BCO South West Talk & Tour: Sbarc | Spark, Cardiff University

Cardiff University’s award-winning sbarc|spark building was named ‘Best Corporate Workplace’ in South of England and South Wales by the British Council for Offices (BCO).

Situated on Cardiff University’s Innovation Campus, sbarc|spark features 12,000m² of workspaces, labs, exhibition areas, recreational zones, and breakout spaces. It supports a dynamic and growing community of more than 700 individuals from a wide range of backgrounds, encouraging innovation and cross-sector collaboration.

It benefits from state-of-the-art amenities, public event spaces, with a visually striking and functional centrepiece – the ocular staircase – which spirals upward through the seven-storey space, encouraging movement and interaction, as well as the flexible workspaces, labs, and exhibition areas which create an inspiring environment for students, academics, entrepreneurs and the wider community.

It hosts SPARK — the world’s first social science research park — which unites 16 Cardiff University-led interdisciplinary research groups alongside more than 20 third-sector partners, who are working together to tackle local and global challenges.