David Leon and Associates David Leon and Associates
Location
PO Box 60158, London SW19 5XJ

Contact Details
Contact: David Leon
Tel: 020 7223 0308
Email: david@davidleon.eu
Website: www.davidleon.eu

Not simply modernised but re-engineered to add value. This redundant production centre transformed into a high tech Research Centre in Yorkshire, UK

Why should we expect today's innovative businesses adapt the way they need to work to an environment twenty years old?

David Leon and Associates help science parks re-engineer their increasingly outdated and obsolescent buildings into modern, effective, energy efficient and good looking buildings and workplaces – places which are way ahead of the competition and meet the needs of today's demanding tenants.

David Leon and Associates' aim is not simply to modernise outdated buildings but to add value through change.

The surge in the construction of science parks and buildings ten or twenty years ago has meant that we now have many out of date buildings and workplaces by today's standards. They suffer from high energy and maintenance costs, an outdated image and have workplaces which fail to meet today's business and research needs.

In the meantime, demand for efficient, modern workspace has never been greater.

Doing nothing to these places is not an option. But replacing old buildings with new ones is expensive and at the moment not easy to fund. Replacement in any case is disruptive. It means a loss of rental income during construction. It has a major environmental impact and is subject to increasingly stringent regulation.

But there is another way: Re-engineering the buildings and workplaces you already have.
  • Costs are less than for new buildings – between a third and two thirds
  • Buildings can remain occupied or semi-occupied during the project, holding on to valuable tenants and income streams
  • Re-engineering is the sustainable option in the UK where we already have a lot of buildings
  • The environmental impact is less than new build
  • It is a more flexible option in terms of cost – from minor interior refurbishment to major re modelling
  • Re-engineering can deliver not only an end product as good as a new one but often more exciting and imaginative.
David Leon and Associates succeed because their primary focus is on the design of workplaces – particularly research workplaces – for the people who occupy the space which science parks have to offer. They have over twenty five years experience of designing work space and buildings which enable people and their organisations to work at their best – space which allows today's tenants to be on top of their game.

David Leon and Associates offer science park owners, management and tenants a high value professional service in the following fields. These services are underscored by a track record of designing workplaces and buildings which are catalysts for successful innovation:
  • Workplace Design
  • Laboratory Design
  • Architecture
  • Landscape Design
  • Site Master Planning.
Through specialist associates David Leon and Associates can also offer science park owners and management environmental and building services design, structural engineering, acoustics design, cost consultancy, project management and change management as an integral part of their work.

David Leon and Associates are the authors of 'Changing Places' – the UKSPA Good Practice Guide on Renewing Workplaces and Buildings.





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Kestrel House wins Award for Best Corporate Workplace

HR Wallingford's new headquarters, Kestrel House at Howbery Park, Wallingford – for which David Leon and Associates were the Workplace and Interior Designers – has been voted the best Corporate Workplace in its region by the British Council for Offices.

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