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While it has been a long and lonely few months for many of us (little darling), the silver lining is that bikes are returning to the streets…in droves. Cities across the globe are witnessing historic increases in ridership: 52% in NYC, 300% in Melbourne, 48% in Vancouver, and over 100% on London’s bike share service. […]

From towels and lockers to face masks and beds When the number of coronavirus cases started ramping up across the globe, we knew that business (and life for that matter) was going to be far from normal for quite a while. Unemployment rates had already skyrocketed and the death toll was climbing. On top of […]

For every building offering a (complimentary) towel service, it’s almost inevitable: towel loss. Do towels magically grow legs and walk off? Probably not. A more likely scenario would be that some people are still half asleep, even after a refreshing shower (we get it, early mornings…), and accidentally put the towel in their locker or […]

When it comes to bike parking, there’s no one size fits all. While some go full Lycra riding a race bike every day of the week, others rather enjoy a casual, easy ride on their Dutch bike. This very fact means the following: different riders ride different bikes and, therefore, want different bike racks. This […]

Variety is the spice of life, or so they say. Who are “they” you ask? “They” are 52.4% of the respondents to a recent survey conducted by Five At Heart in London whereby we asked what aspects are currently not featuring in developments/portfolios that would be a great inclusion. Over half of the respondents (52.4%) […]

Just like the button on your jeans post Christmas, developments often feel the squeeze when it comes to space availability for bike parking and wellness facilities. Sadly, there is no “building diet” to free up space for much-needed bike parking but there are some clever ways to optimise and maximise your facility space without compromising […]

Just like any other space, end-of-trip facilities need to be safe, easily accessible and efficient to use. To make sure the facility is all of these things, it’s important to consider the user or traffic flow when designing the space. How do people enter and exit the facility? Are there other mode shares (and therefore: traffic flows) in the […]