Veolia

Veolia commissioned ASSMANN specialist retail partner Christiane Abenhausen with the design of the furnishing concept. In close cooperation with the company, the expert developed a functional furnishing concept that perfectly fitted into the available space. “The container passage is very narrow and we had to find solutions for the smaller offices that were easy to assemble and fit, even in extremely confined spaces,” Abenhausen recalls. She therefore selected the Canvaro Compact product line. The desk systems for group working spaces can be extended to up to twelve individual units. They are equipped with integrated screens for privacy, which also provide soundproofing, and power and data cables are organised with the aid of cable trunking. They are also very easy to assemble and fit®– which was important, as the systems are to be dismantled again in 2020, when they will be moved into the new building. “The ASSMANN fitters do not connect the centre supports of the Canvaro Compact to the other elements until they are on site. This makes the individual parts easy to transport and the actual assembly only takes a few hours,” says Abenhausen.

For Veolia, it was the sit-stand mechanism of the desk system that was decisive: each individual workstation can be adjusted to a suitable height at the push of a button. This will allow some of the staff to work standing up whilst their colleagues are sitting down to work. Roman Reichert, data scientist with Veolia, loves this: “Thanks to the new sit-stand desks, I now work almost exclusively standing up. On a normal working day, I sit down for a maximum of twenty per cent of my working hours. This really relieves my back.” To ensure that concentrated working is possible both standing and seated, all of the tables are also equipped with additional Viteco partition elements. Fitted directly above the cable trunking, they not only hide the power and data cables but also ensure that the visual heights remain unchanged throughout the space, even if the desks are all set at different heights. “Although this feature is initially not that important in the temporary containers, we wanted to try out all of the solutions we intend to install in the new building,” explains Abenhausen. And the trial was a success: some offices in the existing main building have already been furnished with additional ASSMANN solutions – and following their successful trial in the container, the decision to use Canvaro Compact, Viteco and co. in the new head office has already been made.