Mechanical, electrical and public health
The services decide whether the layout works.
Most office layouts are approved before anyone checks whether the building can cool, ventilate and power them at the proposed density. The correction arrives later, as a change to the design or a change to the date.
We assess the existing capacity first, then design and install the modifications, coordinate the interfaces and commission the result.
Scope
What the package covers.
Assessment first
- Cooling capacity against proposed occupancy density
- Fresh air provision per person
- Electrical capacity, distribution and spare ways
- Condition and remaining life of existing plant
- Controls strategy and building management interfaces
- Fire detection and sprinkler coverage against the new layout
Installation scope
- Ductwork modification and terminal units
- Fan coil and VRF alterations
- Lighting, emergency lighting and controls
- Small power, containment and floor boxes
- Sprinkler and detection alterations
- Public health alterations to tea points and WCs
Completion
- Pre-commissioning checks and balancing
- Witnessed testing and commissioning
- Controls demonstration to the facilities team
- As-installed drawings and asset data
- Operation and maintenance information
- Defects and seasonal commissioning where applicable
Control
Where the risk actually sits.
Capacity checked before the layout is approved
We run the density check first. It is a short exercise that prevents the most expensive late change in office fit-out.
Commissioning planned from the start
Commissioning duration and witness dates sit in the programme from day one, because a system that is installed but not commissioned is not a handover.
Coordinated with the ceiling, not after it
Terminals, detectors, sprinklers and lighting are coordinated on one ceiling plan before the ceiling is manufactured.
Before pricing
What we need to see.
Send what exists today. We will tell you what is still required rather than price around the gaps.
- Existing services drawings and any O&M information
- Proposed layout and occupancy density
- Landlord services strategy and metering arrangements
- Any equipment or technical rooms with special requirements
- Access and isolation constraints
- Programme and required completion date
Questions
What clients ask about this scope.
Related
Where to go next.
Discuss an office project
Tell us about the floorplate and the date.
Tell us the building, the area, the scope you expect to hold and the date the business needs to move. We will set out how the programme would run and what has to be resolved first.