Aztec chief: Modern offices must be designed with care

Real Estate Weekly, Oct 3, 2001 by Charles Otis Logan

Modern office space obviously has to be functional, efficient, cost effective, and flexible to meet the needs of corporate competition. This includes the integration of technology and furniture, access to resources, and informational data banks. With the labor pool today being as tight and competitive as it is, companies are forced to create environments that can. retain existing employees, as well as attract new ones.

These corporations are changing the way business is performed. Moving from a highly structured corporate environment to a more entrepreneurial, team/studio vignette organization will allow for faster and easier research, development, and implementation of new products and ideas. Such entrepreneurial spirit allows a corporation to reach the market faster and respond to the competitive swings of this high-speed technological age.

In keeping with the spirit of an entrepreneurial corporation, "Total Architecture" has evolved from The Aztec Corporation through an in-depth understanding of a corporation's business objectives. The first key element of the program involves assisting a corporation in developing an action plan structured which allows for the company's facilities plan to be brought into parallel with its business plan. Then, the implementation and comprehensive execution of each project is structured in such a way that the facility is flexible.

The comprehensive understanding of both fixed and soft peripheral issues of a company's environment is the core of what "Total Architecture" is. These soft peripheral issues that are essential to the success of a corporation include the quality of life factor. These intangibles are part of the issue in the retention and hiring of staff members. The Aztec Corporation will assist corporations in creating a working office environment that reflects a productive, creative, flexible, cost effective, fun, people-oriented place to work.