Category: Suspended Ceilings

Office Fitting in Melksham on a Mezzanine Floor

Post author By manager
Post date April 4, 2014

Client: Coombe Castle
Value: £62k

Cre8tive was asked to help carry out an office fitting project for Coombe Castle,who were moving from Corsham to Melksham. The work on this started 6 months ago, once the customer had in mind what they wanted to do, Cre8tive carried out a detailed plan of the building. This involved taking accurate measurements of all of the inside and outside space, in particular determining where all of the cabling went.

Cre8tive then designed the position of the new canteen and offices that were required on the existing mezzanine floor. The only problem was that the roof height was over 4 meters high, and Building Regulations says that you have to have 1 hour fire separation between offices and warehouse, so we devised a specification to meet this.

Other requirements for office fitting included spaces that need ventilation and heating, so Cre8tive had to extended the existing heating system, and fit a VAM unit within the ceiling void to take air from the outside to the inside.

The office fitting project included data cabling the existing offices as well as the new, providing all electrical, flooring, kitchen, decorations and suspended ceiling for the space.

Drawing and specification work.

We produced many drawings for each of the areas that we had to work on. This included work to the front offices, so they needed power and data, lighting, repairs to the suspended ceiling and new carpet. Other areas included:

Repairing some of the panels in the toilets.
Stripping out the existing kitchen and canteen, converting into a new Sales office.
Providing all of the plumbing requirements for the clean room area downstairs.
Building new offices and canteen on top of the mezzanine floor which had to meet building regulations.
New heating and ventilation.
New comms rack.
Painting much of the outside block walls white.
Building a couple of offices on the shop floor, again these had to be 1 hour fire rated.

Office fit out in Melksham — Upstairs space, needing offices

Factory move to Melksham — Detail of the new offices and canteen.

Office fit out in Melksham for the sales office — Detail of data cabling for the Sales Office

Existing building photos before work

Office refurbishment in Melksham — Front offices all walls and carpets need replacing

Office Kitchen in Melksham — Kitchen to strip out and convert to Sales Office

Office Canteen for Coombe Castle — Kitchen to strip out and convert to Sales Office

Factory move in Melksham — New offices to go here

Factory and Office fit out in Melksham for Coombe Castle — Big open factory floor

Construction photos

Factory move and office fit out in Melksham for Coombe Castle — Initial open space for the new upstairs offices

Office move melksham — VAM Ventilation unit in

Office fitting in Melksham — 1 hour fire rated wall

Completion photographs

office fit out for Coombe Castle in Melksham — All block walls painted

Project Management..

We have many ideas on how to make the best use of space, and we are seeing offices and talking to customers all of the time. Over the years we have seen many projects and often have to work to a budget. What we do is get the space working right first and then focus on the budget. In this case the budget was very tight so we ended up using a very cheap carpet which did not affect the design of the office, and just brought it into the manageable level for the customer. This project was leased over 3 years. Please contact us for further information about leasing and financing.

01380 73 88 44 or email us at [email protected]

Tags air conditioning, Coombe Castle, demountable partitioning, factory move melksham, factory move wiltshire, fit out melksham, partitioning, suspended ceiling

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Suspended Ceiling and Partition Reconfiguration work in Trowbridge

Post author By manager
Post date April 4, 2014

Client: Zircon Software
Value: £23k

Suspended Ceiling and Alteration work

We completed this replacement suspended ceiling project for Zircon Software in Trowbridge who moved to new premises. The existing ceiling was very tired, so we produced a lighting scheme along with some drawings to present to the customer with the costing. We supplied new suspended ceilings and lighting throughout and also took out a couple of walls for them. The work carried out here is typical of what we call dilapidation work, in that the work is needed for someone moving in to be able to occupy it in a reasonable state.

Tags air conditioning, CAT2 lighting, decoration, kitchen, partitioning, suspended ceiling, trowbridge, Zircon Software

All Project Categories Office Refurbishments Partitioning Storage Walls Suspended Ceilings Toilet Refurbishment

Head Office Design and Refurbishment Work

Post author By manager
Post date April 4, 2014

Client: De La Rue
Value: £200k

Office Refurbishment in Bath

The Administration Building looked very dated and did not represent the image De La Rue wanted to present to their customers. The building needed a thorough interior office refurbishment and design to create an environment in which staff feel empowered and involved and to portray the right professional image to visitors to reflect the high company values.

As the company uses wood pulp in the production of security papers, an earthy feel was required to the design. Due to the size of the project the work had to be carried out under the Construction Design and Management Regulations (CDM) which applies to any construction type work taking longer than 30 days or employing more than 5 people on site at any one time. Cre8tive was employed as a principle contractor, and the client employed a Heath and Safety Consultant to help run the project safely. The office refurbishment had a strict timetable of 8 weeks for completion.

Design Work

The design process took around 3 months. The initial proposal was made in competition with another company in which we were able to convince the customer that we had the skills to deliver, as well as come up with a good design. The first step is to measure everything and work out who does what where before moving onto the plan. We thought upstairs the best thing to do was to take out as much of the upstairs walls as possible to let as much natural light into the space. Unfortunately the walls upstairs held up the roof, so we had to employ a structural engineer to do some calculations and fit some steels to the beams. Downstairs also required opening out, and a beam had to be fitted downstairs.

Initial site photographs

re-route of electrics and wall to come out

Construction / demolition photographs

Reveals formed in main downstairs opening

Office Refurbishment Project?

If you need some office design as you are unsure what to do Cre8tive can help, regardless of the size of the project we like to be Cre8tive with what we do with the space. As well as all of the practical things such as running the project as Principle Contractor, dealing with Health and Safety and running the project well we add something extra and that is the Cre8tive effect.

Please give us a call on 01380 73 88 44

Tags CDM, De La Rue, demountable partitions, health and safety, office design, office furniture, office refurbishment, space planning

Client: Coombe Castle Value: £62k