Case Study
The Heart of Storage
The Heart of Storage As the leading charity in its field in the UK, the British Heart Foundation is always looking to maximise efficiency and floor space and the recent move from rather restricted, listed buildings with cellular offices in Central London to recently refurbished location within the famous art deco Greater London House presented the ideal opportunity to assess the filing and storage situation. Amongst many new initiatives there were two that would impact on their new working environment. A staff survey especially revealed that people wanted a light and airy interior – and assessing the existing “ tired and messy” grey tambour cabinets revealed that they contained no less than 1.5 linear kilometres of contents . . which stimulated a departmental “ binit to winit” competition