Spaceway creates office for Martin Grant Homes

A Spaceway Group product story

Edited by the Interiorstalk editorial team Jan 5, 2010

Spaceway Group has created a new office layout at the UK headquarters of Martin Grant Homes, a private house-building company.

Martin Grant Homes needed to generate additional space at its headquarters in Dorking; the company required the new office layout to provide space for more staff, help improve communication and deliver airy and pleasant surroundings.

Spaceway has created an office solution to accommodate directors, senior managers and administrative staff from the drawing office, land department and customer care, surveying, buying and sales.

Spaceway has undertaken a complete turnkey operation for Martin Grant Homes, including design, all building and electrical work and the supply of office furniture.

To create the additional space on the ground floor of the two-storey building, it was decided that the existing cellular offices would need to be demolished and the area turned into an open-plan environment.

This meant that Spaceway had to demolish the existing ground-floor offices, retaining just the meeting room.

Now, with the groundwork finished, Spaceway set about creating the optimum office solution to accommodate directors, senior managers and administrative staff from the drawing office, land department and customer care, surveying, buying and sales.

A suspended ceiling was installed and seven cellular offices created for directors utilising Komfort Polar glass partitioning, which was specially commissioned with Martin Grant Homes' manifestations on the glass.

The offices were equipped with storage walls to provide maximum storage and the areas carpeted using Milliken Vortex quality carpet, which comes with a 10-year guarantee.

In order to conceal the electrics and cabling for the 27 workstations, Spaceway cut channels into the floor and columns and then decorated throughout.

A VRF air-conditioning system was installed, which enabled Martin Grant Homes to utilise the government's Capital Enhancement Scheme.

To complete the work, Spaceway supplied the 27 workstations with pedestal desks with wire management trays in maple, together with operator chairs and screens.

The directors' offices were equipped with bow-fronted workstations in maple, with silver workfronts and executive chairs.

Finally, Spaceway supplied the meeting rooms with tables and cantilever chairs and the reception area with visitor chairs.