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Whether you're a corporate looking to expand, an investor seeking sustainably to optimise your portfolio or a family trying to find a new home, we bring a truly personal approach to every project, delivering best-in-class insights and advice to help you make better property decisions.
For over 160 years, we’ve been helping people thrive through places and spaces.
With more than 40,000 professionals dedicated to commercial and prime residential real estate across 70 countries, no matter where you are, we have the expertise to bring your vision to life. Making a positive impact is at the heart of our partnerships. From the way we advise you to the work we do directly, we’re committed to adding value while always honouring our responsibility to protect the environment, support local communities and foster an inclusive culture.
Our purpose
Places and spaces are more than land or bricks and mortar. They’re where people create new ideas, build memories and plan futures. It could be a sustainable office that sparks creativity, or a home that gives a family room to grow. A development focused on the needs of the local community, or a rural estate consciously managed for biodiversity. Whether you are a global corporate, developer, investor or family, our goal is simple:
to help people thrive through place and spaces.
Savills expertise in the following areas:
Asset Management Capital Markets Construction Management Cross Border Tenant Advisory Facilities Management Flexible Workspace Hotels Industrial International Residential Property
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Our people, your vision
Savills is an organisation of extraordinary individuals, working tirelessly together to deliver you the best results. When you work with us, you’ll discover our people have an energy about them. A natural warmth that creates lasting, trusted relationships. We gather experts from around the world to ensure there’s always someone with the right experience to help you realise your ambitions. That means welcoming and empowering people from all backgrounds and experiences – because it’s the combination of our diverse perspectives and expertise that creates incredible results.
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We know Asia Pacific
In 1997 Savills began its expansion into Asia Pacific and is now active in 14 key markets. With 74 offices and over 28,000+ professionals, agents, valuers, advisors and researchers in Australia & New Zealand, China, Hong Kong & Macau, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam, we have an expert near you. Savills is able to leverage its global network to complement deep local knowledge in order to provide clients with unparalleled property services based on knowledge and experience Check out our most recent case studies.
Our values
The culture ingrained in our business is what sets us apart, guiding the way our people behave to bring you the best possible service. Here are the four key values we’ll live by whenever we work together.
We Listen
If it matters to you, it matters to us. We put you at the heart of everything we do. We listen to your unique needs and take the time to understand your aspirations, responding with bespoke solutions to help you achieve your goals.
You make the best decisions when you have the right experience and advice at your fingertips. Our experts pioneer new approaches, bringing fresh ideas and informed insights to the table.
We Empower
Trust that you have the right people in the room – not just for the pitch but at every point in your project. We unite diverse perspectives and expertise across our global and local networks, collaborating with your team to build personal, lasting relationships.
We Collaborate
Progress comes when we question the status quo. We’re always open and honest with our views, constructively challenging you, and each other, in the pursuit of the best outcome. Your success is our priority.
We Challenge
Climate
We work to minimise our impact on the environment and are committed to reducing our carbon output to net zero by 2040. From reintroducing biodiversity to green retrofits of existing buildings, we strive to create a sustainable future for ourselves and our clients.
Culture
A company is nothing without a strong culture. We actively foster an inclusive workplace – aiming to attract diverse talent, develop and support our people, and always lead by example.
Community
People are at the heart of our business. We aim to create a lasting positive social impact on local communities through the way we engage with them, the work we do and the charitable initiatives we run to support them.
Whether it’s the way we advise you or the work we do directly, we always seek to add value while being a force for good – pioneering initiatives that help both people and the planet to thrive.
Making a positive impact
Global presence, local expertise
Wherever you are in the world, we put unrivalled expertise on your doorstep. Tell us your needs and aspirations and we’ll unite diverse perspectives from around the world to create the right team, tailored to your project, to deliver the best results.
