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Overbury completes fit out for UK retail bank

National fit out and refurbishment specialist, Overbury, has delivered the new office of an award-winning UK retail bank.

Overbury has transformed the 8,000 sq ft office of Secure Trust Bank in Shirley, Solihull into a flexible and collaborative workspace for some of its head office support teams.

The first floor of the two-storey Yorke House has undergone a comprehensive refurbishment to create an activity-based environment, designed to promote agile working and employee wellbeing.

Secure Trust Bank acquired Yorke House in March 2019. The building, which is situated adjacent to the UK bank’s headquarters, has been designed specifically to support expansion plans and allows the bank to consolidate from other local rented accommodation.

Michele Clifton, account manager for office design at Overbury’s Birmingham-based team, said: “We are hugely excited to have delivered such an important project on behalf of an employer that is clearly committed to providing its people with a great place to work. Agile working is becoming more popular and is an increasingly attractive model for employees. This fit out represents a considerable investment by Secure Trust Bank in creating a series of impressive spaces that have employee wellbeing at their core and will allow people to choose the way they work. The design balances aesthetics and functionality with a seamless combination of focused and collaborative working areas that will ultimately lead to better productivity and support the bank in its continued success for years to come.”

Roy Aston, chief technology officer at Secure Trust Bank, said: “Overbury developed a good understanding of our culture and the approach we wanted to take in changing the way we work. The team was able to advise us on the best way of achieving our goals and the result is a spacious, open plan environment with a combination of fixed workstations, a choice of agile workstations, collaborative space and small rooms for private meetings. When we set out our requirements we realised that this was quite a break in tradition and that we needed to challenge ourselves as an organisation and as individuals with set ways of working. Overbury’s experience helped us in this regard and whilst it’s still early days, we are already benefiting from the approach.”

Overbury is delivering a series of fit out projects for clients across the Midlands, including a £5 million office refurbishment at the former Leamington Spa headquarters of Wolseley and a £9.5 million state-of-the-art music institute in Brierley Hill on behalf of Resonance.

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