Construction industry gossip: Comfort zone

By Hansom2019-06-28T05:00:00

While British Land’s workers get to feel fabulous on a special sofa, the poor old design team have Heathrow sandwiches inflicted on them

Sofa so good

One of my team was recently invited to have a nose around British Land’s Storey Club space at its Paddington Central scheme in London. It’s basically the developer’s workspace business and can be used by anyone working on the site, with meeting rooms to hire from £95. There’s a sofa there that Storey Club head Steve Munroe calls the Fabulous Sofa. Why, asked my curious scribe. “Because you feel fabulous on it,” Munroe replied. My hack had a go and he can couch for that…

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