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North America
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Continental Europe & Middle East
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£659m
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UK, Ireland & Channel Islands
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9,454
Employees Across Continental Europe & Middle East, Asia Pacific and The Americas
42,000+
Offices and Associates in 70 Countries Creating a Strong Global Reach and Network
700+
of Global Trade has put Savills into the Top 5 Global Real Estate Advisors
£2.2bn
Countries Global Presence
across 70
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Offices in Asia Pacific
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Savills Design provides an all-encompassing methodology and approach that includes workplace strategy, change management and design, with an independent and honest approach to helping you assess your key business needs and ensuring alignment of these with your workplace.
Space Optimisation
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Strategic Advisory
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Workplace Consulting
002
FF&E Consultancy
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Change Management
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Energy Management
006
ESG/Sustainability Ratings Management
009
Design Services
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Design Translation
007
Savills Projects
Project Management Office (PMO)
Technical Due Diligence (TDD)
Procurement Advisory
Scheduling/ programming
Feasibility Studies
Move Management
Cost Management
Day-2/After Service Care
Select Package Procurement
Turn-Key
Cost-Plus/Open Book
Design & Build
Savills Build
Asia Pacific Workplace Consultancy
Savills Design works with multi-national clients and corporate occupiers, helping to understand their future workplace needs, covering all industries and sectors.
The most successful outcomes, are driven by change programs that provide your colleagues with adaptive, educational, flexible and inclusive engagements.
Discover Phase
With advancements in technology, an ever more competitive business landscape and multigenerational workforces, workplaces across industries are undergoing evolutionary change at a rate never seen before. We are in the midst of a revolution in how we work, where we work and how we attract and retain talent. Our workplaces will play an important part in how these challenges are met. Throughout our discovery phase, we look to learn and analyse your cultural DNA, business processes, talent experience and performance. We aim to align critical success factors with your key business goals and create a workplace strategy that supports your future vision of an effective, efficient and productive work environment.
Our discovery activities include: Business Context, Project Objectives and Supporting
Discover
Define
Deliver
Define Phase
Deliver Phase
Our design thinking approach underpins our research activities. As we capture quantitative and qualitative data, this provides us with a comprehensive set of deep insights that supports successful and complete strategy development. This customisable approach and engagement allow us to respond to your critical success factors. No two projects are identical. We define and categorise your colleagues by their personas in a people-centric approach for strategy development. We analyse parameters such as schedule, budget, and the desired level of engagement to craft a bespoke response and target your specific business needs.
Our define activities include: Space, Technology, People and Culture, and Supporting Information.
We prototype and test strategies and concepts against your business objectives. We assess and score the performance objectives across your headcount, space efficiency, budget, and work with you to eliminate identified risks through our change management approach.
Our define activities include: Space, People and Culture, Technology and Supporting Information.
Personas
Change Phase
We identify your colleague's persona's to help drive the overall workplace strategy.
Throughout our Change Management engagement, we deploy tools and resources to ensure your business and colleagues thrive in their new environment. We promote new work practices through staff engagement and pilot projects in both the digital and physical worlds. Successful outcomes occur through change programs that include adaptive, educational, flexible and inclusive approaches. Our team works hard to create a safe, fun and engaging environment, through which the positive effect on the working lives of your colleagues will be appreciated and understood. Our approach leads your business through change, with minimal disruption in the process. We fully engage your identified internal change champions to achieve the best outcomes for all colleagues.
Our delivery program comprises three key areas: colleague awareness, colleague communications, and colleague involvement. These activities can run sequentially, or concurrently with performance and effectiveness assessed on an ongoing basis to ensure messaging is effective, impactful, and supports the change management program's objectives.
Anchor Teamer Seeker Independent Butterfly Traveler
Design thinking & ideation process
The evolution of the workplace stratgey and design translation, was to continue to support our clients will a full workplace design service, that leads to delivery.
EMPATHISE
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define
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IDEATE
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PROTOTYPE
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TEST
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Savills Workplace provides a full suite of Design Thinking, Ideation and Co-creation services, as well as the traditional Workplace Design services. As the natural next step from the Workplace Strategy and Design Translation - where we show the completed workplace strategy as an actionable next step, through pictures not just words. Our design translation shows the workplace strategy in the form of a test-fit layout in both the existing and or new location (if identified), showing the new ways of working, spatial programme and the associated kit-of-parts working in harmony for the business leaders to see in practice how this will work for them and how the future workplace will look in practice, and not just as a written theory.
