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Upcoming Events
(see more details of each event below)
Thursday 26th March 2026
One Southwark Bridge, London
Real Estate Customer Experience Study Tour: One SouthWark Bridge. Led by BDG Architecture and Design
Tuesday, 19th May 2026
PrintWorks, Leeds
UKREiiF Breakfast
Customer Experience as a Real Estate Value Driver
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Real Estate Customer Experience Study Tour: One SouthWark Bridge
Led by BDG Architecture and Design
Thursday, 26th March 2026
Set on the South Bank of the Thames, One Southwark Bridge is a benchmark example of how legacy office buildings can be reimagined for modern experience-led work.
Formerly the headquarters of the Financial Times, the building has undergone a deep retrofit to become a high-performance, future-facing workplace—one that prioritises people, wellbeing, sustainability, and public realm alongside commercial function. Rather than starting from scratch, the transformation retained and upgraded the existing structure, delivering significant embodied carbon savings and achieving BREEAM Outstanding.
Inside, the building is designed around how people actually work and experience space today: flexible environments, inclusive amenities, sensory and wellness spaces, and strong connections between teams. At ground level, it opens itself back to the city, improving permeability and contributing to the wider South Bank experience.
For Experience Makers, One Southwark Bridge offers a real-world case study in:
Experience-led workplace design
Retrofit as a sustainability strategy
Balancing corporate scale with human-centred environments
Designing offices that engage both occupants and the city around them
This visit is an opportunity to look beyond aesthetics and examine how space, strategy, and experience come together in a complex, live workplace.
Read more about the building here
To RSVP, email info@experiencemakers.com
Experience Makers at UKREiiF
Customer Experience as a Real Estate Value Driver
How customer insight, data and technology are reshaping investment decisions and asset performance
Tuesday 19th May 2026
The commercial real estate sector is undergoing a fundamental shift. For decades, buildings competed primarily on location, specification and price. Today, that is no longer enough.
Across offices, retail, industrial & logistics, mixed-use destinations and living assets, real estate customers are increasingly evaluating places through a broader lens: the quality of the experience they offer. How easy is it to use the space? How well are services delivered? Does the environment encourage people to spend time there and come back?
This shift is reshaping leasing decisions, customer retention and asset differentiation across the market. Customer experience is no longer a “soft” concept. For investors, developers and asset managers, it is becoming a core driver of value creation, and even being considered at the point of investment - both at the individual asset level and across portfolios in M&A activity.
The ability to design, measure and deliver exceptional experiences is emerging as a defining capability for successful real estate organisations. Better data, richer insights and technology are transforming how experience can be measured and delivered, by providing a deeper understanding of how people interact with buildings and places, and by enabling owners and operators to deliver better environments.
Drawing on real-world examples from across the built environment, this session will explore how engagement and satisfaction data can act as early indicators of income stability, operational risk and long-term value - and how technology can help capture and apply these insights more effectively.
To RSVP, email info@experiencemakers.com