Mia Yellagonga

Woodside's new headquarters in Perth - "Mia Yellagonga," is an international workplace destination of choice. Showcasing significant innovations in workplace technologies, as well as health, wellbeing and connectivity; one is not overlooked in favour of the other, resulting in a truly balanced environment. With the main tower rising 32 levels the 64,000sqm Woodside campus features the highest Green Star rating possible in Australia (6 Stars), a 5 Star NABERS target rating and a raft of bespoke spaces invested in family, community, wellness and wellbeing. It is one of Australia’s first truly smart and well workplaces, delivering an holistic environment that aims to foster greater efficiencies, put Woodside ahead in innovation, and increase employee attraction, motivation and retention: helping Woodside to be a global employer of choice. Briefed to create a sustainable, leading-edge building for Woodside’s people, Unispace’s design challenges traditional notions of how a workplace should look, feel and function through considered interventions that promote healthy behaviours, social connection, collaboration and focus. The campus features integrated access to artificial intelligence leveraged through the Woodside relationship with IBM, an intelligent and autonomous robotics lab designed to deliver and showcase Woodside’s partnership with NASA, and frictionless biometric access technology by Siemens/Morpho/Idemia, making it one of Australia’s most technologically advanced and socially connected commercial workplaces. The lab features a Robonaut that Woodside has on loan for 60 months. The NASA Robonaut is testing how robotic technology could be used to support Woodside’s existing workforce and improve safety, reliability and efficiency in the company’s oil and gas operations. But it's not just technology that makes Mia Yellagonga so innovative. The overall success of the campus is credit to a truly collaborative effort between Woodside and Unispace. Every decision taken was balanced across people, place and technology to create a transformative new workplace for Woodside, enabling its vision to become a global leader in energy. The campus acknowledges that wellbeing is about providing a more meaningful experience that supports a pathway for healthier minds, bodies, places and cultures. Mia Yellagonga’s design recognises the importance of creating a healthy workplace culture, where business performance and human effectiveness are promoted and enabled as much as social and family connection. Work is catered for across a series of themed floors that provide varied work settings for employees to choose from and features sit-to-stand motorised desking, ergonomic and agile light set-up, stand tables, collaborative spaces, and even an app-based program that allows people to find each other across the campus. Alongside the work-based features are innovative wellness features in the form of an entire floor of the building dedicated to wellbeing. Level 14 is expressly designed to encourage respite, rejuvenation, rest and relaxation and includes: a universal multi-faith prayer room, parenting suites, a mindfulness area, a massage chair, fireplace, chill-out area, viewing platform with telescope, and a library that also features artificial intelligence in the form of Woodside’s cognitive assistant ‘Willow’ to help staff find the information they need across the company’s vast archive. This floor is a safe haven that operates 24 hours. It’s intentionally positioned halfway up the building on a lift transition floor to encourage movement and ease of access. Staff can also access, for a membership fee, a 25-metre heated lap pool, state-of-the-art gym, outdoor space for personal training, treatment rooms offering personal grooming, physiotherapist treatment and a dedicated Nurse Practitioner for medical support. The external community is not forgotten at Mia Yellagonga, with a family and community floor featuring a 300 seat cafe and 4,000sqm outdoor space, a family zone where children can do homework as their parents work, parenting suites and a games zone.