The British Council for Offices (BCO) has named Stockport Council’s Stopford House building the region’s Best Corporate Workplace at its annual Northern Awards.
The awards ceremony took place on Thursday 27th April at Manchester’s Kimpton Clocktower, and recognised projects that demonstrate best practice in office design, fit-out, operation and sustainability, setting the standard for excellence across the sector.
For Stockport Council’s Stopford House the judges awarded the Best Corporate Workplace award saying the space is inspiring, supportive of both work and wellbeing in a flexible, logical and well-designed scheme.
Taking a strong sustainable stance, the Council decided to repurpose Stopford House rather than building new. The design team delivered a full workplace strategy enabling the Council to adopt hybrid working and vacate other premises for alternative services. The building’s key architectural features were revealed and improvements made to make it more sustainable. The project has revolutionized the way in which Stockport Council works.
Alongside the other Northern region winners, Stopford House will now compete for the BCO National Awards in October 2023.
The lead sponsor for this year’s BCO Awards is ISG. Category and Gold sponsors are AECOM, Glamox Luxonic, SAS International and Troup Bywaters + Anders. The BCO awards are in association with EG.
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