How long is the floor out of service?

It depends on the scope, but it is planned so that outages are bounded and fall within agreed windows. The aim is for the floor to be reoccupied zone by zone as the work is completed.

Is RETIE certification needed for an office refurbishment?

When the electrical installation is altered, yes. It covers the refurbished area and is what backs the company up with building management and the insurer.

Is the data cabling certified?

Yes. We deliver structured cabling with point-to-point certification, which is the proof that every outlet meets the specified performance.

Electrical and telecom refurbishmentS.C.A.R.E. Building

Complete refurbishment of the 5th floor: electrical installations, telecommunications, access control and lighting, coordinated with building management so the other floors were unaffected.

SectorCommercial · office building ScopeElectrical, network, access and lighting ConstraintBuilding in operation Get a similar quote

Electrical panel with labelled circuits — Identified circuits

Network patch cords on a patch panel — Structured cabling

CCTV dome camera in a facility — Camera coverage

Electrical installations across the whole floor.

What was needed

A floor refurbishment in an occupied corporate building has a constraint that is not technical: the other floors are still working. The electrical installation, the data network, the lighting and the access control of an entire floor had to be rebuilt, to agreed hours and without noise or outages affecting the neighbours.

Electrical drawings and a meter on the workbench — Four work fronts on one floor, coordinated with building management.

Refurbishing one floor without disturbing the rest

The constraint on a refurbishment in an occupied corporate building is not technical: it is about coexistence. Neighbouring floors are still working, management has rules on hours, noise and lift use, and any badly planned outage affects companies with nothing to do with the works.

That is why the schedule is negotiated before the scope. What can be done in working hours, what requires nights or weekends, how materials are brought up and when the floor can be de-energised. When the electrical work, the network, the lighting and the access control are delivered by one team, that negotiation happens once instead of four times.

Result

The floor was handed over with all four fronts complete under one schedule and one warranty, without affecting the operation of the rest of the building.

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