How street furniture can improve office developments

Businesses now consider enhancing their interior and exterior spaces as more sound investments than ever before.

Fresh, ergonomically focused workplace surroundings positively impact productivity, collaboration, and mental health. As well as internal office fits and refurbishments, businesses are now considering their outside spaces to be as important.

Quality street furniture pieces – including seating, plants, and cycle parking, give a fantastic first impression to potential clients. And incorporating such furniture can really enhance an office development.

Businesses can add value to their office development by integrating a range of street furniture into their outside spaces. Essentially, they are expanding their office buildings by providing staff with extra amenities such as an outdoor space to socialise or providing cycle parking so staff can cycle to work.

By providing outside seating to an office development, businesses are offering their staff a place to socialise, rest, and help to create a stronger sense of community within teams. These factors all help businesses to increase productivity and help worker wellbeing, which in turn has a positive effect on the business’s bottom line.

Outside seating also carries more obvious benefits, including creating a more aesthetically pleasing and stimulating surrounding area to an office building. Popular options among sub-contractors who work on commercial developments include the Garner Timber and Steel bench and the Calero Recycled Plastic bench – both supplied by Street Furniture Direct.

Both of the benches above provide striking, contemporary styling with clean lines and angular designs. And not only that they are highly functional and durable, and made of timber and recycled plastic respectively, which are sustainable materials – great for businesses who are environmentally conscious.

They are firm favourites with sub-contractors as they are:

• Available in a number of options and colours
• Aesthetically pleasing for many modern office developments
•  Highly durable and functional and will stand the test of time
•  Delivered straight to site

Planters are also another street furniture option that is popular among office developments. These bring much-needed greenery as well as numerous environmental and social benefits to urban environments.

The Fern GRP Planter is a popular option for office roof terraces as it is constructed of lightweight GRP (Glass Reinforced Plastic) that makes for easy manoeuvring. They can be supplied in an array of powder-coated RAL colours, ensuring they can be customised to suit any surroundings. This planter features integrated seating to maximise the available space whilst bringing the benefits of a planter.

Cycle parking options are the final piece of street furniture that can significantly improve office developments. Similar to seating and benches above, cycle parking offers clear benefits for businesses as well as less tangible advantages.

Secure and accessible cycle parking on office developments provides a safe place for workers to store their cycles. Generally located to the front of an office development, bike parking is usually very accessible which may encourage staff to cycle to work. This in turn promotes better health and well-being among a workforce, resulting in happier teams who take fewer sick days.

Businesses will benefit from the above factors with being more profitable. If a workforce is happier, more productive, and taking less time off sick, there is a good chance this increased momentum will impact profitability.

Popular cycle storage options for office developments include the Sheffield Cycle Stand which is available in a surface-mounted and root-fixed options. Sub-contractors favour the Sheffield Cycle stand as they are:

• Cost-effective
• Come in a range of options (powder coated, RAL colour painted) to suit your project requirements
• Easy to fit, both the surface mounted and root fixed options
• Available with short lead times

If you are a sub-contractor or contractor working on an office development and you are interested to see how street furniture can benefit your outside space, contact our team here at Street Furniture Direct on 01625 879 442
or email enquiries@streetfurnituredirect.co.uk