Thursday, February 26, 2009

OMG HOW FUN WOULD THIS BE! UNLESS YOU HAVE A DRESS ON I GUESS! SANDY


Pictured: Britain's first indoor office helter skelter sees staff slide down three floors in just seven seconds
By Daily Mail Reporter

It takes just seven seconds for staff to slide down the spiralling tube from the third floor to the ground floor in the hi-tech development.
And the firm Electric Works, believes the gimmick could be a winner after fitting it in Sheffield city centre's new Digital Campus.
The first tenants move in next week and will have exclusive use of the building's indoor helter skelter.

Going down? The new Electric Works in Sheffield with the UK's first office helter skelter for workers

The office complex is the first in the country to include a slide, which is designed to take people from the third floor to the ground floor reception area in an exhilarating seven seconds.

According to the building's managers, several companies have already been attracted by the unusual addition, which they insist is not a gimmick, but a way of making the block unique.
Business with pleasure: Building managers insist the slide is not a gimmick, but a way of making the block unique
Toby Hyam, who helped design Electric Works, described the helter skelter as a 'statement about risk-taking' adding that a lot of new businesses in the centre would be doing just that.

He added: 'We have put quite a lot of thought into what this all about and we wanted to make a big effort to make this place special. We won't be putting another helter skelter in anywhere else.
'We know that it will be a novelty at first, and we don't know whether it will that novelty will wear off, but if you are having a meeting with a client and people are whizzing past, it will be memorable.'

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