Taking the actionable insights and data analysis and translating into an intelligent and well thought through workplace design and planning exercise, to demonstrate to the less experience professionals the future workplace solution.
Next, Savills Workplace can offer several routes through the Workplace Design journey, these being:
30% Concept Design
Where Savills Workplace will work with you to create a 30% Concept Design package, with finalised and client agreed test-fit layout plans, concept deign look and feel, materials and finishes, and general performance specifications – covering all the key aspects for a modern workplace around acoustics, lighting, and the FF&E. This will allow your Project Managers to then run a Managed Tender for a Design & Build approach, where the awarded D&B Firm will take the 30% Concept Design forward to completion, saving time as the business leaders have already signed-off on the layouts and key elements up front. We can then also offer a Design Management role, to oversee the awarded D&B firm.
100% Design Consultancy
This is where the Savills Workplace team will complete the entire design package to 100% like any other Interior Design practice would do, for a Traditional Full Tender process, typical for larger projects of 60,000 SQFT or above.
Chief Executive Officer, South East Asia, Central Management, Singapore
Christopher Marriott
Regional Director, Global Occupier Services, Hong Kong
Adam Evennett
Director, Head of Savills Design, APAC
Simon Raper
Creating change, together
Savills Design works with multi-national clients and corporate occupiers, helping to understand their future workplace needs, covering all industries and sectors. We also work with clients and their colleagues / users across education, life sciences and laboratory sectors.
Munich RE
Art Works Group
Suntory Beverage and Food APAC
Savills & Savills Investment Management
Confidential Marine Robotics Client
KPMG
Confidential Health Client
Client References
Garda Capital Partners
Electronic Arts (EA)
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Associate Directors
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Our regional team
Director, Head of Savills Design, APAC + Prosci® Certified Change Practitioner / Singapore, Singapore
Associate Director, Savills Design, APAC / Singapore
Qistina Salam
Associate Director, Savills Design, APAC /China
Fairy Zhao
Sharon Lumanog
GOS Regional Transaction Manager, APAC + Prosci® Certified Change Practitioner / Hong Kong, China
Rita Kash
GOS Corporate Solutions Manager, APAC + Prosci® Certified Change Practitioner / Hong Kong, China
David Leung
Associate Director, Workplace Services, Savills Design, APAC / Bangalore, India
Lavanya Kilaru
Senior Associate, Savills Projects, APAC / Tokyo
Nagisa Miura
Head of Occupier Services – Industrial and Commercial / HCMC, Vietnam
Thomas Rooney
Director, Office Services / Jakarta, Indonesia
Ricky Tarore
Senior Manager, Project Management, South Korea
Dongwan Roh
President, T1 Project Management / Manilla, Philippines
David O’Neill
Regional Director, Head of GOS, APAC / Hong Kong, China
Director - Interior Projects, Savills Projects / Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Ulrica Goh
Associate Director, Project Management, China / Shanghai, China
Yannis Lu
Director, Worldwide Occupier Services, ANZ / Perth, Australia
Mark Smith
Director, Savills Vietnam
William Gramond
Managing Director, Savills Projects APAC
William Forwood
Size
Industry
Location
17,750 SQFT / 1,650 SQM
Pharmaceutical / Bio / Medical Devices
Boston, United States / Costa Rica, Central America / Gurgaon, India / Mumbai, India /Singapore, Singapore / Tokyo, Japan / Toronto, Canada / Zug, Switzerland
Workplace Strategy, Workplace Design, FF&E Consultancy, Project Management / DeliveryProject
Our client’s future workplace, has to embody the company culture and support their employees in the post-pandemic era, supporting the hybrid working model and colleagues’ flexibility and choice.
