Case study – Christie goes digital mapping with Ordnance Survey
22 February 2012
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The new £42m Southampton head office of Great Britain’s national mapping agency Ordnance Survey boasts a state-of-the-art audiovisual installation courtesy of Racetech and Christie.
When Ordnance Survey, Great Britain’s national mapping agency, purchased the 16 acres of land at Adanac Park for its new state-of-the-art Southampton head office, the organisation was determined that the £42m project would be environmentally sympathetic.
The three-storey building, known as Explorer House, benefits from a number of natural resources and renewable energy sources at the heart of a sustainable development. This provides a modern and efficient workspace suited to an information business for a workforce of 1100 staff, including surveyors and cartographers. The audio visual infrastructure needed to emulate that concept.
The giant atrium at the centre of the building forms the social hub of the head office, employing both customer and staff-facing technologies, and linking the offices with the business centre.
Today’s Ordnance Survey is a far cry from the origins of the 220-year old business, originally set up to map the south coast of England for fear of invasion by Napoleon. Today it is a £130 million-a-year public sector organisation collecting, maintaining and distributing geographic data that helps underpin everything from rubbish collection to planning flood defences.
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