Office renovation in Paris.

Design & build applied to the workplace.

Renovating offices in Paris means running two projects in one: a property project — floors, services, compliance — and a company project — uses, image, the experience of the teams. The classic arrangement separates them: an architect or space planner on one side, building firms on the other, and the occupier in the middle to arbitrate. Design & build brings them together: as a general contractor, we carry design and execution under a single contract, with a committed price and a contractual delivery date. On our office project for an I.T. company — 270 m² rethought and delivered in four months — it was this unity that made it possible to redefine how the floor is used while holding the move-in calendar: every design choice was approved together with its cost and its execution time.

Rethinking uses, not just surfaces

An office project rarely begins with a question of building works; it begins with a question of organisation. Flex-office or assigned desks, the share of collaborative spaces, enclosed meeting rooms or acoustic pods, a tea point or a genuine living space: we lead this reflection with you — and with your architect where relevant — before drawing a single partition. On the I.T. workplace, the space was entirely rethought to ease exchanges, mobility and daily life at work for the teams — the renovation was merely the built translation of that strategy.

Acoustics, the real subject of flex-office

Open floors almost always fail in the same place: noise. Ceiling treatment, full-height partitions around meeting rooms, absorbent finishes, screens between desks, confidentiality pods: acoustics are designed upstream, with measurable targets for each type of space, not patched up after move-in. It is one of the areas where integrating design and execution gains the most — every acoustic solution is priced and technically validated before it is drawn.

Working in occupied premises.

Your teams cannot stop because the floor is being transformed. A significant share of office renovations is carried out in occupied premises, and that changes the whole method: phasing by zones with successive team moves, noisy or dust-generating operations deferred to evenings, nights or weekends, protected and signposted walkways, absolute continuity of the critical networks — I.T., servers, security. This mode of operation is planned to the day and coordinated with your internal teams; it is a skill of project leadership as much as of building work, at the heart of our coordination of all trades. Each phase is the subject of a progress review shared with your management: you know at all times which zone is switching over, when, and what your staff will see on Monday morning when they arrive.

ERP, accessibility, fire safety: compliance first.

As soon as premises receive the public — patients, customers, visitors — they become an ERP (a public-access building under French regulations), with its train of obligations: accessibility for people with reduced mobility (routes, sanitary facilities, passage widths), fire safety (escape routes, smoke extraction, alarm, fire-rated materials), regulatory files and, depending on the category, review by a safety commission. Our reference in the matter: a 210 m² medical office in the 11th arrondissement, brought up to ERP5 standard for public access, with eleven artisans coordinated and delivered in four months. Compliance was not treated there as a constraint added at the end of design, but as an input to the project — the only way to avoid unpleasant surprises at opening.

References that speak for themselves.

Three recent projects sum up our practice of the Parisian workplace. The offices of the house of Dior: 380 m² fitted out in four months, under a confidentiality agreement — we will show no more than that, and that is precisely the point: discretion is part of the service. The I.T. workplace: 270 m² designed and built as design & build, four months, twelve artisans, a complete redefinition of how the workspace is used. The medical office: 210 m² to ERP5 standard, eleven artisans, four months, for an establishment receiving the public. Three different programmes, one same mechanism: a single point of contact, a budget held, a date honoured. The whole is to be discovered in our portfolio.

Budget and lead times.

The ranges observed in the Parisian office market echo those of residential work: €500 to €900 per m² for a refresh (paint, floors, lighting), €1,200 to €1,800 per m² for a full renovation including the technical services — HVAC, electrical, networks — and €2,000 to €3,500 per m² for a high-end fit-out with custom millwork. As for the calendar, our recent references come down to one figure: four months, whether for 380, 270 or 210 m². These deadlines are contractually committed — a decisive parameter when a lease expiry, an opening or a move dictates the date. For a precise estimate of your floor, describe your project to us: an answer within 48 hours.