Corporate Office and Fit-out Millwork Detailing Both have to ship on the same date.
Most of a fit-out package is straightforward casework drawn at volume under time pressure. A small part of it is a reception desk with a curved front and a stone top that nobody has worked out how to build. Both have to ship on the same date.
What this sector demands
- Volume without drift.
- Storage walls, tea points, meeting room units and workstation elements repeat across a floor plate. The detail has to be consistent, and consistency at volume comes from convention rather than from care.
- Feature items that are genuinely difficult.
- Reception desks, boardroom tables and feature walls are frequently the only items on the project that need modelling, and they are usually drawn last under the most pressure.
- Interfaces with other trades.
- Partitions, ceilings, raised floors and services all meet the millwork somewhere, and the tolerance responsibility at those junctions is rarely stated in the documents.
- Programme compression.
- Fit-out programmes shorten from both ends. Design finalises late, handover does not move, and the drawing window absorbs the difference.
Where packages fail here
- The feature item detailed last.
- Left until the routine casework is done, then drawn under pressure, then found to be unbuildable as designed.
- Junctions where nobody owns the tolerance.
- Millwork meeting a partition that was set out from a different datum, discovered at installation.
- Acoustic and service requirements added late.
- A requirement appearing in a revised specification after the carcass was already dimensioned.
- Capacity absorbed by revisions.
- The first issue was planned; three rounds of comments were not, and they land in the same week as the next project.
Sector requirements
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FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Our workload is unpredictable. How does that work?
Fit-out volume arriving in waves is the normal condition in this sector rather than an exception. Scope and capacity are agreed per engagement, and studio models exist for shops that need capacity on tap rather than per package.
Can you handle the feature items as well as the routine casework?
Yes, and they are different work. Curved and faceted items are modelled rather than sectioned, because a section through a curve does not describe the surface.
How are revisions handled on a compressed programme?
Revision rounds are scoped rather than absorbed. Comments requiring a decision are separated from comments requiring a drawing change, so the ones that need your input reach you quickly.
Who owns the tolerance where millwork meets a partition?
Whoever the drawing says. Where the documents do not state it, that is raised as a query before detailing rather than discovered at installation.
Send a fit-out package with its feature item
The difficult piece is usually where the schedule risk actually sits.
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Project enquiry
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