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Office Design


An office is not about a pretty picture. It is about how much people get done in it and how quickly they get tired.

We design workplaces and measure what is usually left unmeasured: air, light, noise, ergonomics. The layout follows how the company actually works, not a guess.


Cost

Office design project — from 15,000 KZT per m².

The rate depends on the area and goes down as it grows: above 1,000 m² the price per metre is lower and calculated individually.

Minimum project value — 5 million KZT.

The final cost is fixed once we have the floor plans and the brief.

Engineering sections — HVAC, electrical and lighting, low-current systems, fire safety — are priced separately and depend on the set of systems.

Timeline

up to 300 m² — 25–35 working days

301–700 m² — 35–45 working days

701–1,500 m² — 45–60 working days

over 1,500 m² — to an agreed schedule

The full cycle before work starts on site, including engineering sections and the technical survey, takes 45–60 working days.


What the office design project includes

Survey and analysis of the space
What gets in the way, what can be used, where the hidden structural and engineering limits are.

Space planning
Zoning around work scenarios: focused work, meetings, client visits, rest. The logic of the working day, not desks along the walls.

Design concept
Style, materials, light, colour. Agreed before the drawings, so nothing has to be redone.

3D visualisation of agreed areas
You see the future office before anything is bought or built.

Working drawings
Furniture, electrical and lighting plans, wall elevations, junctions and sections — the set the builders work from.

Cost estimate
Materials, works, equipment, logistics. The budget is visible up front, not as you go.

Procurement
Furniture and finishing materials selected to the project specification.


How this differs from an ordinary design project

An ordinary project answers one question: how will it look. We answer a second one: how will it work on people.

Before the layout we measure the environment with instruments and survey the staff: air quality, illumination, noise levels, workplace ergonomics.

In our measurements of Almaty offices CO₂ reaches 1,481 ppm against a norm of 1,000. That is the stuffiness after lunch, the drowsiness and the late-afternoon mistakes that almost nobody connects to the room — they are blamed on the people.

A measurement turns an argument about taste into a conversation about numbers: where people sit too densely, where there is not enough light, where meeting rooms eat the quiet of the open space.

How the work is organised

Payment by stage: 50% advance, 30% once the concept is approved, 20% on handover of the documentation.

Twelve-month warranty on completed works.

Weekly photo and video reports against the schedule, with a dedicated project manager.

Author supervision on site, so that what gets built is what was designed. Provided free of charge when the construction contract is placed with us.


Offices we have designed

Beeclever Group
Almaty, 2,500 m², 2025

BRP Centre 3.0
Almaty, 1,500 m², 2025

Office at Almaty Plaza business centre
Almaty, 1,000 m², 2025

Yesset sound laboratory
Almaty, 300 m², 2024

The full portfolio of office and commercial spaces is in the Commercial Spaces section.


About the studio

Working since 2013. Over 200,000 m² of delivered projects: offices, banks, shopping centres, restaurants, schools and clinics.

Clients include Halyk Bank, Aport Mall East, Metso Outotec, Weir Minerals, Porsche Design, KMF, KFC and Czech Camp.

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