How Developer MEPC Is Future Proofing Manchester

The Caleb Parker Show

Leaning into Space-as-a-Service, culture and community.

Quote from Guest: “Our buildings incorporate amenities and wellness spaces, but we also consider how they sit in the wider community.” - Dan Hyde

Summary: Dan Hyde, Development Director at MEPC Limited joins Bold founder Caleb Parker for Episode 5 of Season 9 where they discuss the importance of embedding community, culture and inclusivity into city centre developments and existing infrastructure.

In this episode Caleb and Dan discuss whether Manchester is fit for Generation Alpha, the different projects MEPC Ltd are working on across the UK and leaning into space as a service as a leasing strategy.

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Value Bombs:

We were surprised that a lot of what they said in terms of the workplace and how that's got to be was around inclusivity, about being kind, about feeling happy, about feeling supported. - Dan

Making sure that we are really involved in the community, not the community the communities, because it's made up of lots of different communities, how we involve them all in its progression and its evolution over the 10 year period. - Dan

How do you value it from day one? - Dan

Flex has been solving those, what we call touchdown spaces for quite some time. -Caleb

With the flex, with these added amenities, it's much more attractive proposition. - Dan

Its really elevated Manchester to be a really attractive proposition for International companies looking to inward invest into the UK, as a genuine alternative to London. - Dan

We're doing this for investors, but that gives it longevity. That will mean the next lease cycle people are still there to let up these buildings because they want to be part of that environment. - Dan

Timestamps:

[0.36] Why Dan wanted to attend MIPIM

[01.30] Is Manchester fit for generation Alpha?

[02.39] What the NOMA Project is

[04.29] How they incorporate space as a service into their assets

[07.15] The challenges with how buildings are valued

[08.50] Current trends with flex space

[10.19] Why is Manchester on fire?

[13.24] Future proofing community spaces

Resources:

NOMA

PWC

Federated Hermes

Standard Practice

Shout outs:

Wellington Place

Paradise Birmingham

St Mary Le Port

Sam Gamble

John Rowan

Becca Heron

Andy Burnham

About Dan Hyde

Dan Hyde, Development Director at MEPC Limited who manage some of the UK's best known commercial property, with seven Business Estates set in prime locations throughout the UK. Together they provide over 4 million sq ft of high quality space for more than 350 organisations, employing over 12,000 people. With a portfolio in excess of £650 million

Sponsors:

Headline Sponsor: DeltaQ

DeltaQ is a Top 3 European PropTech solution for reducing the carbon footprint of the built environment. Operating from the centre of Brussels, they have developed a solution that learns to predict the behaviour of a building (in context of comfort and energy use) and leverages these predictions to automatically steer the energy systems.

DeltaQ improves comfort while maximising energy and CO2 savings and allows operational teams to turn their attention to added value work instead of repetitive tasks and constant finetuning.

When deployed over a large volume of buildings, DeltaQ will deliver an important contribution to realising the world’s ambition in the fight against climate change.

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