SEB Global Services in Riga starts relocation to the newly built office

SEB Global Services centre in Riga has started to relocate its employees to the newly built office GUSTAVS in Teika. Currently, almost 500 employees have already moved in the new building, and the relocation will be completed by end of June when all 1200 employees will work under one roof.
The new building was built and equipped according to the highest requirements of BREEAM New Construction Excellent Fully-fitted certificate of sustainable construction, and GUSTAVS will be the first building in Latvia with a certificate of this level and scope. It has six floors above ground and underground parking in two levels. The glazed roof, supported by wooden beams, allows abundant natural light to enter the atrium. The building is equipped with spacious and multifunctional work areas, meeting rooms of various sizes, electric car charging facilities, bicycle storage, showers and changing rooms in the underground parking lot. Solar panels are installed on the roof of the building.
Aļesja Kirčenko, Deputy Head of SEB Global Services in Riga:
“When we started this project in the summer of 2021, we set our ambition to create GUSTAVS as one of the most modern, inspiring and sustainable office buildings in Riga. Now we can proudly say that that we have accomplished this mission. GUSTAVS is an activity-based office with an open layout and varios work environments, giving colleagues the opportunity to choose the most convenient place for their tasks. The new building will become a platform that will allow us to continue our growth trajectory, while paying a lot of attention to the well-being of our employees”.
In addition to comfortably furnished workspaces in the amount of 11 000 square meters, the new building also offers to employees a gym, a lunch restaurant, game rooms, parents’ and childrens’ rooms, a room for meditation and rooms for short nap breaks, a library and a roof terrace. To take care of employee’s well-being, a modern air quality and climate control system as well as biodynamic lighting system have been installed in the building.
An inspiring atmosphere in GUSTAVS will be created by a collection of artworks by the new-generation Latvian artists, created by art curator Auguste Petre. The collection includes over 30 works of art – paintings, drawings, photographs, art objects as well as digital and textile works of art.
Before the relocation employees of SEB Global Services in Riga were situated in three different buildings in Pārdaugava. The new office not only allows colleagues from different departments to work together more efficiently, but also to choose more environmentally friendly means of mobility, such as bicycles, scooters, electric scooters or electric cars.
Construction of GUSTAVS was started in August 2021. Galio Development are the owners and developers of the project. Construction works were carried out by Merks, and the architects are Vilnis Mičulis.
SEB Global Services in Riga has 1200 employees, providing SEB Group companies in Scandinavia, the Baltic States and other regions of the world with a wide range of business services, such as payment processing and cash management services, processing of securities transactions, compliance and risk management, services related to the prevention of financial crime, development and maintenance of IT systems as well as other services.