HOK Advance Strategies Announces New Onsite Workplace Services
A new model and a landmark in corporate real estate.
HOUSTON, TX, December 6, 2005. HOK Advance Strategies has announced new onsite workplace services intended to support national or global companies with large real estate portfolios and employee populations of 1,000 or more. In delivering the new real estate services, HOK staff would be collocated at a client's location to provide the following ongoing services:
Space Planning and Management
CAD/CAFM Portfolio Management
Furniture, Fixture & Equipment (FF&E) Management
Churn Management and Implementation
By coordinating space planning, real estate information and metrics, furniture management, and project management, onsite workplace services teams are able to deliver consistent project results anywhere in the world. A worldwide, web-based CAFM system to track real estate utilization and planning projects greatly enhances the value to clients. HOK is able to plan and implement each facility project globally to support both the local needs of the business unit and the global mandate for real estate.
"HOK can now help clients leverage their tactical teams to make them highly strategic in their day-to-day operations, supporting the overall strategic goals of the organization," said Peter Winters, Senior Vice President of HOK Advance Strategies.
The benefits of the new onsite services include reduced costs from smaller, higher skilled teams, streamlined processes, reduced turn-around time for planning and implementation, and real-time information to support decision-making and facilitate predictable and reliable budgets.
According to Paul McKenzie, Vice President and Operations Manager for HOK's Onsite Services business unit, "Our onsite tactical teams are very efficient. Standard processes and tools enable them to do more, allowing them to move into the realm of strategic implementation. At this level of execution, we're definitely providing clients more bang for the real estate buck."
In North America, onsite workplace services employees are located in Alpharetta, Atlanta, Brampton, Belleville, Harlow, Houston, New York, Ottawa, Raleigh, Richardson, San Francisco, Santa Clara, St. Louis, Sunrise, and Washington, DC. In Europe, employees are located in Galway, Harlow, London, Maidenhead, and Paris. And in the Asia Pacific region, employees are located in Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Sydney.
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