Shepherd & Wedderburn Offices, Edinburgh

Shepherd & Wedderburn occupy over two floors of Edinburgh's Saltire Court and had reached capacity within the space available – at least within their current space planning strategy. To move is a radical solution, to expand out of the building is always unsatisfactory with its split in operations, increase in overheads and loss of flexibility. haa design ' s exercise showed how the adoption of a ‘ inside-out ' space planning strategy and the adoption of some of the principles of flexible working could increase occupancy by over 10% and improve the quality of the working environment in what is a fairly extreme building. While adoption of comprehensive change is still on hold haa design have been busy with less controversial exercises like the improvement of front reception and the increased provision of meeting rooms.