Do you need air conditioning in your office?
Have you considered getting an old office renovated, rather than moving to a new office? Of course, you need to do quite a bit of research and planning, and one thing that can cause headaches is how to install air conditioning, which you almost certainly going to need, even in the north of England. The reason it can be a problem is that it takes up a lot of space, usually where you don’t have much in an old building. This can also make air conditioning maintenance in Leeds and similar old cities a problem, simply because of the lack of space and poor access.
Most cities have plenty of old buildings suitable for renovation, particularly in the industrial north of England, and it is fairly easy to get a firm in to renovate the rooms, or divide them up as necessary for offices. But there can still be a problem with how to install air conditioning, unless you opt for individual units for each office. That is an easy solution, but can result in some areas being too hot and others too cold. Even so, this is probably the best solution if you are renovating an old building. One advantage is that each office has control of its own air conditioning, and the people there can set it to the temperature they want.
One problem with air conditioning, and one that is often overlooked, is air conditioning maintenance. Not that many firms are able to maintain these units, and those that can are used to dealing with very big office blocks with centralised systems.
Nowadays there are specialists in office refurbishment in all those cities with old buildings, and even in some without. Suitable cities for getting an office refurbished are Bristol, Bath, Reading and Bradford. Air conditioning and office refurbishment Leeds go together very well, owing the large number of buildings that have been refurbished over the past 20 years or so.
You will find that a refurbished office is an economical alternative to a new office, and many people prefer to work in old buildings. Therefore, such a move is good for morale.