Take the plunge and join Olivia’s Choir!

Are you Olivia’s resident and ready to stare? Dare and let the world hear your talent! Now you have a unique opportunity to do so. Autumn live auditions for the Olivia Business Centre Choir are starting!

  • WHEN? On Wednesday, September 29
  • START from 17.00
  • PLACE: Olivia Sky Club (Olivia Tower building, 12th floor)
  • INTERROGATOR: conductor Wiktoria Batarowska

How do I prepare for an audition?

  • You don’t need to know the notes, we’ll teach you everything.
  • You don’t need to prepare too much, we will check your capabilities.
  • You don’t have to play any instrument, the instrument of speech will do! All you have to do is sign up for auditions by writing to olivia@oliviacentre.com
  • You will be offered a specific time. Book approx. 15 minutes.

Get to know Olivia’s Choir better

  • We meet every week on Tuesdays.
  • We sing, we hum, we train our voice emission, we practice diligently and we laugh a lot:)
  • We are not bored, we are together, we share a common passion.

If you have music in your soul, you sing at any time of the day or night, you shuffle your feet to stand on the music stage, don’t hesitate – sign up for auditions! We look forward to seeing you!

Listen and drop by for an audition:)

Olivia Business Centre’s musical adventure with choral music began in 2018, when a casting for a conductor was announced at Bayer. It was won by conductor Wiktoria Batarowska. The choir spread its wings as a joint initiative of Bayer and Olivia. It has also expanded to our entire business center. The team consists of several dozen people, among others. from AirHelp, Pomerania Development Agency, Alexander Mann Solutions, Avaus, Bayer, Energa, Nordea, Olivia Business Centre, O4 Coworking, PwC, Ricoh, Sii, Staples, PWC. The repertoire of the Olivia Business Centre Choir includes mainly popular music as well as classical music, as well as carols and pastorals from different parts of the world.

Facebook and Telus International in Olivia’s new offices!

The social media giant has opened its operations center in Gdansk. In the first period, 80 jobs were created, and by 2023 the team will expand to 500 people. The branch will support companies from the SME sector in their promotional campaigns on Facebook and related applications.

The newly opened operations centre will advise small and medium-sized enterprises on their marketing, recruitment and sales campaigns. Initially, it will provide support in Polish and Russian, and eventually also in Czech, Hungarian, Romanian, German and English. Support will cover all communication and social media platforms managed by Facebook: Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger. The local office will be managed by Telus International.

We are glad that Telus International is growing in Olivia – it has been our resident for many years and we are grateful for the trust and further expansions – says Maciej Kotarski, Director of the Commercialization Department at Olivia Centre. – We are even more pleased with the success of our resident – the fact that one of the most well-known consumer brands in the world has officially announced cooperation with Telus, and this cooperation is aimed at business development, i.e. small and medium-sized companies and advertisers. Olivia is the most prestigious business destination in Northern Poland, and due to its scale and growth opportunities, it is most often chosen by the world’s largest companies as the location of their operational centers. It is with great satisfaction that we receive the fact that another resident of Olivia will be providing services to the entire region of Central and Eastern Europe from here. We are developing our center with the idea of providing virtually any scale of expansion for such residents, and this example perfectly illustrates this.

The new agreement is another large lease contract that has been finalized in Olivia in recent months. Last year, a record-breaking lease agreement amounted to 15,000 m2 of office space. It was the largest lease contract in Pomerania in 2020, and at the same time the second largest in the 10-year history of this office project in Oliwa.

Olivia is gradually becoming one of the largest IT hubs in Poland. In addition to Facebook, such giants as Amazon, Sii, Epam, InfoShare, InfoShare Academy have opened their offices in its spaces so far, and Nordea’s IT center also has its offices there. It is in Olivia Centre that Amazon is developing the Ivona speech synthesizer, created in the Tri-City, which is used to intelligently read content or recognize spoken messages. It is also here that InfoShare, the organizer of the largest IT conferences in Central and Eastern Europe, has its offices, and their InfoShare Academy trains the next generation of programmers.

Healthy Lifestyle Day at Work Cafe Santander

We invite you on November 16 to Work Cafe Santander (Olivia Gate B). There you will be able to listen to interesting lectures and take part in individual consultations with specialists in: personal, medical, running, cycling, swimming, triathlon training, as well as dietetics and sports rehabilitation. 

November 16 | start 10:15

Here is the schedule of lectures:

10:15 – sports dietetics

11:15 – senior training

12:15 – personal and medical training

13:15 – training of children and teenagers

14:15 – Preventive rehabilitation in sport

15:15 – triathlon training

WELCOME!

Take care of yourself and your loved ones. Mammobus in Olivia!

We invite women aged 50 to 69 for a free mammogarfia (breast X-ray) in digital technology, as part of the Population-Based Breast Cancer Early Detection Program.

