Raymond James
Optimizes
Buildings
Across Portfolio

Solutions

Portfolio Evaluation: Data showed the actual space needs of each business unit or space group under desk- hoteling and non-desk hoteling scenarios. They added another floor to accommodate teams and combat space shortages.

Neighborhood Planning: To gain deeper insights, Bell and his team installed VergeSense occupancy sensors throughout the office, including meeting rooms, workstations, cafes, offices, and trading desks. They leveraged usage maps to understand how neighborhoods and shared spaces were being used over time. The team benchmarked conference room usage data and identified that employee complaints typically arose when usage reached the 70% threshold.

Intelligent Space Design: During a renovation project in St. Petersburg, Florida, Bell’s team sought to understand space usage on busy and quieter days to inform future design strategies. They installed sensors in all individual and shared spaces on the renovated floors to capture both passive and active occupancy data. This data informed their understanding of how employees were utilizing various areas.

Furthermore, after converting 30% of their conference rooms into Zoom rooms, the team monitored the active usage of both Zoom and regular meeting rooms in one of eight buildings for 90 days, employing VergeSense sensors to gather data on room utilization.