The 2025 BCO conference in Milan: Key takeaways from this year’s event

By Daniel Gayne2025-06-02T09:33:00

Returning to mainland Europe for the first time in six years, developers, contractors and occupiers gathered to discuss the future of the office. Daniel Gayne runs through some of the main discussion points from the three-day conference

It has been a while since the British Council for Offices’ (BCO) annual conference made its way across the channel for three days in continental Europe. If you said the word “coronavirus” to one of the delegates to Copenhagen in 2019, they might have pulled a funny face. In 2025, and only just starting to get used to the changes brought to their sector by the pandemic, more than 600 BCO members descended on Milan to discuss what comes next for offices

Here are Building’s key takeaways from the three-day conference:

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