Turnkey Office Fit-Out — Cat A and Cat B Delivered End to End
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
| Project | Type |
|---|---|
| Theon Pharmaceuticals | Corporate office, Nalagarh |
| MicroSave Consulting (MSC) | Corporate office |
| Valorium Ventures | Office interior |
| Revolve Technologies | Software company office |
| Bansal Tower | Co-working fit-out |
Scope of works
| Stage | What we deliver |
|---|---|
| Brief & survey | Headcount, working style, measured survey of the floor |
| Space planning | Test fits, circulation, seat counts against carpet area |
| Design | 3D concepts, material and finish selection, drawings |
| Approvals | Landlord NOC, fit-out drawings, statutory coordination |
| Execution | Civil, partitions, ceilings, flooring, MEP, joinery |
| Furniture | Workstations, storage, loose furniture, installation |
| Handover | Snagging, 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
- ECBC 2017 — Lighting and envelope
- ISO 9001:2015 — Quality management