How a Battery-Powered Agile Workplace Transforms Value, Persona by Persona
By Robert Kroon
The true disruption of the Agile Workplace is not the furniture itself, but the financial model it creates by untethering power from the floorplan. By embracing intelligent power solutions and battery-powered Agile Furniture, the traditional costs and roadblocks of a retrofit dissolve, creating a new, compelling value proposition for every stakeholder.
The Agile Workplace disruption appeals to every stakeholder.
For Commercial Real Estate Building Owners & REITs: Maximizing Asset Value
A static, AC-powered building is a liability in a tenant-driven market, resulting in significant stranded assets. Every tenant move-in or reconfiguration requires an expensive, disruptive, and time-consuming electrical overhaul.
For Facilities Managers: Operational Efficiency & Reduced OpEx
In a traditional office, a simple department move can become a logistical nightmare, requiring electrical permits and licensed labor. This drives up operational costs and creates unacceptable downtime.
For Architects & Commercial Interior Designers: Unleashing Design Freedom
The need to design around fixed floor outlets and electrical core feeds stifles creativity and limits a space’s ability to evolve.
For Electrical Design Firms & Contractors: Streamlined Projects & New Revenue
The complexity and labor intensity of conventional electrical retrofits are a major source of project delays and risk.
The Strategic Imperative
The choice between a static, AC-powered office and an Agile Workplace is fundamentally a choice between sinking costs and building adaptable, appreciating assets. Retrofitting with intelligent power solutions and our suite of products—Respond!, Juce, CampFire, and Wallies—de-risks the commercial asset and maximizes profitability in the face of rapidly changing tenant demands.
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About the author
Bob Kroon is a recognized thought leader and innovator with over four decades of experience in the electro-mechanical and furniture industries. As the CEO and founder of August Berres, he envisions overcoming the limitations of traditional building power by enabling the Agile Workplace through a smart power ecosystem.
Bob passionately advocates for technologies such as building microgrids, fault-managed power (FMP), and battery-powered Agile Furniture, which are transforming the design and utilization of commercial spaces. Under his leadership, a suite of innovative solutions has been brought to market, including Respond!, Juce, CampFire, and Wallies. These products empower building owners, architects, and facility managers to retrofit buildings for today’s dynamic work environment.
