30 St Mary Axe move expresses the high value placed on teamwork at TClarke

4/4/22 : TClarke’s upcoming move to 30SMA signals a deep belief that success for the company and its people is driven by teamwork. Group CEO Mark Lawrence explains the reasons behind a move to a new HQ building in the City of London.

We are a company with a very strong brand reputation. Our brand is a real thing – a promise of innovation, success and safety that clients rely on to deliver their landmark engineering projects. It depends entirely on the quality of people we can bring to a project and their collective capabilities.

During the pandemic, many companies have questioned the value of bringing all their people together in the heart of the City of London, but we haven’t followed the herd. In fact, we’ve moved in the opposite direction. 

With the lease expiring at our current location, 30SMA gives TClarke the ideal opportunity to bring our London team together on a single floor. It’s a statement of belief in the value that comes from being together. It also represents a commercial decision that we consider both astute and timely, taking advantage of the property market at an opportune moment in the cycle, to secure the ideal space for our next phases of growth.

There are two direct and powerful drivers of this move.

Project success is driven by the efficiency with which our people share engineering knowledge and experience to solve problems and find solutions. The single shared space at 30SMA will ease the flow of ideas, collaboration and knowledge within our business. If you look at the way some of our world scale digital tech clients think of workspace (and we’ve been fortunate to be involved in creating many of their new HQ facilities) you will see exactly this logic applied. They work hard to make human interaction easier, more enjoyable and more effective. We are doing it too.

The second driver is focused on our people’s individual careers. The ease and speed with which you can build your networks, grow your knowledge and increase your confidence is incredibly important – both to success and job satisfaction. If you want people to feel inspired and to deliver innovation, then you need to create the right conditions for it to happen. 

30SMA will also act as an operational showcase for our ever evolving technologies and smart building business.

We are already fortunate to have a very strong ‘family’ atmosphere here where people go out of their way to help others learn and progress – I know this personally. This move is fundamentally about enhancing that atmosphere.

Overall, the move to 30SMA is another signal of confidence in our ability to achieve and sustain our growth goals. We are building the scale of our business and resource, while retaining and enhancing the strong brand characteristics for which we are known.

We look forward to welcoming the TClarke team, our clients and customers to our new home.