Renovating a business space is a surefire investment in the future of your company. It can add further functionality, security, and capacity to your operations, whether you are expanding your office space, adding more meeting rooms, or simply resurfacing the whole building.
Of course, meanwhile, it is important to make sure that your staff is given the opportunity to work elsewhere. This may be easier than ever before, as the prevalence of remote work is now more likely for a wide range of office workers. Alternatively, moving the office nearby, or even bringing a non-permanent office shelter to the location can serve as a non-permanent solution.
Regardless of the logistics involved, what’s important is ensuring your intentions are mapped out and planned properly from the start. In this way, you can make sure that your budgeting forecasts remain accurate, and make sure that your ultimate development goals are achieved. In this post, we’ll cover three priorities that business owners can use to measure their renovation planning and metrics:
Security
Of course, no place of business is worth spending your time in if it isn’t safe. This may sound apparent, but you’d be surprised how the rule of ‘death by a thousand cuts’ can be applied to inappropriate safety management. Sure, your power grid may not be on or exposed to general staff, but could it be that your signage in the server room was sloppy, causing some unknowing staff to walk in with hot coffee? Is it possible that the lighting is not as strong as it should be, or perhaps that too many people, and thus too many travel hazards, are present in an office where two departments are attempting to coexist? Maybe that check and hazardous area classification is extremely important for suitable maintenance of space. Keep safety as your top precedence.
Logistics
Logistics someplace important. How are items moved from your cargo hold to where they might be needed? Is there proper marking, and do you allow enough space between the shelving units? How might you mark these areas, and what storage mechanisms will you put in place to guard your inventory (such as an air filtration system). If you are setting up a loading bay for the first time, then how will you mark your parking zones to make sure trucks can enter and exit without blocking one another? These questions are important and insightful to keep on top.
Navigation
The navigational skills of your business are critical – from making it clear where visitors should arrive at your front desk (and which entrance to use there), and using coloured lines to make sure guests and diners can find their way, it is important to mark and organize your department in a coherent and understandable way. Next, added improved navigation, such as extra Emergency Stairs route from the second floor, may even save lives in the future. That’s a priceless investment.
With these suggestions, you are sure to renovate your business premises with confidence and clarity.
