This consumer product company retained UGL Equis’ Workplace Integration and Transaction Advisory teams to examine how its headquarters facility could better respond to the organization and its evolving space needs.

Challenged by growth cycles and product changes the client had come to occupy four separate buildings to support Executive and administration, research, development and production functions. The client’s occupancy of several different building had, overtime created an inefficient and unproductive environment that was derailing their success and culture.

Utilizing our proven process, UGL Equis worked with the client’s Facility and Executive staff to delve into the actual business and work processes and define the company’s core needs.

Through our documentation of the primary organizational and process relationships our team outlined of how research, development and specific business operations intertwined and could most effectively support the client’s future goals. UGL Equis’ workplace group created the foundation to aggressively pursue real estate options that ultimately focused on a new custom, built to suit facility.

By creating consensus and showing proof that the current situation was actually restricting the company’s progress, both staff and investors were aligned that the future need of the workplace.

Throughout the process UGL Equis provided the information and documentation for a new facility that would increase efficiency, better align organizational requirements and manage or reduce costs.

Specifics include:

• Reduced space requirements by 4,500 SF or almost 10%.
• Provided the specification and facility requirements for a complex and highly specialized research facility, ultimately delivered by the landlord.
• Established a new, integrated organizational structure designed to maximize the productivity and culture of the company’s operations.