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SEB is relocating employees from 5 different locations in Vilnius to the new building. It will employ 1.1 thousand people. persons.
“The goal was for employees from 5 different locations to move into one building. This is the biggest savings. We rented about 18 thousand. square meters, and now this building is 12.9 thousand. kv. meters, “Aivaras Čičelis, the bank’s vice president, told reporters on Thursday.
Photo by Lukas Balandi / 15min / Aivaras Čičelis
The bank’s new headquarters consists of two buildings with atriums arranged at full height. However, according to A.Čičelis, the building is distinguished by the fact that it appears to form a new crosswalk in Vilnius: it will be accessible from both Konstitucijos Avenue and Upės Street.
“The ground floor is intended for the public, citizens, guests will be able to move freely here, go to the restaurant to eat, drink coffee, sit in the amphitheater, communicate with colleagues, bankers or with their friends. More than a fifth of the building it’s open to the public. Everywhere, employees move around with their card, “he said.
Lukas April / 15min photo / Presentation of the SEB Bank headquarters
In total, there will be 840 traditional jobs in the building, or 75 percent. of the total number of employees. In addition, another 440 jobs will be alternatives.
“When an employee comes to work in the morning, he has to decide if he wants to go and work with his department, if he needs more concentration, he can go to a small place where he can do work that requires concentration, or he simply wants to work near atriums , or go to a cooperative. space, “said A.Čičelis.
Lukas April / 15min photo / Presentation of the SEB Bank headquarters
There is a corporate wireless connection throughout the building, so a person can change the workplace at any time and go anywhere in the building.
“There are fewer traditional jobs so that we have the opportunity to create alternative jobs, and the employee, depending on the nature of the job, would choose the day he wants to do,” said A. Čičelis.
Lukas April / 15min photo / Presentation of the SEB Bank headquarters
The SEB Innovation Center, currently located on Savanorių Avenue, will also be located on the ground floor.
“We will try to have 10 to 12 new companies with us all the time, we will give them not only a place, but also mentoring, and together we will look for products, cooperation opportunities, what we can do together,” said A.Čičelis.
Lukas April / 15min photo / Presentation of the SEB Bank headquarters
There will be a customer service center on the second floor, with buffet areas and meeting rooms.
There is a paddle tennis court next to the building with the help of Šarūnas Marčiulionis, but there is also a grandmother who has not agreed to sell her house.
“She is a very interesting woman. In the summer she lives here, in the winter she goes to Poland with her children. She comes here in the summer as a farm,” he said, adding that the woman was very happy with the neighborhood of the new building.
Lukas April / 15min photo / Presentation of the SEB Bank headquarters
There is a dedicated common area on each staff floor where people can sit down for coffee and informal conversation.
A solar power plant is installed on top of the building, which supplies part of the building’s engineering systems. At the same time, it is equipped with a novelty: biodynamically efficient lighting, which adapts to human biological rhythms and corresponds to the cycle of natural light, as if we were outdoors.
“The intensity of the light varies according to the external lighting. Brighter in the morning, brighter at night. It automatically adapts to the natural rhythms of light, depending on the exterior and interior light. “
Under the building there is a parking for 200 cars, 50 for electric cars. There is also space for scooters and bicycles.
The building was constructed by the construction company Veikmės statyba in Vilnius, and the client is the investment management company Lords LB Asset Management. The interior was designed by architect Gil Teodora Gylytė, a partner of DO architects.
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