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Strategic Briefing
Strategic briefing aims to align your workplace decisions with your wider corporate objectives. Our team will take the time to understand the objectives of your business by engaging with key stakeholders, defining business goals over the short, medium, and long term, and understanding your operational requirements. Once we help you clearly define these elements, we can begin to consider and assess significant real estate commitments.
A well-structured strategic briefing process ensures that your workplace strategy is responsive to your immediate needs. It also ensures a strategy that is adaptable to future growth and evolving business demands. By analysing workflows, departmental interactions, and long-term workforce projections, our advisors develop a clear roadmap for your real estate strategy. This approach minimises risk, ensures space efficiency, and ultimately delivers the right workplace for your organisation.
Strategic briefing with an experienced commercial property advisor allows businesses to unlock additional value through quality workplace design, sustainability initiatives, and operational efficiencies. Our expertise ensures you can prioritise improving employee collaboration, enhancing brand presence, or supporting hybrid work models. A strong strategic foundation helps turn your workplace into a powerful driver of success.
Stage 1: Needs Analysis
- Review of existing workplace and accommodation standards
- Future workplace envisioning
- New suite of work settings
- Develop and agree space budget
- Stay V Go analysis including comparative financial analysis of the options
- Establish project budget and benchmarks
- Develop and agree project program
- Strategic Recommendations
Stage 2: Property Search and Lease Negotiations
- Property and space performance brief
- Issue agreed property Brief to agreed sectors
- Interview and evaluate respondents/responses
- Comparison matrix of options
- Building services audit
- Space planning analysis of shortlisted properties
- Negotiation and preparation of commercial heads of agreement (HoA)
- Achieve ‘best and final’ offers with shortlisted options
- Execute HoA
- Negotiate/execute Lease documentation
Stage 3: Design Services
- Develop concept design
- Block and stack
- Sample and evaluate furniture selections
- Design development and associated cost forecasting
- Value management workshop
- Lodge authority and building owner approvals
- Project programming
- Detailed Documentation
- Manage services documentation by Services Engineers and co-ordinate with architectural layout
Stage 4: Tender and Award Contracts
- Agree packages for tender and issue proposed contractor tender list for client approval
- Prepare tender documentation (scope, contract, program, inclusions, transmittals, etc.) and issue to market
- Answer RFIs
- Collate tender responses, evaluate, negotiate and present total cost to construct as a trade-by-trade breakup
- Engage and administer subcontracts
Stage 5: Construction Management
- Manage and report on site construction works against agreed time, cost, quality and environmental metrics
- Implement safety management plan
- Convene, chair and minute weekly contractor and consultant meetings
- Convene, chair and minute weekly contractor and consultant meetings
- Manage final commissioning, Practical Completion, Occupation Certificate (OC) and Final completion
- Schedule defects and manage rectification
- As-built documentation & maintenance manuals
Within a hybrid environment, ogranisations may no longer require ‘alocated’ work points for every team member. At Niche Advisory, we will analyse your employee attendance rhythms to determine the exact area (m2) quantum of your optimal ‘new way of working’.
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