Design and build of new office space for a leading investment management company

The project had a clear timeline of three months for pre-construction work and four months for construction, and a fixed budget. The design phase took longer than expected, due to additional requests, but the overall deadline was met through detailed planning. This included construction programming, programme advice, procurement, technical due diligence, and third-party and local authority liaison and permitting.  

Agilité worked with the client’s architects during the design phase in order to manage any design conflict and provide value engineering – due to the fixed budget. During the construction stage, we had weekly reports with the client and the architect. Challenges, included materials with long-lead times, including partitions and bespoke joinery. These items were ordered as soon as we started on site, to avoid delays.  

To stay on schedule, we used Procore construction software for information requests, document management, submittals and communication between the different stakeholders involved in the process. Weekly meetings were held both on site and offline with the client and architects.

Delivery was on time, despite the design phase taking longer than expected, due to additional design requests. This meant the budget was slightly higher than originally set and cost planned. Environmental impact and cost were reduced by the client taking sustainable measures including reusing existing office furniture, and use of existing lighting and new LED lighting.