Office design and fit-out in Almaty
Instruments first. Then the design. We run the construction ourselves. Six months later, a follow-up measurement.
We have designed offices for BASF, ABB, Oracle, Metso, Halyk Bank, KMF, Jet and Beeclever Group, from 150 to 2,500 m².
Halyk Bank and Metso came back to us: five branches for the bank over three years, four offices for Metso, including in Astana and Tashkent.
In more than half of these offices we also designed the building services: ventilation, air conditioning, electrics and lighting. They decide how an office breathes and how people work in it.
For BASF, Jet, KMF, Metso and IDF we not only designed the offices but also built them.
Workplaces where people find it easier to work: a layout built around the working day, light, acoustics, engineering.
This is a real measurement in the office of a company in Almaty. We do not name it — that is our agreement. We show both what needs work and what turned out to be fine.
According to a lighting company’s survey, even under the fixtures it was 325 lux, against the 400 required in Kazakhstan for computer work; in the farthest spots, as low as 20. Some fixtures flicker. The lighting engineers’ conclusion: the system cannot be fixed piecemeal, it needs a full upgrade.
In the zone where the sensor stayed for 23 days, CO2 rose above the recommended 1,000 ppm on three days out of 23. In the other zone, during a four-day short measurement, there was a day when it stayed above 1,000 for about seven hours in a row, peaking at 1,481.
For 62% of the measured time humidity was below 40%, with a minimum of about 24%. The air is dry.
Most of the time within 20–25 °C. We counted no losses for temperature: we do not count what the measurement did not confirm.
The two sensors stood in different zones one after the other, not at the same time, so we do not compare the zones. Light was measured once. Noise was recorded for one day at two points, but that data did not go into the report or the calculation.
HR keeps hearing the same things: stuffy, noisy, tired. Management sees something else: sick leave, resignations, missed deadlines. Only a number can connect the two: what the environment costs the company a year.
Until that sum is calculated, the company pays it in silence.
CO2 shows how short a room is of fresh air. Whether the gas itself does harm at normal office levels, scientists still argue. But in a very stale room people feel worse: headaches, drowsiness.
In Kazakhstan, the lighting standard for computer work is 400 lux. We check it at the workstations, along with the flicker of the fixtures that the eye does not notice.
We measure noise by zone: during the day, when everyone is in, and at night, when the office is empty. That shows what makes the noise — people or building services.
Every departure costs money: recruiting, training, the months before a new person is fully up to speed. From your resignation and sick-leave records we calculate what they cost. How much of that can be put down to the office we estimate separately, and we say where the estimate comes from.
A beautiful office is the required minimum. The goal is for people to get less tired and leave less often, and we check it by measurement.
Sensors for CO2, temperature and humidity stay in the office for weeks: a single visit easily misses the bad hours. Plus a lux meter, a sound level meter, an employee survey, and sick-leave and resignation records.
We convert deviations into money and mark every line: where it is a measurement and where it is an assumption. Any line can be accepted or rejected separately.
Layout, lighting, acoustics and engineering are designed around what the measurement showed.
We run the construction ourselves: our managers on site are responsible for every contractor. Six months after move-in comes a follow-up measurement that shows whether anything has actually changed.
Shopping centres, restaurants, schools, hotels and houses. Our work includes Aport Mall East, French House, TAMOS Prometheus school and the Climatron greenhouse in Astana.
An office environment audit means weeks of measurements, an employee survey and a report that calculates losses from the measurements in your office. Then it is your call: do the project with us, with someone else, or not at all.
Not ready for measurements? Start with a conversation. We will look at the floor plan, discuss what gets in the way of work and tell you roughly what the design and the fit-out will cost.