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Covid Policy

Please note the TB Covid Policy is detailed under the download section below. Please always follow the HSE guidelines

What is a “Dedicated Desk”

The Dedicated Desks are situated in our Co-Working Space and are our largest desk at 2 meters wide and 800mm deep

You can set up your permanent computer, monitors, filing, printer etc for your business

When you book a Dedicated Desk you have sole use of your desk for the duration of your stay, its your work area for your sole use.

You can also register your business address at this location and have all your post directed to your Dedicated Desk

A Dedicated Desk member has fob access and can avail of all facilities, including meeting rooms and meeting booths free of charge

You can share a Dedicated Desk with one other user if both of you are working part time (not at the same time). A shared dedicated desk has a larger rental rate per month, see services & rates page.

Dedicated Desks come at a low cost per day rate when compared to Hot Desks based on them being longer term and invoiced per month.

Dedicated desks have a minimum 3 month letting, you can terminate at any time after 3 months with just 1 months notice in writing via email to info@thebuildingblock.ie. Due to the demand for our Dedicated desks you cannot put a ‘hold’ on your desk letting to facilitate holidays etc.

What is a “Hot Desk”

Our Hot Desks are situated in our Co-Working Space

A Hot Desk is a temporary desk provided on a daily basis.

A Hot Desk member has access 09:00 to 17:30 Mon to Fri and is provided with an access pin to come and go as required.

If you are using a Hot Desk for more then a couple of weeks we would recommend you consider a Dedicated Desk as they come at a low cost per day rate when compared to Hot Desks

BOOKING A MEETING ROOM AT THE BUILDING BLOCK

If you are not a Dedicated Desk Member but would like to Book a Meeting Room

For general event bookings please apply online by clicking button “Make an Enquiry”

If you are a Dedicated Desk Member

The meeting rooms below can be booked for free by Dedicated Desk Members using the instructions below

Check availability of room by clicking on links below

1. Rushe Meeting Room Online Diary
2. Nugent Meeting Room Online Diary

If available space on online diary, use instructions provided by TBB (and as detailed on doors of meeting rooms) to complete booking, its self service.

Check booking updated on diary link, it may take a minute, it will not book a past time, limits are set to advanced bookings and recurring bookings.

Make sure to cancel any bookings you cannot attend to free up rooms.

Fair use policy applies! Less then 2 hours per day please, note RnRs

If you are a Dedicated Desk Member or Hot Desk User

You have Free use of

Meeting Booths X 3 – No booking required based on availability

Call Booths X 3 – No booking required based on availability

BOOKING EVENT SPACE

The Building Block has a large dedicated event area based in the Coworking Space

Our online Diary is HERE, click to check availability.

Normally we carter for large events in the evening or weekends as the event space is based in the open plan office.

Please contact us using the “Book Now” button on this webpage or email direct Info@TheBuildingBlock.ie

The Event Space caters for the following

• Seating for up to 100 people
• 4.3m X 3m Projector Screen
• Integrated Sound System and Mics
• 1 Gigabyte Synchronous Wifi
•  Technical Event Guide Setup Link

To book please detail the

1. Name Of Event
2. Purpose Of Event
3. Public Or Private (invite only Event)
4. Expected Number of Attendees
5. Preferred Date/s For Event
6. Preferred Start Time Of Event
7. Preferred End Time Of Event
8. Key Contact Name and Details For Event Management
9. Requirement for Tables/Chairs/Event Equipment
10. If you need a recommendation for catering let us know? This can be provided seperately by a local cafe/catering company. You are welcome to co-ordinate your own catering company.

Security and Access

Please note the area is monitored internally and externally by CCTV

Users of this office do so at their own risk. The management will not accept responsibility for any damages accidents or losses. Please have insurance in place for your own property.

Please use your fob for all access. Pins can be issued temporarily for emergency access in event of fob failure. Please note you should not lend your fob to anyone else, it is personal to you and all access is recorded online.

Please ensure all doors are closed behind you after they open, they should be locked at all times. Do not provide access to people who are not your guests (with exception of deliveries), if they are meant to be there they will have their own fob.

If you have any issues or concerns, please use the Contact Page on this webpage.

CLEANING SERVICE

Cleaning Services times

Every Tuesday 6:30pm – 8:00pm

Every Saturday 1:30pm – 3:00pm

TBB Office Cleaning Services

TBB provides a weekly cleaning service using Ballincastle Property Services . This services include, Cleaning and servicing the toilets, cleaning and servicing the kitchen including stocking Tea/Coffee/dishwasher tablets etc, dusting all surfaces including the desks, emptying all bins, cleaning windows and cleaning the vacuuming and mopping all floors.

Clean Kitchen Policy

The kitchen should be kept clean at all times, please leave it as you would like to find it, please stack your dirty cups/plates in the dishwasher and wipe down all services. Should the cups/plates etc in dishwasher be clean please empty it to insure there is not a build up of used cups/plates in or around the sink and kitchen area. Please use the overnight economy (5 hour delay) mode to save energy if running. Please note the fridge is cleaned out on the 1st Tuesday of every month, please remove all of your items or risk having them dumped.

Clean Desk Policy

TBB has a Clean Desk Policy and users a required to maintain their desk and the facilities in a clean and tidy fashion to enable cleaners to keep neat and tidy.

