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The winners of the CBRE Meeting Room of the Year 2016 competition for the best office in the Czech Republic have been announced

The CBRE Meeting Room of the Year Competition 2016 has announced the winner of all categories at a presentation ceremony at Corso Court in Karlín in Prague. BlueLink won the Meeting Room of the Year category, Accolade won the Office as the DNA of the Company category, Avast took the Most Attractive Working Environment, with Kentico Software winning the Healthy Office (expert guarantor the Czech Green Building Council), ComAp won the Future-proof and Innovative Offices category (expert guarantor Skanska), STRV won the Smart Office category (technical supervisor Microsoft) and Expedia won the Special Jury Prize and SAP took the Public Prize. 

The fact that the competition for the best office in the Czech Republic has gained more prestige every year is demonstrated by the following facts:

Sector:

The professional jury selected winners from a record 37 finalists representing various sectors this year such as media and marketing (2FRESH, ALL IN AGENCY, Socialsharks and Young & Rubicam Praha), e-commerce (BIBLOO.cz), the financial sector (ČSOB, DRFG or KKCG), architecture (K4), energy companies (Innogy), IT ( abdoc technology, Follow Bubble, Invision LABS Prague and Price f (x), law firms (White & Case), education (International Study Programs or TLC Trainings and Languages), manufacturing (Hall and FEI Czech Republic), engineering (Wikov or TGS machine-tools-technology services), construction (JRD), services (LOGI) today, food (Nestle) and shared HUBs (RegioHub)

Public Prize:

We received over 5,600 votes in the Public Prize.

Design:

We noticed a significantly larger number of quality office designs compared to recent years.

Regions:

Finalists came from throughout the different regions of the Czech Republic, with DRFG, FEI Czech Republic, K4, Kentico software, TLC Trainings and Languages based in Brno, JEŽ – kamenické práce from Loděnice, SERVISBAL OBAL from Dobruška, STYLE PLUS from Litomyšl, the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, TGS from Mýto u Rokycan and Wikov from Hronov.

Prestige:

More than 210 companies have joined the competition since the first year in 2014. The chairwoman of the jury is the renowned architect Eva Jiřičná, with leading companies in their fields. The competition was created in the Czech Republic and has gained an international character, where it has expanded to Slovakia, Austria and Romania.

The professional jury is composed of Eva Jiřičná, Biljana Weber - Microsoft, Marie Passburg - Skanska, Richard Curran - CBRE, Tomáš Jindříšek – Dark Side, Pavel Maurer and Josef Němec – Němec - luxurious places that were chosen on the basis of the evaluation criteria in terms of design, originality, innovation, practicality and attractive working environment for employees, of which they personally visited some of the companies.

Eva Jiřičná, renowned architect and jury president of CBRE Meeting Room of the Year said:

“From a design perspective, attention to the offices this year is significantly bigger and reflected in the better quality than in previous years. Lighting and light quality in offices should be given more emphasis, together with the furniture, exteriors and job placements.”

This year’s winners of the CBRE Meeting Room of the Year competition show how quickly changes have come to the office environment. While the numbers of offices that have followed new office trends have been minimal in past years, a few years later unique layouts and elements in the office have emerged. This change is possible thanks to innovations and technologies that will bring new trends.

Petra Lávičková, Head of Marketing & PR at CBRE, the organizer of CBRE Meeting Room of the Year, said:

"I am very glad that the CBRE Meeting Room of the Year competition has fulfilled its primary purpose, helping to educate and inspire the market through sharing information, videos and photos of participants in the project. The project highlights offices which are among the “top” on the Czech market and the ceremony has become one of the biggest events in its field. However, the competition would not be possible without the support of our partners and judges and for that they deserve a big thank you."