Turnkey Office Fit-Out — Cat A and Cat B Delivered End to End

A turnkey office fit-out takes a floor from bare shell or a landlord's Cat A condition to a ready-to-occupy office under one contract, covering space planning, design, approvals, civil works, ceilings, MEP, joinery, furniture and handover. Its main value is that one party resolves the interfaces between trades on drawings rather than on site.

By Dhruv Agarwal · · 2 min read

What we deliver

Complete office fit-out under one contract — from an empty shell or a landlord's Cat A floor through to a space your team can move into.

The reason clients consolidate this into one contract is not convenience. It is that the expensive failures on a fit-out happen at the interfaces — between the ceiling contractor and the sprinkler contractor, between the furniture layout and the small power design, between the partition line and the HVAC zoning. When those are one party's responsibility, they get resolved on a drawing instead of on site.

Delivered work

ProjectType
Theon PharmaceuticalsCorporate office, Nalagarh
MicroSave Consulting (MSC)Corporate office
Valorium VenturesOffice interior
Revolve TechnologiesSoftware company office

Scope of works

StageWhat we deliver
Brief & surveyHeadcount, working style, measured survey of the floor
Space planningTest fits, circulation, seat counts against carpet area
Design3D concepts, material and finish selection, drawings
ApprovalsLandlord NOC, fit-out drawings, statutory coordination
ExecutionCivil, partitions, ceilings, flooring, MEP, joinery
FurnitureWorkstations, storage, loose furniture, installation
HandoverSnagging, testing, O&M documentation, warranty

What drives the cost

Carpet area — never chargeable area · specification grade · cabin and meeting room density, since partitions and their MEP knock-ons are expensive · furniture specification, often the single largest line · whether the floor is Cat A or bare shell · occupied versus empty · programme compression · finishes and branding.

Where projects go wrong

  • Budgeting against chargeable area. On a 30% loading factor a fit-out looks 30% more expensive per square foot than it is. Fit-out is priced on carpet.
  • Assuming a Cat A floor is nearly finished. It is deliberately generic, and Cat B undoes part of it — ceilings cut, sprinklers moved, HVAC rebalanced.
  • Freezing the layout after ceilings close. Adding cabins changes escape routes, travel distance and occupancy under NBC 2016 Part 4. Cheap on a drawing, expensive after.
  • Ordering furniture late. Long-lead joinery and workstations govern the handover date more often than site work does.
  • No landlord NOC in the programme. Fit-out cannot legitimately start without it, and the approval sits outside your control.

Why Hagerstone

60-day delivery model with a 5-year warranty, and single-partner execution — interiors, MEP, facade, civil and PEB under one integrated team rather than five contractors meeting at an interface.

Trades in-house: 15 carpenters, 15 electricians, 15 plumbers, 15 HVAC, 15 fitters, 15 technicians, a 35-member firefighting team and a 53-member site team.

79+ quality checkpoints under ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 45001:2018, with a dedicated CRM as a single point of contact.

Standards referenced

Occupancy, exits and travel distance — all of which move when a floor is subdivided — under NBC 2016, Part 4. Lighting power density and envelope under ECBC 2017. Quality management to ISO 9001:2015.

Standards referenced

  • NBC 2016, Part 4 — Fire and life safety — occupancy and egress (Bureau of Indian Standards)
  • ECBC 2017 — Lighting and envelope (Bureau of Energy Efficiency)
  • ISO 9001:2015 — Quality management (ISO)

Frequently asked

We work to a 60-day delivery model for end-to-end execution, and clients have had offices handed over inside 45 days. What actually governs the programme is rarely the site work — it is design freeze, long-lead furniture and joinery, and landlord approvals. A floor where the layout is settled and the landlord NOC is in hand moves far faster than one where cabins are still being argued about in week three.

Turnkey means one contract from design through handover — space planning, drawings, civil and partition work, ceilings, flooring, joinery, furniture, electrical, HVAC, plumbing and firefighting, low voltage and networking, finishes, and snagging. What sits outside is typically landlord-scope base build, IT hardware and active network equipment, and anything the client procures directly.

Yes, and it changes the method rather than the scope. Occupied fit-outs run in phases with defined decant sequences, noisy work restricted to agreed windows, and dust and fire separation between the live and the working zone. It costs more per square foot than an empty floor and takes longer, and both need to be in the programme from the start rather than discovered in week two.

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