Network Rail now arriving at iconic Birmingham offices

The engineering company has moved from The Mailbox to 85,000 sq ft of refurbished office space at Baskerville House, located in Centenary Square.

Network Rail’s new Birmingham office boasts meeting rooms of various styles, a staff restaurant, kitchen, a comfortable waiting area and active communications rooms from which to operate.

The move to its new premises was given the go ahead as the previous office had aged significantly, and would have proved difficult to transform with a fit out. Baskerville House was the perfect choice as it is within a 10-minute walk of Grand Central train station.

Danny Parmar, business development manager at Overbury’s Birmingham-based team, said: “We were delighted to have secured the fit out for Network Rail under competitive bidding. This was helped by the pre-existing relationship we have with Network Rail, having worked with the company before.

“It is a very well-known and much loved building within the city, and there was a lot of interest in Network Rail’s move when news of it spread last year. This made it an even more attractive proposition for us as it gave us a platform on which to showcase our high quality work.”

The 17-week refurbishment programme consisted of phased handovers on a floor-by-floor basis, which required careful planning and collaboration between the project team and Network Rail employees to ensure minimum disruption to day-to-day operations.

Delighted with the completed office, Network Rail has nominated the new workspace for a British Council for Offices award – an industry accolade which recognises the most inspirational offices across the country and celebrates best practice in commercial fit out.

Network Rail owns and operates the railway infrastructure in England, Wales and Scotland. That’s 20,000 miles of track, 40,000 bridges and viaducts and thousands of tunnels, signals, level crossings and points. It also manages rail timetabling and 18 of the largest stations in England, Scotland and Wales. It works round-the-clock to provide a safe, reliable experience for the millions using Europe’s fastest-growing railway every day.