A new landmark project room has been launched in the UK, offering businesses the opportunity to gain more agile ways of project working.

European office furniture supplier, Kinnarps has introduced Next Gen Project Rooms, which cleverly combine an interactive digital canvas and flexible furniture to solve the problem of locked down project rooms.

The Kinnarps furniture in the room includes perching T-stools and balls, sit-stand desks and comfortable office chairs meaning all room uses are covered from a stand up 'scrum' project session to a working lunch.

Marc Bird, Marketing Director at Kinnarps UK, commented: "Traditionally, confidential projects – in the finance or technology industry, for example – require a dedicated room to be locked down for weeks, which means other people can't book the room for meetings. Kinnarps' Next Gen Project Room lets project teams use the room only when they need to. The mix of the interactive screen, video conferencing facility and flexible furniture ensures a productive session involving global team members. The ROI is a no-brainer."


Ascentae is the exclusive UK distributor of the technology. Jon Knight, Commercial Director at Ascentae, added: "The digital canvas – which can physically range from two to 18 meters long and go around corners – can give you up to 60m of digital workspace. You can scroll the canvas along with your hand, tap to add handwritten notes or Post-Its and amend documents. It automatically saves the work, via secure cloud-based software, to be available to all members of the project team."

The average cost of space in London for a typical project room is approximately £22,500 per annum. The lead in price for a NGPR is £7,500 meaning a business could re-coup the cost within six months.