Step 5: Decide Your Look and Feel With this last step you’re on the homeward stretch with your office fitout. And the good news is – this is the fun stuff! A number of factors will determine the look and feel of your new office or premises. Key among them are: • Organisation character and [...]
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 [...]
Step 4: Plan your space With your budget in place it’s time to start getting into the detail. The next stage in your successful office fitout is planning your space. Beginning with a blank floor plan (one that includes all load-bearing walls, pillars, windows, security doors, permanent fixtures etc) start laying out what – and [...]
Step 3: Know Your Budget Once you’ve laid the groundwork for your new office fitout and have a clear, tight brief in place you’re ready to move to step three – Know Your Budget. This is where you bring together your organisation’s priorities for the new space, and you’re particular specifications to set the project [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Office Fitouts – Where to start? So you’ve just learned that it’s you who has to take charge of the new office fitout. And you have to get it done on top of all your usual commitments, with as little disruption as possible for everyone in the company. If you’ve never tackled one before a [...]
The #1 Secret to a Successful Office Fitout: Are you and your contractor singing from the same song sheet? Does your office fitout specialist truly get the spirit of the job? At the risk of sounding like I’ve gone all New Age let me tell you I firmly believe that when it comes down to [...]
Making your Office Lease Make-Good a Stress-Free Experience If there is one thing that too many people find almost as stressful as fitting out a new office it’s the process at the completely opposite end of the spectrum - the make-good at the end of a lease. Every property is different, every landlord is different, [...]
