Shell Business Centre
Corporate
Campus-wide AV implementation and the update of the audiovisual standard for Shell’s business centres worldwide
Kraków
Crestron, Extron, Panasonic, Barco, Logitech
Shell Business Operations in Kraków employs more than 3.8 thousand specialists representing 50 nationalities and working in 20 languages. They deal with such area as financial support, procurement, logistics and service provision for the large, international organisation. The solutions we implemented have an impact on the business development of the entire corporation, which globally provides jobs to 93,000 employees in over 70 countries around the world.
Work on such diverse projects with a wide range of service in many business areas requires the provision of innovative solutions to facilitate the firm’s processes and day-to-day activities. For this reason, A+V not only took up the challenge of deploying the AV system across the campus, but also used the experience gained in this project to upgrade the AV solutions standard at all Shell business centres in the world. The developer and general contractor for the buildings where the AV systems were implemented was the BUMA Group from Krakow.
Our client considered it important for the AV system in the new facility to be based on a high-quality internal technological standard, while providing tangible benefits to the business. The key objective, determined during consultations and workshops with the client, was to increase work efficiency and create attractive workspaces as an added value expected by the HR department. Given the importance of the tasks performed by employees, a high premium was also placed on ensuring reliability and security of the AV system.
As a result, we designed and implemented modern and stable audiovisual systems in such spaces as conference rooms and meeting rooms of various sizes, lobbies and customer areas, canteens, town halls, game rooms and open spaces.
Our designers came up the right equipment and software adapted to the individual working needs in each space. All was designed to ensure harmonised, intuitive and fully automatic operation throughout the campus. In addition to the automatic mode, in larger spaces users can also manage the system by means of control keyboards and touch panels, whose graphical user interface was designed in accordance with Shell’s corporate visual identity standard.
Equipping the Shell Energy Campus office complex in Kraków is a project we started for Shell in 2016 in the “Kraków Technology Park” special economic zone. The assignment was completed in February 2019, and the last building of the complex was formally opened in March 2019. The centre comprises five buildings, which are among the most modern office facilities in the country. They were gradually equipped with AV systems and placed in service.
Our specialists implemented AV systems for various purposes in office and amenity areas of nearly 40 thousand sqm in total. The Kraków Shell Business Operations complex is an advanced business centre supporting finance, procurement, logistics and IT operations for the entire corporation. It is one of Shell’s five global operating centres. A+V was a full-service audiovisual system contractor – it designed, delivered, and installed the equipment, implemented and trained employees, and currently provides SLA-guaranteed hardware and software maintenance services.
