage and patterns, allowing workplace optimisation and identification of high-demand zones.
The outcome
Our solution gave BDP a central, streamlined approach to hybrid working management, with rapid adoption and without the need for training thanks to our integration with Microsoft 365.