Our client is a global health and medical technology business, with a footprint that stretches across 100 countries. At the forefront of procedural and technological development, it operates in growing markets where its innovative product solutions help medical professionals meet broad and complex clinical needs. Our client’s new Tokyo workplace is their headquarters in Japan. The multifunctional team required a new space, that would support the company’s vision for a future workplace, post-pandemic and the previous space was no longer fit-for-purpose. Drawing on its purpose-driven culture, our client asked us to create a positive new environment for their teams that encouraged productivity and stimulated team engagement - where all theirmulti-disciplined colleagues could work together. When designing the new office and customer experience / innovation spaces, we worked closely with the team who would be utilising the space most frequently to understand the importance of the work our client would be undertaking there and the direct impact it would have on improving the lives of their patients through pioneering medical products, services, and systems.
The new workplace was designed as a magnet to encourage and attract the talent back to the workplace, with more places to meet, socialise, collaborate and work together in the new hybrid working model. Where the colleague’s flexibility and choice were paramount for the future workplace to be successful and continue to help the organisation attract and retain talent as they continue to grow in this competitive market. All the meeting, conference, training, and client experience / demo rooms incorporated the latest technologies for hybrid collaborations, to be used for team brainstorming and strategy, and where regular collaborative discussions could be held both in- person and remotely. The new workplace includes a variety of flexible spaces to accommodate the future growth and, importantly, employees have given feedback that they “love the new office”, commenting that the “social and community spaces throughout the office have been a tremendous change to the old space, allowing and enabling a greater level of collaboration for the business.”
Social Pantry / Coffee Lounge
Welcome / Work Lounge
Innovation Lab / Client Experience
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130,000 SQFT / 12,077 SQM
Asia Square, Tower 2, Singapore
Workplace Strategy, Tenant Representation / Leasing, Project Management / Delivery
KPGM required a future workplace that would embody and reflect their strong company culture and support their employees in the post- pandemic era, implementing an agile and hybrid working model.
With less than 2 years left on their current lease when KPMG reached out to Savills, the Commercial Leasing team brought in the Savills Workplace team to do a quick review of the previous Worlkplace Strategy completed pre-pandemic for KPMG by Gensler. Savills found, now mid-pandemic that the KPMG Singapore office had alreday evolved and identified with the leadership that KPMG was facing some serious issues around staff attrition, lack of employee engagement and empoyees potentially losing touch with the company culture and vision if employees continue to work from home. Savills Workplace and KPMG came to the conclusion that a hybrid working model, with an agile office environment designed for a maximum occupancy of 60% of their total headcount (3,600 staff at that time) was the right appraoch, and enaged Savills Workplace to work hand-in-glove with the Savills Tenant Brokers to identify the right spatial model to accommodate this new working model.
This ensured that the right strategic brief was developed for the workplace designers - Gensler, who had been retained for that next phase of the project. Once Savills Workplace had completed the revised Workplace Stratgey compliemented with a series of concept design and planning layouts (test-fit layouts) to provide the client with a Design Translation, Proof of Concept and a robust Strategic Brief that was then passed on to Gensler to develop the associated Interior Design concept. Savills was retained, and our Project Mangement and QS teams helped to then mange and deliver the built environment that has become the new home and Future Workplace for KPMG Singapore. The final office is situated across 4 contiguous floors, from Level 13 - 16 and enjoys the first Green Lease in Singapore, that Savills helped to broker with 100% of the electric used by KPMG copming from renewable sources here in Singapore.
6,860 SQFT / SGD$ Confidential
Marine Robotics
Singapore
30% Design, Project Management, Cost Management, Move Management, Art Curation
“A special thank you to Rick Tum, Tan Yan Quan and Marta Pinheiro under the stewardship of Vincent Lau and Simon Raper. Their guidance, strategic thinking, and ability to keep the team focused on the end goal were instrumental in steering the project in the right direction. Their dedication to maintaining high standards and ensuring the team’s well‐being did not go unnoticed.” Confidential
Challenge The Client was considering moving to another location far from the CBD where they were located and wanted to provide a destination office for people to go to that embodied the branding values at the same time it created identity based on the local Singapore context. The move was also motivated by the need of the creation of a Remote Operations Centre with very specific technology and space requirements A test-fit for the space was provided by the client, from outside Singapore, that was not aligned with local norms and requirements and had space for improvement.
