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An office fit-out is a business decision with a lease attached. The programme is measured against the date the current lease ends, and the cost is measured against a budget that was approved before anyone drew a layout.
Most commercial fit-outs run against two fixed points the contractor did not set: a lease expiry and a board-approved budget. The job of the contractor is to make both survive contact with the building.
Cat A is the landlord's finish — raised floors, suspended ceilings, basic lighting and HVAC — which makes a space lettable but not occupiable. Cat B is the tenant's own fit-out: layout, partitions, joinery, branding, meeting rooms and everything the occupier actually uses.
It depends on area, the starting condition and how long approvals take. The programme is set by three things: authority approval, the joinery lead time and the MEP coordination. We publish the programme in the contract and report against it, rather than quoting a market average.
Density of partitioning, the specification of the joinery and finishes, and how much of the MEP has to be reworked rather than reused. A Cat A space with usable services costs materially less to fit out than a shell, and layout changes after approval cost more than any material choice.
Yes. Most buildings require the landlord's NOC and drawing approval before any authority submission can be made. We prepare the submission package, coordinate the landlord's comments and carry the approvals through to permit.
Yes, in phases. Floors or zones are handed over one at a time behind hoardings, with services kept live to the occupied areas and noisy work programmed out of hours. It takes longer than an empty floor, and the programme should say so from the start.
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