Step 1: Preparing for Your Fitout A new office fitout is a major project and as you first get underway the scale of the thing can feel daunting. The best way to tackle it is to break it down into stages. Work through them one after the other and you’ll avoid costly mistakes, ensure you [...]
Step 2: Define Your Brief Okay, so you’ve conducted a space utilisation study, surveyed your staff and established organisational priorities. The next step on the path to your successful new office fitout is getting your brief right. Ad agencies have for years quoted David Ogilvy (of Ogilvy & Mather) who said, “Give me the freedom [...]
SB Projects supports Most of the Coast runners SB Projects takes its corporate social responsibility very seriously and actively supports projects for good both here and overseas. SB Projects was the main sponsor of last week’s Most of the Coast, an initiative of university students to raise funds for and awareness of Batyr (meaning Indian [...]
We usually associate ergonomics with desks, chairs, keyboards and other equipment that affect our posture – often alongside phrases like ‘lumbar support’ or ‘minimising muscle strain’. But an ergonomic office is about more than furniture; it also needs to consider the crucial factor of lighting. We take in a large proportion of our information [...]
Office plants can do more than improve how a workplace looks. In the right office design, plants can support employee wellbeing, reduce stress, improve the feel of the space and help create a more productive working environment. For businesses planning an office fitout or refurbishment, adding greenery is a simple way to make the workplace [...]
Hybrid work has settled in, budgets are under more scrutiny, and teams are choosing quality over quantity. The offices winning attention in 2025 are collaboration-first, health-centred, tech-ready and designed to adapt. Below are the big shifts the SB Projects team are seeing across Sydney and Australia, plus what they mean for your next office fit-out. [...]
If you’re leasing an office in Sydney, you’ll hear Cat A, Cat A+, and Cat B thrown around in almost every conversation. A Cat A (Category A) fitout is the base-level landlord finish that makes a tenancy safe, compliant, and “services-ready”, but still a blank canvas for your workplace design. One thing to keep in [...]
If you are planning a new office, refurbishing an existing space, or taking on a commercial lease, you may come across the term Cat B fitout. It is a common phrase in commercial construction, but for many tenants, it is not immediately obvious what it includes or how it differs from other fitout stages. A [...]
What are the new education and training BCA class 9b building certificate compliance requirements? As an education provider, it’s essential to stay compliant with the latest regulations, including the requirement for premises to meet specific building standards. Under the Building Code of Australia (BCA), all education and training institutions must now secure a Class 9b [...]
There’s a new construction material on the rise, and fervent supporters of this material are touting it as the beginning of a construction revolution that’ll utterly transform environmentally sustainable architectural design. Mass timber isn’t the typical wood you’d find at a standard timber or hardware store. To handle heavy loads, mass timber is constructed from [...]
