Government workers to receive sustainability guidelines

Office design news from Morgan Lovell

Published on 08-09-2008

Government office workers are to receive new guidelines outlining "new ways of thinking" to improve sustainability in the workplace in an effort to modernise the civil service, it has been revealed.

The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) has published the new report entitled Working beyond Walls in a bid to help employees adapt to sustainable working practices in the modern age, according to the London property agents Devono.

"It paints a picture of the civil service in 2020 where homeworking and mobile working is commonplace and government office workspaces are used more efficiently and operations are more sustainable," the OGC commented in a released statement.

Co-author of the guidelines Alison White, director of DEGW, noted that the report is aimed at showing artchitects, developers, designers and all those within the workplace what it is that modern employees want from their office environment.

The news follows the recent announcement that a number of government office interiors have been found to be highly energy inefficient and would receive some of the lowest ratings if subjected to its own tests.