HOW LOCKER AND CABINET LOCKS ARE SHAPING THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
D estinations and destination spaces Nowhere is the need for smart, purposeful access control more prominent than in the rise of destination spaces, and especially destination offices. These offices are built with employee experience as a guiding principle. They give staff a real reason to forego the benefits of home working by creating environments that they want to commute to. They are designed to bring workers back into offices, and they are helping to combat the high office vacancy rates that the UK is witnessing. These offices also provide attractive meeting locations to help impress clients, partners and collaborators. Locker locks are crucial to the design of these environments, enabling the truly flexible and shareable features and functions that employees want. These range from active commuter lockers providing storage for biking gear, to tech libraries that make hardware sharing easy to manage. They can also allow for multi-purpose pick-up points that serve several needs, like parcel and food deliveries – something that wasn’t common but, according to Just Eat Business, increased by 25% in 2023. As well as offices, other destinations are turning to locker solutions to cater to people’s needs while making their spaces more attractive. One of the biggest applications with growing popularity is storage lockers for events. While some people may be used to these at museums, they’re now showing up in concert, festival, and sports environments to let people safely store their belongings while enjoying themselves. Though this could prove difficult to manage, using smart locks capable of granting unique time-sensitive access to different users via email or SMS alleviates that burden, while creating an effortless, frictionless user experience.
From destination offices to retrofits and third places, locker locks and cabinet systems are emerging as key enablers. Joanne Milne-Rowe, Managing Director at Codelocks explores these applications and the role of access control in people-focused environments. Spaces must be magnetic, drawing people to them. They must be sustainable, helping to minimise emissions and material waste when possible. And they must be flexible, to meet the varied needs of the
shared-use economy. Designers are facing new demands to meet these varied expectations. Yet, at a time when almost every square meter of space is being reimagined, access control is playing an essential role. From office pods to boutique hotels, access
control is no longer simply about managing entry points: it’s now a central design consideration when creating spaces that are
flexible and suitable for
today’s modern, self-service and multi-functional needs.
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