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Case study · Office refurbishment

Active Assistance.
A tired office,
refreshed in two weeks.

A first-floor headquarters in Sevenoaks brought from grey partitioning and worn carpet to a clean, open and professional workplace. Strip-out to handover in fourteen days.

Active Assistance refurbished office, Sevenoaks. Open plan with bespoke oak storage wall
Client
Active Assistance
Sector
Care services
Location
Sevenoaks, Kent
Scope
Full refurbishment, M&E and furniture
Programme
2 weeks
The brief

An office that had to do three jobs at once.

Active Assistance had outgrown the look of their head office. The space was tired, the layout fought against the way the team actually worked, and visitors weren't getting the impression the brand deserved.

The brief was clear: a workplace that made everyday collaboration easier, gave the right impression to anyone walking through the door, and helped the business hold on to good people while bringing new ones in. All without taking the team off the floor for any longer than absolutely necessary.

Before

What we started with.

Surface-mounted grey partitioning, worn carpet, mixed furniture and very little daylight reaching the centre of the floor.

The approach

Back to the slab, then rebuilt to work harder.

We took the floor back to bare bones, then rebuilt around how the team actually wanted to work. The old grey, surface-mounted partitioning came out. In its place, a bespoke oak storage wall divides the open plan, and full-height glass partitioning forms two new meeting rooms. Sightlines open up across the plate, daylight reaches the centre, and the team get proper rooms without losing the openness.

Carpet tiles, ceiling grid, lighting, air conditioning, electrics and furniture were all replaced in the same fortnight, with a silhouette pattern manifested onto the meeting room glass.

Two weeks, start to finish. Strip-out on a Monday, team back in their seats fourteen days later.

14days
Strip-out to handover
1
Single phase, end to end
2
New meeting rooms
0
Days lost to extras
After

Open, bright and visibly busy.

New stud and glazed partitions opened up the plan, brought daylight in and gave each team a proper space without closing them off from the rest of the floor.

Two new rooms

One for the table, one for the team.

A larger meeting room sized for client work and town halls, plus a smaller one with the brand silhouette manifested onto the glass.

Two weeks. No drama. We came back to a space everyone wanted to work in...
Terry Fallon · Office Manager, Active Assistance

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