3.28 Changes in technology and working patterns can also create opportunities for better estate management. For example, following a significant IT upgrade HM Treasury is currently working with its PFI provider to increase the occupational density of its building at 1 Horse Guards Road, and by reducing the space occupied by HM Treasury, create a significant amount of empty space that can be used by another public sector occupant, freeing up other space in Whitehall.
3.29 Opportunities to increase occupational density of specialist assets (such as schools and hospitals) are likely to be more limited than for office accommodation properties. Nonetheless, there may also be options to change the use of relatively generic space, such as administration areas. As another example, a schools project modified some spare classrooms to use as office space with only minor modification to door locks. Asset utilisation has formed an important part of the MOD's review process and this will continue to be examined across MOD's infrastructure PFI portfolio.