The examination does not require a doctor’s referral, only the PESEL number is verified during registration and it is checked in the nationwide IT System for Monitoring Prevention whether the test is eligible. Doctors recommend that you take your previous results with you to the appointment.

To sign up for a mammography, please register by phone at: 58 666 2 444 or using theform on the website: mammo.pl.

The mammobus will stand in the parking lot in front of Olivia Business Centre on November 12, 2021, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., allowing for the admission of 50 patients. Study hours will be individually allocated during enrollment.

Remember, you can also register a loved one for an X-ray – all you need to do is provide them with their PESEL number. Details of the action can be found at: mammo.pl.

Healthy Lifestyle Day at Work Cafe Santander

We invite you on November 16 to Work Cafe Santander (Olivia Gate B). There you will be able to listen to interesting lectures and take part in individual consultations with specialists in: personal, medical, running, cycling, swimming, triathlon training, as well as dietetics and sports rehabilitation.

November 16 | start 10:15

Here is the schedule of lectures:

10:15 – sports dietetics

11:15 – senior training

12:15 – personal and medical training

13:15 – training of children and teenagers

14:15 – Preventive rehabilitation in sport

15:15 – triathlon training

WELCOME!

Olivia Business Centre is the laureate of the 20. edition of the Polish CIJ Awards!

During the 20. The final of the CIJ Awards Poland competition, which took place on November 4 at the Raffles Europejski Hotel in Warsaw, prestigious real estate industry awards were handed out. Olivia Business Centre won in the Best Interior Design / Exterior Design category. The jury of the competition appreciated the design of Olivia Garden – a year-round exotic garden, implementing the concept of biophilic design. Honorable mention in the competition, entered from 20. years in the calendar of the most important events in the real estate industry, it is an honor for us. The space of Olivia Garden complemented the concept of a modern business centre, where we constantly follow the needs of the Residents, while remaining open to the city and its inhabitants – everyone can feel invited here.

“We are glad that our involvement in the work on Olivia Garden’s project has been noticed and appreciated by the competition jury ,” says Artur Kuczyński from Design Anatomy, the design office cooperating in the construction of the facility.

The Malinowski Design Urban & Landscape studio is responsible for the design of the garden, while the design of the building was prepared by architects from the BJK Architekci studio.

Olivia Business Centre, as the winner of the award in the CIJ Awards Poland competition, was nominated for the Best of the Best HOF Awards 2022, which means that it is among the winning representatives of the most important real estate companies from 10 countries of Central and South-Eastern Europe.


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We recommend December trips

With Olivia and the 3miasto Recreation Group in December you will certainly not be bored. Admittedly, the winter scenery is not so full of colors, but for the gray-brown and gloomy period (unless white snow falls) we also have the right recipe. We will take you to evergreen coastal forests, Tuchola Forest and landscape parks… Here are our suggestions.

THURSDAY WALKS AFTER WORK

02.12 Through the hills towering over the Strzyża stream
09.12 Hike to the Valley of the Elves and meet Santa Claus (registration required)
16.12 Gdansk with a guide: secrets of the Old Town (registration required)
23.12 Natural monuments of the upper terraces of Gdańsk
30.12 With a backpack full of stones, through the mountains… Gdansk (a trip as part of the post-Christmas calorie burning)

EXCURSIONS ON WEEKENDS

04.12 Bicycle trip among the dunes of the Seaside Forests
05.12 A family hike through the Lubiatowskie Dunes
12.12 Hiking Bory Tucholskie National Park

Co-create. Co-celebrate. Dog Show in Olivia Star

On 25 January, an exhibition presenting the idea of Kaunas as the European Capital of Culture 2022 was set up in the lobby of Olivia Star. The exhibition is an invitation to participate in the year-round, largest festival of joint creativity in the history of the city. The opening ceremony was conducted by the Ambassador of Lithuania to Poland, Eduardas Borisovas.




Among the invited guests were Rasa Rimickaitė, Attaché for Lithuanian Culture in Poland, Barbara Frydrych, Director of the Office of the Mayor of Gdańsk for Cultural Affairs. Bogdan Borusewicz, Marshal of the Senate, Magdalena Witkowska, Dean of the District Council of Legal Advisers in Gdańsk, Bożena Kisiel, President of the Society of Friends of Vilnius and the Vilnius Land, Celina Zboromirska-Bieńczak, Deputy General and Artistic Director of the Miniatura Municipal Theatre, Tomasz Snarski, PhD, Artistic Director of the Vilnius Festival in Gdańsk and Andrzej Stelmasiewicz, Councillor of the City of Gdańsk. On behalf of the Olivia Centre, the guests were welcomed by Bogusław Wieczore, Plenipotentiary of the Management Board for PR.

Kaunas has prepared more than a thousand cultural events, including more than 40 festivals, 60 exhibitions, 250 theatrical performances and the same number of concerts. On behalf of the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania and the Olivia Centre, we cordially invite you to see the exhibition, learn about the planned initiatives and discover a unique place on the map of Europe and the world, which is only a few hours away. See you in Kaunas!