Waste Bins

Green / Recyclable Waste Bins are provide at each desk location for recyclable waste only.

Black / General Waste is stored under the sink in the canteen, these bins are labelled.

The waste is disposed of twice weekly as part of the cleaning services and emptied in the designated Green and Black bin in the laneway. The bins in the laneway are emptied bi-weekly by Barna Waste.

For any issues please contact Ballincastle Property Services

Heating Of Collaborative Area

Please note the heating is controlled centrally using programmed settings and should not be modified to ensure we maintaining a green office

Heating Settings

Mon to Fri 08:30 – 16:30pm

Temp 21 deg

Heating is off outside of these times

What happens if you find the temperature too cold or too hot

Based on the shape and size of the office, different parts will experience slightly different temperature. Whilst the heating temp is set at 21 degrees, this temperature is set at the height of the heating units and the air is circulated by fans, therefore you may experience a slightly lower temperature at different locations.

If there are consistent issues please use the Contact Page on this webpage to let the property manager know and they will investigate.

What happens if I am working or at an event outside of the set hours and the area is too cold.

Please raise the issue with management who can temporarily overwrite the set heating schedule by increasing the temperature on the control units. We would ask that when you leave the office space you make sure to click the off button to ensure the heating turns off, as if in boost mode it will remain on until the next timed on event, e.g. if boosted at 18:00 and not turned off, it will stay on all night (or all weekend if on a Friday) until it resets at 06:30 the following morning. As you can imagine energy usage for such a large area is substantial and the strong preference is that the controls are not interfered with wherever possible, and always turned off after use. This helps reduce operating costs substantially and make the building more green. Benefits we hope to be able to pass on to our tenants in keeping rates low.

Use of kitchen

The Kitchen is available to use by all Dedicated Desk members with free freshly ground coffee. Please always leave the kitchen as you would like to find it, keeping all surfaces clean

The Kitchen includes fridge, dishwasher, microwave, delph and cutlery and large dining table to have shared lunches together.

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The coworking space is similar to any professional modern open plan office, and co-workers are expected to make calls, have meetings etc as normal. That said co-workers should be considerate of noise so that others are not overly disturbed, and we have provided this section to provide some guidance to help its smooth operation.

• We have provided 3 X Phone Booths for single person meetings with their laptops/phones which can be used for online meetings or long calls, please consider using if making a longer call.
• If meeting a group please consider booking the 2 X Meeting Rooms or using the 3 X Meeting Booths provided.
• We request that coworkers use headphones rather then their computer speakers, (including in meeting booths).
• When using headphones please consider using a single ear piece rather then both if in open plan area, you may not be concious of how loud you are taking especially if using large headphones.
• If you have a specific concern with noise but do not feel comfortable dealing with it directly yourself please contact us on info@thebuildingblock.ie and we will do our best to address in a confidential manner.

HOW TO GET THE BEST OUT OF THE WI-FI

All Floors in TBB are covered by a seamless optic fiber gigabyte synchronous Wi-Fi network

You will need an 802.11AC compatible card or higher to see higher bandwidth speeds on 5Ghz frequency

Generally, wireless cards will outperform USB dongles. USB Wi-Fi dongles will be limited to throughput of USB port (if plugged into USB 2.0 port and not 3.0)

The broadband in TBB is also structured to allow for automatic fail-over to a back up broadband connection in the unlikely event of an outage

If you cannot connect at all, or if you are experiencing difficulty please log your issue on the contact form on this webpage listing it as an IT issue, detailing the time and date of issue including frequency. This helps our IT company identify any issues more quickly and remedy them

WHATS MY ADDRESS AND WHERE IS MY POST DELIVERED

The Current Address for Dedicated Desks in the Co-Working Area is as follows

Name Of Company

Desk XX

The Co-Working Area, Ground Floor

The Building Block, Bridge Street

Sligo, F91 XY2N

Post for the Co-working Area is delivered to the numbered pigeon holes, the number correspondences with your desk, please keep clean

The Current Address for Office Space on other floors is

Name Of Company

Main Entrance, 1st/2nd/3rd Floor

The Building Block

Bridge Street

Sligo

See Eircode Finder for Eircode Per Office

Post for the Office Spaces are delivered to post boxes in the main entrance at the bottom of the stair well, please request one to be allocated from the Property Manager

Contact Information

The Property Manager should be contacted for

Fob & Keys

Maintenance – all issues relating to common areas of the building and/or services therein

If an urgent issue please also call the Property Manager using the details below

If a major security or fire issue please call the Gardai or Fire Brigade first on 112 or 999

Contact details for Property Manager / Maintenance

Rory Conway, Ballincastle Property Services Ltd. PSRA License 001169

Tel : 071 9145005 Email : Maintenance@thebuildingblock.ie

Block 8 The Grove Complex,Clarion Road, Sligo. F91 A2F

For Accounting Queries

Rent/Deposit – Invoice/Statements/Payment queries

Please email Accounts@thebuildingblock.ie

Co-Working Area Queries

Viewings / check In / collection of fob / intro to area

Please contact Andrew@TheBuildingBlock.ie

Hot Desks/Dedicated Desks/Meeting Rooms/Events  = please fill in Book Online Form

Downloads

Technical Event Setup Manual

Fire Alarm and Lights Map

TBB Covid Policy

Map of Coworking Area