Result The outcome is a beautiful and functional new office, comfortable and better than home for a lot of people which helped to get people back to the office and attract and retain talent. The dedication of the client to the outcome shows their involvement and commitment to the final result and the trust relationship with the Savills team opened more opportunities to future projects. The successful delivery of this project, is testament to a local client and team that immersed themselves into the project, co-creating with the Savills team daily. From its inception to completion, this project has been a testament to the power of collaboration, innovation, and dedication.
Solution Savills proposed layout improvements to the test-fit provided by the client while creating a storyline and brand concept message that was developed into a context driven Concept Design. While efficiently producing work and achieving small milestones at the time, Savills was able to achieve within a short timeline and exceed the client’s expectations. Communication was a key strength of the team. The support was extended through the choice of Furniture, Material finishes and Artwork selection to guarantee the space would be read as a whole.
Meeting Room
Work Lounge
Pantry
Savills & SIM required a future workplace, to embody their culture and support their employees in the post-pandemic era, supporting the hybrid working model and colleagues’ flexibility and choice.
During the pandemic both Savills and Savills Investment Management (SIM) both had an aligned lease event, where the two businesses agreed to co-locate in the same floor at Level 20, Prudential Tower, Singapore where Savills had been for the past 10+ years. As a result of the pandemic, both organisations required less space, because of adopting a hybrid work model, where their staff had the flexibility and choice to choosewhen and where to work – to best support their working scheduled, activities and daily needs. The resulting spatial reduction enabled Savills to drop approx. 2,000 SQFT which was the perfect size for SIM to co-locate in the same floor, but with separate spaces, for compliance purposes. When designing the future workplace, Savills engaged the Savills Workplace team, based in Singapore they completed the Workplace Strategy, Workplace Design and Change Management services in-house. The strategic briefing uncovered that both flexibility and choice for staff, and acoustics were paramount for the future workplace to thrive and function as desired. As a result, the new office was designed with a remote first mindset for all enclosed meeting and
conference spaces, designing all these rooms with best acoustics, lighting and new video conference technology, to support the new normal of hybrid/ virtual meetings, where Savills was experiencing every meeting had a virtual attendee/audience even when there were in-person attendees in the room too. The future workplace was a complete change from the pre- pandemic workplace, with 50% less workstations, but more choice in the activity based working environment. A desk and room booking system as deployed to manage the new working environment, with consideration given for both introverts and extroverts – with spaces created for everyone’s needs. The whole workplace enjoys the latest in best practice design for our ESG Sustainability and Wellness objectives and colleagues’ benefits, achieving Greenmark Gold, LEED and Well Certifications. Going further with the Circular and Re-use agenda – Savills re-used all the existing 10+ year old desktops and built in joinery, to create the new desktops and built in joinery, with bespoke lockers that staff actually use and find useful.
Flexible Office / Meeting Room
Welcome / Community / Social Space
Creative Collaboration / Design Thinking
Phone Room / Quiet Space
13,685 SQFT / 1,271 SQM
Real Estate / Professional Services
Prudential Tower, Singapore
Workplace Strategy, Tenant Representation / Leasing, Workplace Design, FF&E Consultancy, Project Management / Delivery
30,000 SQFT / 2,787 SQM
Food and Consumables
Guoco Midtown, Singapore
Suntory required a future workplace that would embody and reflect their strong company culture and support their employees in the post- pandemic era, implementing an agile and hybrid working model.
During the pandemic Suntory Beverage and Food APAC the Reional HQ office, and their Singapore local entity both had an aligned lease event, where the two businesses agreed to co-locate in the same floor at Level 12, Guoco Midtown, Singapore a brand new grade A+ building in the heart of the vibrant Bugis district of the city. A primary driver for the future workplace was to create a space that would attract and retain staff and enable them to experience the company culture of and live the values through work and play. The future workplace also needed to convery the company promise of "Mizu To Ikiru", literally "Living with Water", is the promise we make to our customers and the voice of our philosophy. As a result of the pandemic, both organisations required less space, because of adopting a hybrid work model, where their staff had the flexibility and choice to choose when and where to work – to best support their working scheduled, activities and daily needs. The strategic briefing uncovered that both flexibility and choice for staff, and acoustics were paramount for the future workplace to thrive and function as desired.
