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04.3 · FIT-OUT & REFURBISHMENT

Capability 03 · Fit-out & refurbishment

Fit-out & refurbishment.

Residential and commercial interiors, built with lower-emission finishes and energy-efficient lighting where the client's brief supports it.

Indoor air quality treated as a construction decision, backed by material choice.

04.3.0 · The package

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Fig. 03 — Partition and ceiling junctionA detail through a full-height metal stud partition where it meets a suspended ceiling. The partition runs from the soffit down to the finished floor level, its cavity filled with insulation and its faces boarded twice with staggered joints. The suspended ceiling grid runs in from both sides on hangers shown dashed, broken around the partition, with a recessed luminaire set into the grid to the right. A skirting is returned at the base of each partition face, and the floor build-up is hatched below the finished floor level. A standing note records that the finish schedule, VOC limits and fire rating follow the approved specification. Graphite study, not to scale.METAL STUD PARTITIONSUSPENDED CEILING GRIDLUMINAIREFINISHED FLOOR LEVELSKIRTINGBOARD + BOARD, STAGGERED JOINTSFINISH SCHEDULE, VOC LIMITS AND FIRE RATING PER APPROVED SPECIFICATION

What the package covers.

  1. 01

    Strip-out & making good

    What comes out is surveyed before it comes out: services in the ceiling void, substrate condition, and what the base build actually left behind. Segregation and removal are scoped as work, not discovered in the last week.

  2. 02

    Partitions & ceilings

    Line, plumb and the junction between partition head and ceiling grid set out once. That junction is where acoustic and fire performance is either achieved or quietly lost.

  3. 03

    Finishes & joinery

    Finishes weighed on duty, durability and emissions before selection. The approved schedule carries through to the record, so the next refurbishment knows what it is removing.

  4. 04

    Builders’ works to MEP

    Openings, penetrations, plinths and access panels coordinated with the services contractor ahead of first fix. The cheapest hole is the one cut before the wall is closed.

04.3.1 · The scope

Interiors, with an engineer's bill of materials.

Finishes, fittings and lighting are weighed the same way as structural materials: performance, health, origin, durability and environmental information reviewed before anything is chosen — credible suppliers and traceability over marketing claims.

Reviewed before anything is chosen

Performance
A finish is assessed against its duty the way a structural material is, not against a mood board.
Health
Lower-emission finishes, adhesives and coatings, specified where the brief supports it.
Origin
Credible suppliers and traceability, in preference to marketing claims.
Durability
Whole-life value weighed before specification, not appearance at handover.
Environmental information
Reviewed alongside the rest, and kept with the material into the handover record.

04.3.1A · WORKING IN AN OCCUPIED BUILDING

People are still working on the floor below.

Most refurbishment happens in a building that never emptied. That changes the job more than the specification does. Access is out of hours or through a goods lift on a booking sheet, deliveries land in somebody else’s loading bay, and every noisy operation has a window it is permitted to happen in. The phasing plan is written with the building manager, not presented to them.

Dust and noise are controlled at source. Screening on the strip-out, cutting done wet or captured, hoardings sealed rather than propped, and the shared corridor left the way the tenant found it every single evening. It is unglamorous, and it is most of what separates a tolerable refurbishment from a complaint.

Indoor air quality is treated as a specification decision, because that is the only place it can honestly be treated. Where the brief supports it, lower-emission adhesives, sealants, paints and boards are specified, the product documentation is collected as the materials arrive, and a schedule of what actually went in is handed over at the end. No air-quality outcome is claimed for the finished space: the air in a working building depends on how it is ventilated and used for years after we have gone.

04.3.2 · The whole-life decision

The decision inside this scope.

The air a space holds is decided during construction — in the finishes specified, the adhesives and coatings approved, and the records kept. Where the brief supports it, lower-emission finishes and energy-efficient lighting are specified, and the documentation follows the material into the handover record.

  • Specify Better
  • Source Better
  • Protect People and Place

04.3.3 · Delivery & record

Delivered through the four steps. Closed out on the record.

Quality checkpoints and snagging logged and closed out digitally; material records, product certificates and low-VOC documentation (where specified) assembled into the Green Project Pack.

Scope a fit-out package.

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