Client background

Founded in the 1920’s, in the three-quarters of a century since its founding, El Paso has grown from a regional natural gas company to the largest natural gas transmission system in North America with over 6,000 employees. As the owners of North America’s largest natural gas pipeline system, the El Paso Corporation provides natural gas and related energy products in a safe, efficient, dependable manner.

Scope of works included

• Space planning & design consultancy
• Project management
• Partitioning & flooring
• Maple wood panelled offices
• Polished plaster feature walls
• Voice & data systems Furniture
• Specialist joinery
• Suspended ceilings
• Comms room

Points of note

Like its US counterpart, El Paso’s 25,000 sq.ft London trading floor is equipped with the most advanced risk management technology in the energy industry, supporting 113 energy traders. To cope, the Maris project team installed a 180 sq.ft traders data screen supported by a 50-inch plasma screen, as well as a networking of over 200 desk-mounted flat screens on the dealer desks.

Client comment

"For us, facing a project as large and as important to us as this, can be a frightening prospect, but Maris made the whole thing manageable. No matter how busy they were or what else they had on, they were always available to support us with even the smallest queries. There was a strong sense of us all being in it together, and that was invaluable."