As a result, the new office was designed with a remote first mindset for all enclosed meeting and conference spaces, designing all these rooms with best acoustics, lighting and new video conference technology, to support the new normal of hybrid/virtual meetings, where Suntory was experiencing every meeting had a virtual attendee/audience even when there were in-person attendees in the room too. The future workplace was a complete change from the pre-pandemic workplace, with 50% less workstations, but more choice in the activity based working environment. A desk and room booking system as deployed to manage the new working environment, with consideration given for both introverts and extroverts – with spaces created for everyone’s needs. The whole workplace enjoys the latest in best practice design for ESG Sustainability, Circular and Recycle and Reuse approach. Using their own recycled plastic bottles in various feature walls and art installations to showcase their commitment to the industry they lead.
Flexible Office / Touchdown
Welcome / Experience / Social Space
Creative Collaboration / Social Space / Dining
Collaboration / Co-Creation
1,100 SQFT / 102 SQM
Finance / Investments
Samsung Hub, Singapore
Art Works Group was looking to create a new future workplace, implementing new flexible working practices, also combining the future workplace with a state of the art 'gallery space' in the CBD.
Art Works Group appointed Savillls Workplace to support the Workplace Strategy and Design of their new future workplace in Singapore. Once Savills Workplace identifed the Art Works Group size and needs, the Savills Transaction Representation team did their search and selection of the shortlisted spaces for client visits and review. Savills Workplace joined the clients on these shortlisted building visits, helping to quickly identify the right office space in Samsung Hub, Level 24. Following an onsite design chartlette, sketching concepts and ideas in real-time, the creative client agreed with the Savills Designers, that they could work with this partitally fitted-out space. This would reduce costs for the office area, and allow a larger budget for the Art Gallery space, the heart of their operations. As the fast-track project progressed, the client gave the Savills teams a challenge to open the future workplace and art gallery within 4 months, so the procurement dircetion became a full turnkey solution.
Savills Workplace complete a 30% Concept Design and Planning, and Performance Specification exercise, coupled with our FF& Consultancy services we enabled the Savills Project Management team to go to the market with a fast-track managed tender process to onboard a Design and Build Contractor. This contractor then picked up the concept design, already progressing in to Schematic Design with Savills Workplace, and produce construction and shop drawings, for the Savills Designers to work hand-in-glove with the awarded contractors to deliver the project under such a tight deadline. The end result was a happy client, and a state of the art gallery space in the heart of the Singapore CBD where Art Investors can essily access the art and services of this innovative Art Investment firm. The whole Savills team, enjoyed this small but exciting and challenging project, with it's blend of Art, and the familier Workplace components.
Welcome / Experience
Experience / Gallery / Social
Insurance
18 Cross Street, Singapore
Workplace Strategy, Workplace Design, FF&E Consultancy, Project Management / Delivery
Munich RE looked to relocate, and co-locate various Singapore business entities. Aligning them with the MRE global workplace design guidelines and flexible working policies in a new future workplace.
DMunich RE appointed Savillls Workplace to support the Workplace Strategy and Design of their new future workplace in Singapore. As Munich RE planned to bring together a number of business entities into one single location, co-locating them across two contiguous floors, with a new internal feature staircase - linking the client / welcome / social spaces for all visitors and staff to enjoy alike. As Savills Workplace completed the Workplace Strategy and Spatial Modelling, we moved seemlessly in to the Concept Design and Planning, incorporating their new global workplace design guidelines and working policies and standards. Originally awarded the 100% Design Consultancy project, Munich Re looked to piviot from a Traditional to Design and Build procurement and delivery model. Working with the Savills Project Management team, the Savills Workplace made the seemless pivot to developing a 30% Concept Design and Performance Specification package for the Project Managers to go to market for a Managed Tender process, assuring Munich RE of a true 'apples-for-apples' comparison through this managed tender process.
