Office Storage, Print and Mail Rooms
Storage, print, mail and cleaner's rooms hold equipment and trolleys rather than people. Their size, position, slab load, services and door widths are set by what goes in them.
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Design & Layout
Planning a floor: how much space people need, where rooms go, and what a layout decision costs to build.
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Building a First Aid Room in a Workplace
A first aid room is built for someone who cannot walk in. The door width, the route from the lift, the basin plumbing, the wall backing, the lighting and the sign all follow from that one job.
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Building a Boardroom: Size, AV, Acoustics and Ceiling
A boardroom is built around one table, one screen and one camera. Here is how we size the room, place the glazing, treat the walls and ceiling and get power, data and air to a full room.
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Prayer Rooms and Quiet Rooms in an Office Fitout
A prayer room or quiet room is a small sealed room that people use on the floor, in silence, often at set times of day. Location, wall build, glazing, plumbing nearby and lighting control decide whether it works.
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Training Room Layout: Sizes, Services and the Build
A training room is sized by the way it will be taught. Here is how classroom, U-shape, cabaret and boardroom layouts change the floor area, services and walls we build.
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Fitting Out a Half-Floor Office Tenancy
A half-floor tenancy shares its core, corridor and some services with the business next door. Here is how that shapes the layout, the finishes and the way the works run.
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Adding Phone Booths To An Existing Sydney Open-Plan Office: What The Build Touches Beyond The Pods
A Sydney tenant deciding to add phone booths or focus pods to an existing open-plan office often treats the pods themselves as the project. The pod arrives, it sits on the carpet, and the office has booths. That part is the small part. The bigger part of the work is everything the build has to […]
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Building a Wellness or Parents Room Into an Open-Plan Office Floor
A wellness or parents room is now a standard ask when a floor gets reworked, and it needs to be a genuinely private, quiet enclosure rather than a screened-off corner. Building one into open plan means a solid wall, a door that seals, and a spot on the floor that has power, light and a […]
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Building a Branded Feature Wall in an Office Reception: Framing, Curves and Finishes
When a rebrand reaches the office, the feature wall is usually where the new identity lands first. What the designer’s render shows as a sweep of colour with a recessed logo and a glow of light is, on site, a framing exercise: curved track, layered board, shadow-line beads and a lighting channel that has to […]
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Converting A Fixed-Desk Office To Hot Desking: What Changes In The Partitions And Ceilings
A fixed-desk office converted to hot desking is mostly a workplace change, not a building one. The team’s working pattern shifts from assigned seats to shared seats, the furniture order is the most expensive line item, and the policy work around bookings and storage is usually where the project sponsor spends most of their time. […]
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Reconfiguring a Closed-Office Floor Into Open Team Areas: What Comes Out and What Gets Rebuilt
Turning a floor of closed offices into open team areas is mostly a demolition and patch exercise before it is a build. Walls come out, the ceiling and floor are made good where they stood, and a smaller number of new partitions go back in to hold the rooms you still need. It is worth […]
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Partition Layout For A Real Estate Agency: Open Sales Floor And Private Negotiation Rooms
A real estate agency needs two things from the same floor: an open, visible sales team that feels busy and approachable, and rooms private enough to talk numbers, sign contracts and manage a tense negotiation. The partition layout is where that tension gets resolved. Get it right and the floor reads as energetic at the […]
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How return-to-office mandates are changing fitout requirements
Return-to-office mandates have changed the fitout brief in a way that hybrid stabilisation never quite did. Where hybrid forced tenants to think about underused space, lower attendance peaks, and which days of the week mattered, an RTO mandate puts the floor back on a five-day attendance footing and exposes the gaps in offices that were […]
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Workplace productivity and office design: which fitout choices actually move the needle
Almost every fitout proposal references productivity. Almost none of them say how the lift will be measured, by what mechanism, or what gets disproved if the result does not show up. That gap between the claim at proposal stage and the absence of any check at month six is where most fitout investment underperforms its […]
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How ergonomics shapes office fitout decisions
