In approximatively one year's time, ING Luxembourg will move its headquarters to Place de la Gare in Luxembourg city; construction works are proceeding; workshops and reviews are being undertaken in order to make this new headquarters a great place to work. Let’s have a quick update about the project.

What is Orange Bricks?

Announced in 2010, Orange Bricks is the name given to an ambitious project of ING Luxembourg. The aim of  this project is to centralise and gather all of the Bank’s activities within one symbolic building instead of currently four separate buildings spread out across the city.

Being all together is important for the bank as we are convinced that we will improve ING Luxembourg’s services to customers, its accessibility and visibility. The central location of this new HQ will facilitate access to public transport and will also strengthen our local roots in the Grand-Duchy.

What about the building?

The construction of our new headquarters is on-going. The Orange Bricks team is confident that the “closed shell” phase, which includes the roof slab and installed window frames, will continue until the end of this year, to be thereafter followed by the completion and finishing works.

But the Orange Bricks project goes beyond simple bricks. It’s a project that has existed for 5 years now and that brings together multiple aspects such as infrastructure, organisation, sales, marketing & communications, IT, HR, legal, risk and procurement.

This move is also a great opportunity for ING to re-think the way we have been working - from our working environment to new working habits as well as new tools. So, it will be a real New Way of Working.

It is challenging in a way, but also really unifying for the whole bank! It’s a great way to listen to employees, to understand their needs and to give them the chance to express themselves.

A Proof of Concept was designed to test the diverse aspects of the Orange Bricks programme in order to take relevant decisions and choose the best options, always taking into account different parameters. One department of the bank is thus currently experimenting, among others, with the different working areas, the functionalities of new furniture and equipment, and the organisations.

If you would like to follow the construction of our new building, follow ING Luxembourg on Instagram (see http://instagram.com/explore/tags/ingorangebricks/)