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Workplace Strategy
We deliver smart workplace strategies for our clients in Sydney. Our aim is to ensure your workplace is strategically designed for optimal efficiency and long-term success. We tailor our approach to align with your business objectives, maximising space utilisation and fostering productivity and innovation. Create a workplace that supports your business and your people with Niche.
Crafting a well-designed workplace is about optimising space and enhancing the way your business functions. We tailor our approach to support your unique requirements, with the aim of improving collaboration, integrating hybrid work solutions, or future-proofing your space for growth. Our team works closely with you to ensure that every square metre serves a purpose, creating an environment where your employees can thrive.
Our team harnesses industry knowledge and extensive experience to transform your workplace into a space that not only meets operational needs but also improves employee engagement and business performance. Whether you’re looking to renovate, relocate, or simply improve your existing layout, our strategic planning services will help you make the most of your workspace investment.
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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