Ergonomics in the office fitout context covers far more than the chair-and-desk discussion most tenants associate with the word. It covers the dimensions of the workspace, the lighting, the sightlines, the acoustic environment, the climate, and the movement patterns the layout encourages or prevents. Most of these decisions get made at the fitout stage, locked […]
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How to design an office for neurodivergent employees
Designing an office for neurodivergent employees is rarely a separate fitout. It is a set of decisions sitting inside the normal fitout brief, weighted slightly differently from the default open-plan-and-collaboration template most offices end up with. The decisions that matter (sensory load on the open floor, retreat options when sensory load becomes too much, predictability […]
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Office design trends worth specifying in 2026
The office design trends actually worth specifying in 2026 are a smaller list than the trade press would suggest. Most of what gets promoted as the year’s design direction is a re-skinning of choices that have been around for several lease cycles, with new finishes and new vocabulary applied to ideas that were already in […]
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How to design an office kitchen and staff room
How to design an office kitchen and staff room is one of the briefs that gets settled by default in most fitouts and that delivers very different results depending on whether the design has thought about how the space actually gets used. The default outcome is a kitchen counter against one wall, a fridge, a […]
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How to design a client-facing office space
Designing a client-facing office space is one of the parts of a fitout where the brief carries more commercial weight than the floor area would suggest. The reception, the boardroom or main meeting room, the corridor a client walks through, and the visible part of the workplace beyond the boardroom all contribute to the impression […]
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How To Design An Office That Reflects Your Brand
How to design an office that reflects your brand is one of the briefs that arrives with strong intentions and weak detail. Tenants describe what they want their workplace to say (confident, considered, creative, progressive, trustworthy, modern, premium, grounded) without describing how the fitout decisions will say it. The result is design teams interpreting brand […]
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How To Design A Focused Work Zone In An Open Plan Office
Designing a focused work zone inside an open plan office is one of the harder layout problems in commercial fitout. The open plan exists for a reason (visibility, collaboration, density, lower cost per workstation), and the focus zone exists to solve a different problem (concentrated work that the open plan disables). Stacking the two on […]
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How company culture shapes office fitout decisions
Company culture shows up in office fitout decisions whether the brief captures it explicitly or not. Where leaders sit on the floor, how visible work is between teams, how formal the meeting rooms feel, how the kitchen is equipped, whether dedicated focus space exists, which finish language carries the room – each is a cultural […]
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How to incorporate wellness into an office fitout
Wellness in an office fitout sits in two layers, and the cleanest current briefs separate them deliberately. The visible layer is plant walls, statement timber, and branded wellness rooms – the elements that read as wellness on first walk-through. The substantive layer is air quality and ventilation, acoustic provision, circadian-aware lighting, ergonomic baselines, dedicated room […]
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Workplace Transformation: What It Means For The Fitout Brief
Workplace transformation as a fitout exercise describes the moment when a tenant’s office requirements have changed enough that the existing fitout no longer supports the operation cleanly. The triggers stack: hybrid attendance patterns that have settled differently than the original fitout assumed, organisational changes that restructured teams across the floor, technology shifts that changed how […]
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The rest of the library.
- Costs & Planning112 articlesWhat a fitout costs, what moves the number, and how a job runs from the first site visit to handover.
- Partitions & Ceilings173 articlesGlass and plasterboard partition systems, suspended and exposed ceilings, and how each one handles noise.
- Make Good & Defit85 articlesStripping out at the end of a lease, working around staff in an occupied space, and what make good obligations mean in practice.
- Fitouts by Sector105 articlesWhat changes when the tenant is a medical practice, a school, a law firm or a warehouse.
- Building & Technical46 articlesBase building condition, floor loading, slab heights and services routes. The constraints that decide what can be built.
- Trades & Services44 articlesElectrical, data, air conditioning, sprinklers, flooring and joinery, and the order they have to run in.
- Approvals & Compliance39 articlesLandlord consent, building management requirements and the paperwork a fitout needs before work starts on site.
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