Anyone can run a survey today. Collecting the data on how a company works is the easy step. The part that makes the difference is reading it: turning hours of focus, meetings and presence into square metres and work settings that genuinely work. This is where the proprietary software ARCHIlabs has developed over more than twenty years comes in.
Raw data is not enough
The numbers from a survey – how many hours of focus, how much collaboration, how much presence on site – are a starting point. To translate them into space you need a method and a point of comparison. Without a benchmark, every figure remains an opinion and every sizing an estimate.
Twenty years of projects, 2.7 million square metres
Our software is built on a proprietary dataset assembled over more than twenty years of work and 2.7 million square metres designed: every measured project enriches the reference. On top of this base comes the analysis of research by Gallup and other international bodies on work and engagement. It is the comparison with this body of data that turns the numbers of a single company into well-founded choices.
From needs to square metres and work settings
The software cross-references the typical day data with the benchmark and translates it into project figures: how many workstations, which desk sharing ratio, which and how many support areas, how many square metres for each function. The BOMA standard ensures those square metres are measured objectively. The result is sizing based on real use.
Reading the data makes the difference
A survey can be replicated in an afternoon; a twenty-year dataset and the way to read it take time to build. It is the difference between collecting answers and obtaining results: the same questionnaire, in different hands, produces different offices. The value of ARCHIlabs lies in what happens after the data is collected.
The survey gathers the question. The answer lies in how the data is read, and that is where twenty years of projects make the difference.