Project, Office Fit-Out

Woodbridge Office Fit-Out: Private Offices Inside an Occupied Floor

Steel stud partitions framed to the existing T-bar grid, filled with mineral wool acoustic batts, boarded, taped and fitted with doors, while the rest of the floor kept working.

The Story

Turning open plan into private offices without shutting the floor down.

An office in Woodbridge needed private offices and meeting rooms carved out of an open-plan floor. The space already had a suspended T-bar ceiling, carpet tile and a working team on the other side of the caution tape, so the job was as much about sequencing and cleanliness as it was about framing.

Our crew laid out the new rooms from the space plan and framed the partitions in light gauge steel stud to the underside of the existing grid, lifting and resetting ceiling tiles at each wall line. Mineral wool batts were fitted between the studs so conversations stay inside the rooms. Boarding followed the electrical rough-in through the new walls, then taping, sanding and the door frames and doors.

The photographs show the sequence as it happened: framed rooms under the grid, insulation in the walls, board going on, and the finished corridor wall with its door hung. It is the standard scope for a tenant improvement in the GTA, done in an occupied building.

Project
Office fit-out, private offices and meeting rooms
Sector
Office, tenant improvement
Location
Woodbridge, Vaughan, Ontario
Our role
Drywall and steel stud contractor
Scope
Layout, steel stud partitions to the T-bar grid, mineral wool acoustic insulation, boarding, taping, door frames and doors
Conditions
Occupied open-plan office, existing suspended ceiling and carpet tile
Scope of Work

What the fit-out scope covered.

  • Layout Room lines set from the space plan and checked against the ceiling grid so wall lines land cleanly on the tile module.
  • Steel stud partitions Light gauge track and studs framed to the underside of the existing T-bar grid, tiles lifted and reset at each wall.
  • Acoustic insulation Mineral wool batts fitted between studs in every partition for speech privacy between rooms.
  • Rough-in coordination Boarding held until electrical rough-in through the new walls was complete.
  • Boarding Drywall both sides, joints staggered, corners backed for a straight corridor line.
  • Taping and finishing Taped and sanded to a paint-ready finish, ready for the painter to follow.
  • Doors Openings framed to the door schedule, frames set plumb and doors hung.
  • Occupied-floor protection Work zone taped off, carpet protected, floor cleared at the end of each shift.

Fit-out in an occupied office?

Send the space plan and the building's construction rules. We will return a bid and a phasing plan that keeps the rest of the floor working.

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