Archive: Jul 2017

Monica Parker delivered a provocative, inspiring talk in our office today. Artificial intelligence, Universal Income and the importance of purpose, curiosity and awe: we got through a lot in an hour.

Keep an eye out for our future forums where we’ll be discussing the impact that blockchain (apologies for those expecting that today), high security, hacking, and bots/virtual agents, will have on our working lives.

BBC Security Correspondent, Journalist and Author, Frank Gardner, will be talking about How London Will be Affected by Perpetual High Security at our next seminar on October 19th.

If you are interested in attending, please drop us an email: leanne.baird@wearebw.com.

Our 6 month review covers the market indicators we track, some information on BW’s progress and details of a recent project.

Key findings include:

• Central London office take-up 2.48M sq ft in 2017 Q1
• Defect Free completions at 57%, a 94% improvement on 2016
• UK CBI business optimism fell to 1 in 2017 Q2
• 47% of BW’s current projects are below £3M

For the full analysis and insight, download the report here.

If you’d like to discuss a project or meet up with my colleagues and I, please let us know.