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Business and Commercial Users

Most businessmen, and women, use buildings. And buildings can affect profits, for good or ill, depending on their layout and design.

Businessmen know about their own organisation. products (or services), personnel and markets

Architects, however, know about buildings, and also DESIGN in its broadest sense - that is, a real fitness for purpose as well as good appearance.

It makes sound economic sense, therefore, for businesspeople and industrialists to engage the help of interested Architects to take advantage of their professional skills, imagination and experience to try to make their buildings or workplaces more profitable - or less wasteful.

Architects, like doctors, can diagnose problems and recommend some simple treatment or a major operation as may be necessary. They can design new buildings tailor-made to fit particular requirements or. alternatively, can help you make the best use of your existing premises, equipment or furnishings, and to prepare a long-term plan to suit the budget.

Expenditure on an Architect's time can be a good investment - in making better use of floor space, reducing maintenance and fuel costs, increasing efficiency and profitability, improving image to staff and public, and increasing your building value as an asset.

We can help you with

Looking at your business premises to see how its layout, design, equipment or furniture could be improved to make working procedures easier. save costs on heating or lighting, meet regulations, serve your public or improve your image.

Advising on costing, and on making short or long-term plan and phasing work to suit budgets.

Examining alternative new premises, extensions. conversions or proposals, to test their likely costs and effect on business.

Advising on the integration and presentation of all visible aspects of the business, to enhance prestige and its visual impact, ensuring it is appropriate to the nature of the business and the market sector targeted. Also making provision for future changes and development, - and ensuring maximum effect for minimum cost.

Our experience includes

A wide range of businesses from the international to the one-man scale, and in dealing with all levels of management and personnel from chairmen and managing directors down, covering many different services and products.

Offices, work-spaces, sales areas, staff facilities and special equipment areas for national airline and other organisations. Prestige areas, and a preview theatre, for Granada Theatres Head Office in Golden Square. Showrooms, test labs, laundrettes etc. A series of retail and wholesale premises for Mander Brothers, and Feasibility Studies for Shrewsbury Crown Court and other buildings for the DoE's Property Services Agency