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Excellent Olivia Star!

Olivia Centre wins more laurels. 2021 was marked by awards related to safety, well-being of residents, tourist offer and design, and at the beginning of 2022 the project received further awards.

Olivia Star’s rating at the Excellent level has been awarded to the greatest extent for Energy-efficient solutions available in the building (lighting zoning, use of LED lighting), availability of alternative forms of transport (parking spaces for bicycles and scooters with charging stations, availability of public transport – Fast Urban Railway, Pomeranian Metropolitan Railway, tram and bus network) and highly efficient technologies for the management of water resources. As-built certification means that all initial assumptions specified in the project are met.

When analysing the building, the assessors took into account the fact that Olivia Star is one of the most modern high-rise buildings in Poland with an all-glass triple-glazed façade. The use of a triple-glazing unit and good insulation of the profiles allowed to achieve very high thermal insulation parameters. The building is also equipped with tilting elements of the façade, which create a natural ventilation system serving all office spaces with fresh air. The above factors contribute to the high energy efficiency of the building. At the same time, it is the first high-rise building in Poland with a natural ventilation system.

The heating system with a heat pump installed in the building, using geothermal sources from as much as 95 meters below the lowest floor of the building, was also highly rated. In this way, Olivia Star draws heat from the aquifer in the Paleogene sediments (Oligocene Tertiary). Importantly, this system does not produce harmful gases and is one of the most environmentally friendly installations.

High efficiency, low operating costs, long service life, environmental protection through the use of renewable (alternative) heat sources are the most important conclusions from Olivia Star’s assessment.

The BREEAM as-built certificate at the Excellent level is yet another distinction that has been awarded to Olivia Centre in recent months. The most important of these was the Well Health Safety Rating certification , carried out by 600 scientists from all over the world, cooperating with the International Well Building Institute in New York. 9 months ago, the institute gave Olivia the maximum score of 25 points out of a possible 25, in 22 basic and 3 additional categories related to innovations in the field of employee safety and well-being. No other facility in the world has received such high marks so far, which has allowed Olivia to be called the safest business center in the world. Such a result was only possible thanks to the commitment to the implementation of state-of-the-art safety solutions: the air handling units were equipped with air ionizers that continuously purify the air in the buildings from fungi, viruses and allergens. Active titanium coatings have been used in the common areas, creating surfaces free of pathogenic microorganisms, and in addition, the level of air filtration has been raised to the highest available level (from G4 to F7 class). More…

This summer, during the jubilee 20. In the edition of CIJ Awards Poland , the jury consisting of experts in the field of ecology, commercial real estate, design and property management awarded the new project in Olivia Centre – Olivia Garden, the award in the Best Interior/Exterior Design category. Olivia Garden is an exotic garden, covering 8720 m³ of green space, filled with 3000 plants. Plants up to 11 meters tall represent as many as 150 species and come from 4 continents. Importantly, Olivia Garden is a place that was inspired by the Residents. In 2018, during a workshop, employees of companies from Olivia indicated that it is such a natural, green oasis that they need to be able to fully regenerate their strength, regain energy and stimulate creativity during breaks at work. 2021 was the date of finalization of these plans and in May this year the first guests arrived at this unique space.

Olivia Garden is located in Olivia Star, which on its top floors also offers other public attractions contributing to the recognition of not only the environment related to commercial real estate. In the autumn of 2021, Olivia Star’s managers received the award of the Marshal of the Pomeranian Voivodeship for the prepared tourist offer, which shows how multidimensional this project is and how modern thinking about office projects it implements.

We are aware of how many potential tenants of space in Olivia take into account the urban, multidimensional character of our centre, which offers their employees much more than just a space to work – says Konrad Danecki from Olivia Centre. Nowadays, practically everyone verifies environmental responsibility, ecology, wellbeing and additional services that await them in their new workplace. Well Health Safety Rating, BREEAM certification and other awards allow us to objectify and confirm to our business partners the level of our commitment to providing them with the highest level of service in the world. Such high marks are also a great satisfaction for us, confirming that what we do on a daily basis is recognized by independent experts with extensive knowledge and an appropriate perspective on an international scale.

2021 – the year of the Olivian Community. Look how much we’ve done together!

2021 was a year of many challenges. For us, it was first and foremost the year of the Olivian Community. We have tried to create plenty of opportunities for the employees of our center to develop here personally and professionally, share their passions and interests, take care of mutual relationships, health and well-being. It was our Residents, their comfort and safety that we focused on.

 

We are very happy that so many companies have trusted us in this demanding and difficult time. Existing Residents are developing in Olivia and planning their future here. New companies have also joined the group of our tenants. Thank you and welcome you to Olivia Centre!

 

Download our report and see how much we have achieved together.