Key milestone for BT Group’s flagship Sheffield office building

The tech and telecommunications firm celebrated the milestone alongside representatives from SGI and Oliver Coppard, Mayor of South Yorkshire.

Delegates gathered at the seven-storey, 65,000 sq ft office building to hold a hand-over ceremony, marking the completion of the building’s structure and preparing it for the next phase of its development.

BT Group will now progress the fit-out and kit-out of the building to prepare to welcome staff next year.

Endeavour forms part of BT Group’s Better Workplace programme, one of the largest workplace improvement and consolidation schemes of its type ever undertaken in the UK.

Sheffield joins other key locations including Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, and Glasgow in undergoing a workplace transformation under the programme.

It also follows the multi-million-pound refurbishments of BT Group’s contact centres across the UK, including its site in nearby Doncaster.

Mr Coppard said: “The Endeavor building is located within South Yorkshire’s Investment Zone – the first to launch in the UK. It’s a really exciting time for our region.”

Brent Mathews, property director at BT Group, added: “This investment demonstrates BT Group’s continued commitment to Sheffield and Yorkshire, which remains central to our long-term plans.”

BT Group will take up all floors in the 65,000 sq ft building.

The Endeavour building is the final phase of the Sheffield Digital Campus and will allow colleagues to collaborate and to work more efficiently.

Adam Varley, development director at SGI, said: “Our decision to proceed with the speculative development of Endeavour in the midst of the pandemic was driven by our confidence that the building would have a meaningful impact on the wider city, stimulating the creation of new jobs and driving economic growth; a decision that was later rewarded having secured BT Group.”