Insurance Office Fit-Out, Richmond Hill — 4 Weeks

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What Made This One Hard

Full-height glass private offices look simple and are not. The framing has to be dead straight and the openings dead square, because glass has no tolerance for the small deviations drywall forgives, and the glazing is ordered from those dimensions weeks before it arrives.

Four weeks for 2,000 sf also meant HVAC distribution, power and data had to be laid out against a furniture plan that was still being finalized. We froze the layout early so the electrical rough-in would not have to be chased through finished walls later.

Project type

Full interior fit-out of an insurance office in a multi-tenant Richmond Hill office building.

Location

Richmond Hill, Ontario.

Approximate scope

Roughly 2,000 square feet delivered in four weeks — reception, a corridor of glazed private offices, and an open work area. Turnkey cost worked out to approximately $150,000.

Reception of a completed 2,000 sf insurance office fit-out in Richmond Hill — marble-look porcelain feature panel in a walnut surround with custom white cabinetry — Reception — large-format marble-look porcelain slab set in a solid walnut surround, with custom white base cabinetry and a walnut counter.

Scope of work

Full-height black-framed glass partitions and glass office doors along the private-office corridor, including frameless glass sliders
Reception feature panel in large-format marble-look porcelain slab with a solid walnut surround
Custom millwork — white base cabinetry with walnut counter at reception, plus a full-height custom storage wall
Timber-plank feature wall in a corner private office
Luxury vinyl plank flooring throughout
New pot lights and LED panel lighting; existing T-bar ceiling grid patched and re-tiled around the new partition lines
Painting, roller shades, baseboard and final finishing

Private office with timber-plank feature wall and frameless glass sliding door in a Richmond Hill office fit-out — Corner private office — timber-plank feature wall behind a frameless glass slider, with roller shades on the window wall.

Custom full-height storage wall with walnut trim in a completed 2,000 sf Richmond Hill office fit-out — Custom storage wall — full-height cabinetry with walnut trim, built to the unit's dimensions rather than dropped in as stock casework.

During construction

Both trades below ran inside the same four-week window. Glass partition layout was set off the finished floor line, so flooring went down before the glass went up.

Luxury vinyl plank flooring installation in progress during a 2,000 sf office fit-out in Richmond Hill — Luxury vinyl plank going down across the open area and corridor.

Buildup Contracting crew installing a full-height glass office partition during a Richmond Hill office fit-out — Setting and sealing a full-height glass partition. Jambs masked, glass protected, ceiling grid cut back to the new partition line.

What an office fit-out costs relative to a restaurant

At about $150,000, a professional office fit-out at this finish level lands well below restaurant build-out rates. A full-service restaurant of the same size typically costs two to four times as much, because the cost sits in kitchen ventilation, make-up air, gas, grease interceptors, fire suppression and health-department approvals. An office tenant is paying for glass, millwork, lighting and finishes — not for that mechanical complexity. It is the same delivery system and the same trades; the scope is simply lighter.

The result

What the Client Got

A 2,000 sf insurance office delivered in four weeks for about $150K — full-height glass private offices, ceilings and lighting, HVAC distribution balanced to the new plan, and reception and kitchenette millwork.

The suite was handed over with building sign-offs complete, the HVAC balanced to the fitted layout rather than the old one, and a one-year workmanship warranty.

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Insurance Office Fit-Out — Richmond Hill