Workplaces & campuses
Headquarters, ports and corporate campuses: navigable, consistent with your identity, and built to last.
In short
Corporate wayfinding is the system that gets staff and visitors from the front gate to the right meeting room: arrival, lift lobbies, floors and neighbourhoods, room naming, statutory signage and brand environments, planned as one. We design it to your architecture and identity, install it with our own teams, and sign off the compliance certificates.
We design and deliver complete wayfinding systems for complex corporate environments.
One supplier from concept to certified install.
01The challenge
With hybrid working, people come in two or three days a week and sit somewhere different each time. A headquarters now has to give its own staff visitor-grade wayfinding, permanently, and most of the decision about which way to walk is made in the few seconds the lift doors are open.
A fit-out often buys signage in pieces: an agency for the reception wall, a sign shop for the doors, the fit-out contractor for the statutory signs. Nobody owns the whole, and the floor ends up speaking in several typefaces at once.
Meeting-room names get argued about more than anything else in a fit-out and written down less. When the name on the door, in the booking system and in the calendar invite differ by a single character, visitors get lost.
Brand guidelines are written for screens and print. On a wall, a pale brand colour can fail the contrast that Part M asks for, and safety signs have shapes and colours fixed by regulation that no brand book can override.
Departments rename, tenants move and companies rebrand. A system built as one-off fabrications has to be remade each time, where a modular one can be re-panelled.
02What we deliver
Design, project management and installation by our own teams, with one accountable supplier from first drawings to the signed certificate.
Entrance identity, campus totems, vehicle and pedestrian directionals and car parks, built for weather and traffic and sized for a reader who is moving. At Dublin Port that meant monoliths combining wayfinding and interpretive content for a working port.
Floor directories facing the lift doors that say what is on this floor and the floors around it, and zone names people actually use, held identically on the directory, the desk-booking app and the fire drawing.
A naming convention agreed before the door schedule hardens, with the room number kept on every sign. Door signage carries it consistently, with changeable inserts where rooms are rebooked or renamed.
Values walls, timelines, supergraphics and glass manifestation, designed by graphic designers who write brand guidelines as well as follow them. Specified so a panel can come off and a new one go on without redecorating the wall.
Fire, safety and accessibility signage to Part M, BS 8300 and ISO 7010 by default, tactile lettering and braille on the doors that matter, and glass manifestation at the heights TGD M sets. Certificates signed off by us.
Sign families built to be re-panelled rather than remade, and a sign-by-sign record of design, approval and installation, so a re-let floor or a damaged sign in year four is specified from the schedule.
03How we work
Approvals cut from months to days. The same five stages on every project, so nothing falls between packages.
A wayfinding system and sign family designed to work with your architecture and identity.
Numbering, floor IDs, lift lobbies, car parks and egress, built for how people navigate.
Designed to the strictest accessibility and legislative criteria. Certified on completion.
Stove-enamelled aluminium and other long-life materials, made to spec or above it.
Our own fitting teams, working to complex construction schedules.
04Standards
The standards and regulations this work is designed to. Compliance is the baseline, not an upsell.
05Proof
Brochure · 8 pages
Wayfinding for headquarters, corporate campuses and ports in Ireland: designed to your brand, certified, made and installed by one specialist.
Everything a person reads between the front gate and the meeting room: external identity and directionals, lift-lobby directories, floor and neighbourhood names, room and door signage, statutory fire, safety and accessibility signs, and brand environments. We plan them as one system so the building reads in one voice.
Yes. We start from your brand guidelines and your architecture, and where there are no wayfinding guidelines yet, we write them. Where a brand colour can't meet the contrast Part M asks for, we adapt it for the wall and agree the change with your brand team before anything is made.
Pick one family of names and map it onto the plan in an order a stranger can follow, keep the room number on every sign, and make the wording on the door, in the booking system and in the calendar invite identical. We write that convention down before the door schedule is fixed.
With a modular system, the panels change and the signs stay. When RTÉ rebranded, signs we had installed a decade earlier were re-panelled with nothing more than a screwdriver and no bespoke fabrication.
In days rather than months. Your workplace team, the architect and our designers review the same live sign schedule and approve sign by sign, and our packages average 1.8 design rounds to approval.
Either. We work for main and fit-out contractors as well as directly for clients, with the client's workplace and brand teams approving the design whoever holds the contract. One supplier from design to installation typically saves up to 20% against buying the package in pieces.
Usually three parties: the landlord owns the base build and shared lobbies, the tenant owns its demise, and statutory signage follows the fire certificate whoever paid for it. Settle those boundaries before the fit-out programme starts, because the signage package is the one that slips when they are left open.
Yes. We sign off the compliance certificates at handover, hand over the as-built schedule, and back what we supply and install with a 10-year warranty.
07Insights
Hybrid working changed what a headquarters has to explain about itself, and office signage is where the explaining happens: neighbourhoods, room names, and the brand on the wall.
Every brand manual meets its hardest test on a wall. Where identity should carry a signage scheme, and where the legibility standards have to win.
A brand book is a policy; Part M and the safety-sign regulations are law. What to do when the approved palette cannot legally carry the sign it has been given.
One room, three names, and a building nobody can follow. What a good room naming convention decides, who should own it, and why it comes before the signs.
A directory is a list with a screen attached. Whether it stays right depends on who owns the list, not on what you paid for the display.
Signage rarely breaks. It fades, dulls, goes out of date and stops being believed. Lifespans, cleaning regimes, warranties and spares: the long view.
Workplaces & campuses
Approvals cut from months to days, typically around 20% off the wayfinding package, and one supplier from design to installation.
