Posted on: April 23, 2021 Posted by: Flenn Freeman Comments: 0

As a business owner, you have many goals for your company. Increased demand for your services and market share often comes with a need to expand your operations literally. Perhaps you need to hire employees and add more workspace. Either way, your current office won’t cut it and you’re considering building out additional space or moving to a different space that needs to be built out. Here’s what you should know.

Developing Scope

One of the things to do is to determine exactly what you need. Are there a certain number of offices or cubicles to be added? Do you need conference rooms, collaborative meeting spaces or training rooms? It’s important to review this with other decision makers/leaders in your organization to make sure that the scope of work to be done matches your goals.

Overseeing the Work

You probably won’t be doing the buildout work yourself, so you’ll need to hire professionals to both come up with a plan and make it a reality. Consider hiring an independent project manager who can serve as a liaison between the pros and you and your leadership team. Such a person can do everything from review design development drawings Irvine CA to making sure the contractors are sticking to the agreed-upon budget and schedule.

Preparing for Construction

Once you have a plan in place, you need to be ready to deal with the challenges of an ongoing project. Work done during business hours may interfere with some operations, or at the very least, make the workplace noisier than usual. You and your project manager and contractors should talk about an overall schedule that helps minimize the impacts and interruptions to your business.

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Congratulations on your success that has made it necessary to expand your office space. Building out a workplace with new design and construction will come with its own set of challenges. Careful and comprehensive planning can help mitigate these challenges.