Ditching Cubicles: Barringer Construction’s Revolutionary Take on Modern Workspaces

I've got the man himself, Brian Didiano, who's the market lead for barringer Construction here at Great Partners, CTS. And what we want to do today is hear Brian's opinion and thoughts that went into their new office that we were fortunate enough to have a part of. They use it for not just their employees to enjoy, but we do a lot of events here. With that, Brian, thanks for coming. It's nice to have you. Thank you, man. So we wanted a very collaborative environment. So we kind of copied a lot from our co working time to have no walled offices inside this building. We wanted to be very collaborative pre construction and construction to talk to each other when pandemic hit, and of course people now don't want to come back to work, they don't want to come back to the traditional is just a cute farm. I think a lot of employers that I'm talking to, a lot of my clients, they want to build a space that's representative of their call but also has the amenities inside it to attract employees back to work. That's the number one thing that I'm seeing more than anything else. Working with a client now and signing their space. And traditionally, it would have been a lot of wall offices with some cubes inside the administrative and support staff, but now they're looking at how do we build in amenity in the breakroom to include pool table, to include a foosball table, and work we have, you know, putting throughout the office. We wanna make sure it's a fun space that attracts not only their current employees, which is retainage, but also attracts their future talent, which is acquisition. This local market, you know, I'm trying my best to evangelize for lack of better term to, you know, the architectural community and the real estate community. Hey, look, you know, the days of of just getting an office space and putting people in a cube farm they they have to be over. Right? Because when Apple and Google post jobs, you're top talent, they're bouncing. Listen to your employees. Figure out what they want. Ask them straight up. What do you want in this space? Whether it be a life science lab, whether it be a office, ask them what they want, what they're interested in because that's key. When we built this space, it wasn't just being my vision. I had all of our employees play a part. I think every one of our employees here at Behringer feel like this is their home. And not just the people who work here, but are feel to pretend it's also kinda cool to see when the reflection of an organization is in their Right? And this is a perfect reflection of bearing structure. Thank you. So all the technology that you have around here. How do you guys use it? Do you enjoy it? Is there is there anything you'd do different? You know, talk to me about that. Sure. Sure. So, you know, moving into new space and, you know, having a partner a strategic partner that's saying just help me out. You know, tell me what I need. And one thing I didn't want was that invoice cords to plug in in all of our conference rooms. So Tom gave us through his AV consultant, all the solstice lots, and we love it. We love that we could just take our phone out, throw up on the screen, sit down anywhere, any of these chairs, couches, and have a meeting on the screen wirelessly. Furthermore, more than that, Tom was integral to helping us with our WiFi service and we have a sister office in Charlotte coordinating our server and everything else on the infrastructure side, integral and help make sure that we were operational day one and we have not had one hiccup. It's flawless. One thing I just wanna pause you and and maybe make a correction. You said, Tom. Wasn't really Trust me. If I was the one to design any of this you would have called me every day. Right? So Anthony and the team, they just did an awesome job. Amazing. Having said all that, Brian, thank you so much for your time today and you partnership as always and, yeah, we look forward to working together a lot more in the future. Absolutely. Thank you so much. Thank you.