Then upon the award of the chosen Design and Built company, Savills Workplace was retained to continue to develop the design through to completion, acting as the Lead Design Consultant and Client's Design Manager, ensuring that the original design intent was maintained throghout the projects lifecycle. As the project went through a subsequant value engineering process, Savills Workplace worked with the clients stakeholders to manage and maintain thhe client expectations, ensuring that all stakeholders where fully informed and aware of the changes in real-time change management communications. As the project was closing out, the client then enaged the Savills Wokrplace team to support their next project in Hong Kong, looking to use the same team based in Singapore for ease of local client leadership and regional steakholder communication and ease of continuity of the Workplace Stratgy and Design and Planning process.
Training / Experience / Social Space
Welcome/ Experience / Social Space
Experience / Social Space / Dining
19,000 SQFT / SGD$5.6Mil
Games & Digital Arts
Menara Exchange 106, Lingkaran TRX, Tun Razak Exchange, 55188 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Tenant Representative, Workplace Strategy, Change Management, Design, FF&E Consultancy, Project Management, Cost Management
“A huge thank you to everyone internally and externally (Savills) who has supported us here in Malaysia and made this milestone possible. Here’s to new beginnings and continued success at our new home at Exchange 106! Thank you all for your unwavering support. We look forward to growing and thriving in our new space.” Andre Stiegler Studio Manager
Challenge Electronic Arts (EA) was looking to align their business entities and lease events, following the acquisition of Codemasters. Looking to collocate all entities in one new future workplace which would help support and enable the two companies integration process and create a ‘Centre of Excellence’ for the SEA region. Taking the opportunity to push the boundaries of what was possible for the reduction of their carbon footprint and achieving their own global goals for Sustainability ESG and Energy Management and usage.
Solution Savills was awarded the relocation project for both entities and appointed for the Tenant Representative role for the Commercial Leasing. Savills was also awarded the Full Turnkey Delivery, including 100% Design, Project Management, Construction, FF&E and IT/AV and Security. Savills also helped EA to develop the EA Future Workplace Guidelines and Workplace Metrics for their in-house Workplace Experience global team, for use on all future workplace projects.
Result The project was Design and Built in-line with the EA global workplace guidelines/standards, incorporating a high level of Sustainability ESG and Circular reuse and recycle elements – achieving LEED and WELL Fit Platinum Certification. The project was delivered to a very high standard of finish and came in on-budget and on-time. The success has since led to further regional opportunities with EA in both the APAC and EMEA/UK regions.
Recreational Area
Reception Area
Desk / Work Section
Board Room
7,300 SQFT / SGD$ Confidential
Capital Investments Fund
8 Marina View, #27-04, Asia Square, Tower 1, Singapore, 018960
Workplace Strategy, Design, FF&E Consultancy, Project Management, Cost Management
“We have never had an international project run so smoothly, or designed and delivered so well, so fast. The Savills Workplace and Project Management team truly delivered on their promises.” Robert Goedken General Counsel
Challenge Garda Capital Partners was looking to create a new future workplace, implementing new global design guidelines, and working practices, including flexibility and choice for their staff through hybrid working. During the pandemic, Garda Capital Partners was continuing to expand their Singapore and wider regional business and had naturally outgrown their service office accommodation on Level 43 in Tower 1, at Asia Square.
Result The seamless transition between the client briefing, office leasing, issue of corporate guidelines, concept design, detailed design and construction was managed by the Savills Project Management team. Assuring the client of best value for money, and an on-time and on-budget project that has been one of the most truly 'fully integrated' project delivery success stories of 2023.
Solution Savills Workplace was appointed to provide the concept design and planning, localisation and implementation of these new design guidelines and workplace standards into the new space. Working with the Savills Project Management team, the Savills Workplace team provided ongoing Design Management of the awarded Design and Built company, ensuring that our original 30% Concept Design and Performance Specifications were adhered to, and the original design intent was not diluted. Savills Workplace team also provided FF&E Consultancy, as the clients opted to make the FF&E package a client direct purchase item, parking this under the Savills Project Management team on an open book, cost plus basis.
