Choosing the right Task Chair

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We often sit for hours at a desk daily in the office, although everyone knows that sitting for hours at a time is bad for the back, bad for the health its sometimes unavoidable.

How many employers actually take the time to test out the plethora of task chairs? Very few it would seem.

The challenge is that one size does not fit all, for large companies who have a team of all different shapes and sizes it can be a daunting task to select the appropriate chairs for the whole team.

With Activity Based Workspaces becoming more and more popular chairs may have to be adjusted every single time someone selects a new place to sit.

Companies want to avoid staff getting injuries from bad ergonomic chairs so the key is to find task chairs that have intuitive tension controls which with minimal adujstment can become comfortable and ergonomic for the whole team.

Working with a Furniture Consultant who can advise and help select the task chairs to fit your teams needs is a sensible solution. They will have tried and tested numerous task chairs and their industry knowledge will take the hard work out of the selection process saving you time.

How to Control the Budget of your Fitout Stage 3 by Andrew Holder

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Stage 3……..

Once the concept plans are approved your designer will move to a more detailed stage of design.
Next a set of thorough set of construction documents will need to be populated and your contractor will need to finalise pricing from the various suppliers and subcontractors required to build the project.

The accuracy and thoroughness of these documents is critical as this will determine the robustness of the pricing from these suppliers and subcontractors.
Any errors, missing information or ambiguity at this cruical stage will come back and bite you later financially.

Ensure that your consultant team reviews all the plans and documents for errors and or omissions.
Make sure the contract you work with is a Design and Construct contract as this ensures that the financial ownership and delivery of the project lies with the design and construct contractor.

Do not leave yourself exposed.

How to Control the Budget of your Fitout Stage 2 by Andrew Holder

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Stage 2…….

Concept Design

Once the concepts are developed then a budget checking process should be adopted.

Ensure that the ideas are financially tested before you move on to the detailed design. If your project is destined for financial disaster because the design is just too fancy then now is the time to pull the reins in.

Its critical that your project team presents a guideline budget against the concept plan. Make sure you are on the right path and that you are all on the same page.

How to Control the fitout budget by Andrew Holder

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There are 3 critical milestones in every fit out where the financial destiny of a project is shaped. These important milestones give you the opportunity to reset the financial pathway of the project budgets and avoid the blowing your budget and / or the project timeline.

Stage 1 – Initial Planning……

At inception of the project set a framework that outlines the three key factors of timeframe, budget and design. These three project drivers are often in conflict with each other. You may find that the design wish list cannot be met by budget constraints, or perhaps time constraints will restrict design flair, for example.
Decide which one of these three drivers holds the most importance in the project planning and this will give you the road map you need.
If budget is the most important thing to you then set your budget intelligentlyand then ensure that everyone on your design team are made fully aware of it. Every design idea needs to work within the financial constraints you have set for the project. Its the design teams responsibility to be accountable for designing the project within the budget you have set.