Commercial fit-out decisions
Plan the different removal depths across connected office floors
- Interior scope
- Renovation planning
A multi-floor office project may repeat a design concept without repeating the demolition. One floor may retain meeting rooms, another may lose most partitions, and a third may contain the connection between them. Describe those differences before treating the project as several copies of one suite.
CoreCut provides office strip-outs within an assessed renovation scope. The project team resolves the structure, building services and shared routes that connect the floors; ordinary interior removal does not take ownership of those systems.
Compare the physical starting points
Use one plan per floor with the same retained/removal legend. Mark existing partitions, ceilings, fixed joinery and finish layers. Note differences in former fit-outs rather than hiding them inside a single typical-floor description.
An illustrative three-floor comparison might look like this:
| Floor | Interior change | Connection that needs separate direction |
|---|---|---|
| Lower office | Retain rooms; remove selected floor covering | Shared entry and loading route |
| Middle office | Remove obsolete partitions and ceiling areas | Services continuing to other floors |
| Upper office | Change reception beside a retained stair | Stair, landing and adjoining structure |
Scroll across the table to see all columns.
The table is a planning example, not a completed project or a proposed work sequence. Each connection remains outside ordinary finish removal unless the reviewed scope explicitly includes it.
Distinguish a repeated suite from a connected renovation
Several independent rooms can share a finish specification without sharing a demolition dependency. A stair, riser or opening between floors creates a different coordination problem. Show those interfaces in a section or annotated plan, with the responsible design contact named.
If a riser renewal needs concrete openings, use the riser guide. If the existing concrete stair itself leaves, the stair-removal guide develops that assembly. Neither task should be implied by an office strip-out label.
Compare consolidated and separately released areas
A GC may assess all floors together but release them at different times. The useful question is whether each released area has a defined boundary, available route and receiving contractor. A partial release should identify what remains unavailable and whether it affects work elsewhere.
The office phase-handover guide records that release. Here, the first job is defining the physical differences that the record must preserve. A repeatable form cannot compensate for a missing removal boundary.
Account for the shared building route
Include elevator and loading arrangements, management restrictions and the retained circulation between floors. Do not infer simultaneous crew capacity or continued occupancy from the number of floors. Those arrangements follow the actual assessment and programme.
Request an office-removal assessment with floor-by-floor plans, retained connections and the intended receiving condition. Identify which floors are representative and which have exceptions so the first discussion addresses the full variation.