From Lease To First Morning
An office arrives as a lease and a deadline: a floor of concrete and glass, rent that begins whether you are ready or not, and a morning – already circled – when your people walk in and read the room. We close that distance under one contract. The space plan and the drawings, the landlord's consents and the authority's permits, the services above the ceiling and beneath the raised floor, the joinery that gives the address its character – priced once, sequenced by one programme, answerable to one person. The boardroom table is cut in our own workshop in Al Quoz, by the people who will carry it up. And we grew up, too, under the region’s tier-one main contractors – their supervision standards are the ones this house keeps.
- Since
- 2016 – offices and shops alongside the kitchens
- Scope
- Space plan to snag list – drawings, approvals, MEP, joinery, finishes
- Settings
- Towers, malls, business parks and warehouses – trading, occupied or bare
- Approvals
- Municipality or free zone, civil defence, and the landlord's NOCs – in-house
- Workshop
- Reception desks, boardroom tables and panelling – cut in Al Quoz
- Standard
- Built to remain
The Rooms Business Keeps
Commercial clients hire us partly to be invisible. A shop cannot be seen half-built; a company's move is its own news to break, not ours. So this page is quieter than the record it stands on – you have walked past our hoarding, sat in rooms we handed over, been served across joinery from our bench, and our name was nowhere in sight. The clients know. That has always been enough.
- Offices
- Headquarters floors, studios and the boardrooms they answer to
- Retail
- Shops and showrooms – built to the mall's hours and the brand's book
- Clinics
- Licensed rooms for medicine and wellness – lined for quiet
- Industrial
- Warehouses and logistics floors – the city’s back of house, built properly
Proof, Not Promises
Two commercial tenancies stand on the record whole – a restaurant taken from bare shell to trading, and a café whose kitchen works in full view of its room; leases, licences, authorities and all. And because a house that builds offices should be at ease showing its own paperwork, the third door is our contract itself – the terms we sign, printed in plain sight.
The lease starts the clock; the room decides what the hours were worth.
How It Runs
A commercial programme answers two calendars – the landlord's and yours – and it is built backwards from the day you must occupy. Rent-free periods are short, and we treat them as what they are: the first line of the budget. In a trading mall the noisy work happens while the city sleeps; on an occupied floor the corridor stays clean, the fire routes stay sacred, and your people arrive at eight to no trace of us but progress.
Frames marked “· study” are visual studies, standing in where commercial confidentiality keeps photographs off the record. The practice they stand for is real; the names attached to it are traded across a table.
- 01Survey, space plan and test fit – before you sign, if you let us
- 02Drawings, samples and one fixed sum – approved before anything is ordered
- 03Approvals – the authority's permit, the landlord's NOC, civil defence – in-house
- 04Hoarding up, strip-out and first fix – out of hours where the building demands it
- 05The workshop weeks – the reception desk, the boardroom table and the panelling, cut in Al Quoz
- 06Second fix, finishes and handover – manuals, warranties and the numbers of the people who built it
Answered Plainly
How much does an office fit out cost in Dubai?
Honestly: it depends on the floor and the ambition, and anyone quoting a rate per square foot before a space plan exists is guessing with your budget. What we fix is how the number behaves – a test fit first, then drawings and samples, then one lump sum against both, so the figure you sign is the figure you pay unless you change the scope.
What is the difference between Cat A and Cat B fit out?
Cat A is the landlord's baseline – the floor with its main services run, ceilings and screed in, ready to let and belonging to no one. Cat B is everything that makes it yours: partitions, finishes, joinery, the boardroom, the pantry, the light your people work under. We build Cat B, quietly correct Cat A where it falls short of what the drawings assumed, and put the floor back to its lease condition when you one day leave.
Do you handle the landlord’s and the authority’s approvals?
Yes – all of them, in-house. The fit-out permit with whichever authority the address answers to – Dubai Municipality or the free zone’s own regime – the civil defence approvals everything else hangs on, and the building management’s NOCs. Our paper, our runners; you sign, we chase.
Can you fit out our office while we keep working in it?
Yes – most commercial work happens around a business in motion. Phased floors behind clean hoarding, night works where the mall trades above us, weekend moves, protected routes and a clean-down before eight. Your neighbours, your landlord and your own people should know the work mostly by its progress.
How long does an office fit out take in Dubai?
A floor of open workspace moves in weeks; a headquarters with a reception, a boardroom and a story to tell is a season. The programme is built backwards from the day the lease says you occupy, arrives with the price, and keeping it is treated as part of the specification – not a hope.
Bring us the floor plate and the day you must occupy.