Office Refurbishment Sheffield.
Refurbishment, design and fit out for Sheffield workplaces.
We are twenty minutes up the M18 from Sheffield, based at 1 Water Vole Way in Doncaster, and we have designed and delivered work in the city: an office redesign for Aspire PC, the brand and interior for New Shoots Coffee Shop, and the design and fit out of Burrito Picante. Close enough to be on site the same morning, and far enough into South Yorkshire to know what a Sheffield building is likely to throw at you.
One team plans the space, draws it, builds it and furnishes it. Every trade is contracted by us and you get one invoice, so the firm you hired is the firm answerable for the work on site. No being handed between a designer, a contractor and a furniture supplier, and no gap in the middle where the detail goes missing.
Refurbishment, fit out or a refresh, and why the word matters.
The three get used as though they mean the same thing and they do not, which is why quotes for the same building come back so far apart. A refresh is decoration, flooring and a general lift, and the space keeps its shape. A refurbishment reworks the space you already have: walls move, rooms change use, services get altered and the layout stops fighting the way you work. A fit out is a shell or a stripped floor taken to a finished office, and it is the biggest of the three because everything in it is new.
Most Sheffield enquiries that arrive asking for a fit out turn out to be refurbishments, because the building is already theirs and the problem is the layout rather than the fabric. Working out which one you are actually buying is the first thing worth doing, and it changes the budget more than any material choice you will make afterwards.
Four things a Sheffield office project needs.
We do all four rather than handing you between three firms, which is why the finished room looks like the visual you signed off.
We measure what you have, ask how your teams actually use it, and plan the space around that rather than around the shape of the floor plate. Desk counts, meeting rooms, quiet space, storage and how people move between them. Get this wrong and no amount of finish fixes it.
Measured survey · Space planning · Desk and headcount planning · Options
Photorealistic visuals so you can walk the office before anybody builds it, then the technical drawings and the specification behind them. Colour, finishes, joinery, lighting and branding, decided on screen where changing your mind is free.
Concept design · 3D visualisation · Technical drawings · Specification
The works themselves. Strip out, partitions and glazing, flooring, ceilings, lighting, power and data, decoration and joinery. We contract the trades and manage the programme, so the people on site answer to us and we answer to you.
Strip out · Partitions and glazing · M&E coordination · Joinery and decoration
Desks, seating, meeting rooms, storage and breakout, specified against the drawings rather than picked from a brochure afterwards. With glazing, furniture is the biggest swing item on most office budgets.
Furniture specification · Supply · Delivery and install · Aftercare
The drawings and the build are the same team.
The gap between what was drawn and what got built is where the money goes on a refurbishment, and on most projects it is also where the blame goes: the designer says it was specified, the contractor says it was not on the drawing, and you are in the middle paying for the argument. Because we design it, build it and furnish it, there is nobody to hand that gap to.
Three things worth settling before anything is drawn.
What a Sheffield office refurbishment costs depends on the size of the floor and how much of it changes, so any single figure on a page is a guess at your building. Our estimator asks a few questions about yours and gives you a working range in about two minutes, before you speak to anyone. The swing items are glazing, partitions and furniture, in that order, and they are the ones worth deciding on early.
If you rent, you will normally need a licence to alter before work starts, and your lease will say what happens to the alterations when the term ends. Get the lease in front of us early. It changes what is worth spending, it occasionally changes whether the job is worth doing at all, and it is far cheaper to find out now than after the drawings.
The question everybody asks second.
It depends on how much of the floor is changing, and nobody can honestly give you a date before they have stood in your building. What we will do is put a programme in writing after the survey and tell you which parts of it can run in phases around your team and which need the space empty. That single decision moves both the programme and the price more than most material choices, so it belongs in the first conversation rather than the fourth.
Office refurbishment in Sheffield: your questions.
Do you actually work in Sheffield, or just say you do?+
We work in Sheffield and we publish the projects. Aspire PC is an office redesign in the city, New Shoots Coffee Shop is a brand and interior on the edge of it, and Burrito Picante is a design and fit out. We are based twenty minutes away in Doncaster rather than in Sheffield itself, which we would rather say than dress up with a serviced address.
What is the difference between a refurbishment and a fit out?+
A refurbishment reworks the space you already have: the layout changes, walls move and services get altered, but the shell stays. A fit out takes a shell or a stripped floor to a finished office and is the bigger of the two. Most enquiries that arrive asking for a fit out turn out to be refurbishments, and knowing which one you are buying changes the budget more than any material choice afterwards.
What will my project cost?+
It depends on the size of the space and how much of it you are changing, so any single figure on a page would be a guess at your building. Our estimator asks a few questions about yours and gives you a working range in about two minutes, with no email required.
Can we stay in the building while you work?+
Often, and it is the first thing worth raising when we survey. Whether the work runs in phases around your team or in one go with the space empty changes the programme and the price, so it is a decision to make early rather than one to discover halfway through.
What do I need to sort out with my landlord?+
If you rent, you will normally need a licence to alter before work starts, and your lease will say what happens to the alterations at the end of the term. Get the lease in front of us early, because it changes what is worth doing as well as what is allowed.
Do you cover Rotherham, Chesterfield and the rest of South Yorkshire?+
Yes. We are a South Yorkshire business and most of our work is inside it: sixteen of our twenty seven published projects are in Doncaster and three are in Sheffield. Rotherham, Barnsley and Chesterfield are all closer to us than a lot of the country, and we have delivered in Chesterfield.
Sheffield offices come in every shape, and none of them is a template.
Converted brick around Kelham Island, city centre floors off Division Street, business park units at the Advanced Manufacturing Park and out towards Meadowhall. A Victorian mill floor and a 2015 shell need different answers to the same brief, which is why we start with a survey of the building you have rather than a layout that worked somewhere else.
Planning an office refurbishment in Sheffield?
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