Ambitious Office Reconfiguration at Leading Travel Rental Firm.

Awaze is Europe's leading managed vacation rentals and holiday resorts business, with operations and team members in most European countries as well as the UK. Total Build were tasked with an exciting opportunity to convert their existing offices in Lowestoft.

Prior to work beginning their lowestoft offices, which occupied an old shoe factory within the town, the building had been repurposed to hold contained and secluded office areas. The brief of the project was to create a more open plan and collaborative working environment for both their employees and visiting customers.

The call centre is open until 9pm so this specific challenge meant that no loud work could be carried out until after then. As much quiet work was done during the day and the main portion of the demolition and removal of the existing partitions was carried out throughout the night. The whole project took just under two weeks with as little disturbance with the day to day running of the call centre.

There were seven offices in total that required opening up in the main call centre section of the building to make the environment more inclusive for all the members of their team.

We started by removing all of the individual office partitions, glass, doors and suspended ceilings to leave the main structure and roof. We carefully reduced back the timber frame to be inline with the existing walls. We then reassembled the suspended ceilings, electrical sockets, lights and sprinkler system into the small section of ceiling that remained. 

The office wall partitions went through the suspended floor which could not have been anticipated so we also had to patch up the floor and add more carpet tiles down. The fascia and redecoration took place once construction was complete, finishing off the remaining sections to match into the existing.