Design and build company is shortlisted for industry award

Habit Action, which also has offices in Stapleford, Cambridgeshire, and Gough Square, London, is a finalist in the Mix Awards 2024, an annual event that celebrates the best projects, products and people in commercial interior design.

It has been selected in the ‘project of the year – design and build’ category for its work transforming a 55,000 sq ft office space at Technology House in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, which it completed last November.

The year-long project, for Atlas Copco Group UK, saw Habit Action strip the space to its shell and core, install a striking glass entrance and self-supporting timber staircase, and create a fluid but characterful design to guide visitors from reception to breakout areas and collaborative first-floor meeting suites.

It also adopted a sustainable approach to the fit-out in which it reused existing furniture and raised access flooring, and fitted solar panels to the building’s extensive roof. This resulted in it being nominated as a finalist in the Sustainable Design Awards 2024.

Darren McCarry, managing director of Habit Action, said: “To be named as a finalist in the Mix Awards is a great honour; I couldn’t be prouder of our team.”

He added: “A multimillion-pound construction project like Atlas requires a lot of planning and coordination with the client and contractors.

“Completing it has given us the credibility and confidence to accelerate our growth plans, so, all being well, you can expect to see us nominated for many more awards like this in the future.”

Habit Action is one of eight finalists in its category, with the winner due to be announced at a black tie event in Battersea, south-west London, on 27 June.