Making the most of disused office space, such as this fabulous conversion into a staff fitness suite, can do wonders for staff morale and workforce engagement.
Client: Private
Sector: Oil & Gas
Value: £210,000 (2019)
Timescale: 2.5 months
Design & Build Project Management: Canale Associates & Albyn Design & Build
Principal Contractor: David Urquhart Joinery
Structural Engineer: Ramsay & Chalmers
As your workplace develops over time, certain areas can be left unused, taking up valuable real estate in your building. In this case, a fitness suite was created by converting an old mail room and project office, providing a large open suite with new changing facilities, showers, drying room and lockers.
Total floorspace reclaimed of 135sq.m. (1500sq.ft.), serving a building with 550 staff.
Out With The Old
Every nook and cranny in your building has the potential to be put to good use
BEFORE: The areas were dated, tired, and unused. Do you remember having a mailroom?!
Every nook and cranny in your building has the potential to be put to good use, and at Albyn Design & Build we are well placed to help you seek out those valuable areas. Whether it's re-purposing an existing area, extending into disused external zones, even taking down internal walls and forming new spaces, we're a dab hand at finding space.
By completely stripping out the mailroom, storage and office areas, and knocking out the internal walls, a new fitness area was formed along with male and female changing & showers, a drying room, a disabled shower facility, and a secure access lobby.
We also broke out the external wall forming a full size structural opening providing a fully glazed wall and fire exit, complete with mirror glass film allowing gym-goers stacks of daylight without compromising privacy from the adjacent offices.
The works were carried out alongside a full renovation of the remaining offices.
AFTER: The stunning results of the conversion make the area unrecognisable!