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D.J. McGauley & Associates Inc. is your Office Space Planning, Renovations and Relocation Project Management Company of choice. Please contact us to arrange a no-obligation site meeting. By the end of that meeting, you will know all that would be required to make your project a successful reality.
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D.J. McGauley & Associates Inc. is your Office Space Planning, Renovations and Relocation Project Management Company of Choice for the Toronto, GTA and surrounding areas. If a renovation or relocation of your 2,000 – 25,000 sq.ft. office space is in your plans, contact us to arrange a no-obligation site meeting. We guarantee that by the end of that meeting, you will know all that would be required to make your office renovation/relocation project a successful reality.
Call 416-239-1931, email [email protected] or visit our website for more information and to complete our contact form.
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Relocation Services
We manage all the following details so our clients can enjoy a stress-free relocation with minimal disruption to their day to day operations.
All site visits to confirm building logistics
On-site supervision on move day
Confirm access with property management
Provide WSIB and Certificate of Insurance
Take a detailed furniture inventory
Move planning
Moving seminar to staff
Ordering all supplies including moving bins, labels, IT bags etc.
Furniture installations
Cutover of communication suppliers
Disposal
If you are looking to relocate, you can trust the company that has been successfully relocating other companies since 1992. Call us today at 416-239-1931.
If you have seasonal staff, and you need to store the furniture and files during the off-season – we can help.
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Storage Solutions – Need Extra Space?
If you have to store files, furniture or any miscellaneous items and don’t have the space in your current office, we can help. With climate controlled, secure storage, we will take care of your excess content and keep an accurate inventory for you so you know what’s there.If you are renovating your office and need temporary off site storage, we can help. We will break down your furniture, pack your content and store it. Then, when you need it, we will deliver and place your furniture as requested.
If you have seasonal staff, and you need to store the furniture and files during the off-season – we can help.
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5 Common Mistakes Companies Make When Designing Their Offices
Planning
for the correct amount of storage
Understand what you are storing, why you
are storing it and make sure it’s not just a catch all place for all the
indecisions your staff make. Storage is too often used to conceal clutter.
Effective storage creates efficiencies while creating an environment that is
both esthetically appealing and practical. Different storage solutions can provide time
saving functionality that boosts productivity and frees up space for other
office uses.
Getting
employee input
The right office design will help make your business
run better.
Involve employees in deciding how the space will look
and feel. Employees often have insights into what an operation needs and may
have that wasn’t obvious before but may prove valuable. Their involvement in
decision-making gives them a voice in something meaningful which increases
engagement and improves performance.
Talk to your employees and ask how the old space has
worked. Which features have been good or bad, and why do they feel that way?
Don’t assume the old layout is necessarily the best to help drive business.
Also consider letting employees name common areas such as conference rooms.
That way, they can put their stamp on the space.
If you have the time and resources, consider setting
up some common work areas, each decorated in one of the color schemes most
popular among employees. They can then try the different settings to see how
they feel about them.
Besides giving employees a voice in the new office’s
aesthetics, encourage them to discuss practicalities, too. Ask for a wish list
of items for the new space, such as a coffee bar or certain type of storage,
which could help make work a better place to be.
Plan
for growth
It’s hard
to know the future. Often, we are planning to grow, but just how much, how many
more staff and what’s the time frame.
When you’re designing your office with growth in
mind, it’s important to look at ways in which space can be reconfigured to
accommodate differing team sizes.
It’s crucial to incorporate adaptable, flexible spaces into your present
office design. These spaces can be used for ad-hoc meetings or general
relaxation areas for existing staff but can also be re purposed as more formal
workspace when necessary or for events and presentations.
Think carefully about your office furniture too. Once you have
invested all your money in your latest technology or spent a fortune on the
best talent, it might be tempting to skimp on the furniture budget.
Not
enough open and/or private spaces
One of the most significant decisions in developing a company’s culture
relates to the division of office space. Open space, division into offices,
team-based division, mixed offices, a small or a big kitchen – each one of
these decisions will affect the way the company functions.
In theory, an open space office sounds like a great idea – an open
atmosphere, accessibility for everyone and, of course, an optimal utilization
of space. Most open spaces are usually quite noisy and are not that conducive
to actual discussions. Many people are easily distracted by every phone
call, joke or noise around them.
Acoustics
New open concept designs are often filled with hard
surfaces like polished concrete, open ceilings and lots of glass, that give a
wonderful open feeling to spaces. But there is downside – increased noise
levels.
When noise enters the workspace, creativity and
productivity go out the window. That’s why manufactures of office
furniture have thrown themselves into designing elements that limit and absorb
excessive noise, creating pleasant workspaces that improve performance. The trend for open-plan
designs, particularly in new workspaces, has put sound at the forefront of
design.
Another way of combating noise in new open-plan workspaces is by incorporating dividing elements which provide privacy and encourage concentration. There are different wall panels which offer solutions that provide contemporary designs with the possibility of personalization, as well as improving acoustics. From acoustical wall treatments to innovative furniture options there are many innovative solutions to improving the sound levels in any office environment.
D.J. McGauley & Associates Inc. is your Office Space Planning, Renovations and Relocation Project Management Company of Choice for the Toronto, GTA and surrounding areas. If a renovation or relocation of your 2,000 – 25,000 sq.ft. office space is in your plans, contact us to arrange a no-obligation site meeting. We guarantee that by the end of that meeting, you will know all that would be required to make your office renovation/relocation project a successful reality.
Call 416-239-1931, email [email protected] or visit our website for more information and to complete our contact form.
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Space Planning & Design in Toronto
At D. J. McGauley and Associates we maximize a company’s space while controlling costs with an eye toward minimizing disruption to regular business operations. We work with clients to bring together design, affordability and strong project management. Our work isn’t complete with the design process. Our project management team can manage your construction project from start to finish and ensure that your furniture fits your requirements. From initial consultation, to design and execution, our office space planning services will create your ideal work environment. Contact us and we’ll give you your space.
Call us today at 416-239-1931 and let us help you turn your ideas into reality.
We welcome your feedback and would love to hear from you. Call 416-239-1931 or email [email protected]
•   Please note we also offer short term and long term, secured storage solutions. Whether you are short of space or need to remove content temporarily during construction we have secure, temperature controlled storage solutions at competitive rates.
•   Ask us about a new or used furniture solution. We have access to a wide range of suppliers for every budget range.
As much as the open office space is a preferred design with most of today’s companies, certain office activities still require a bit of privacy… or the opportunity to get loud without causing too much distraction for fellow employees. As a result, both furniture and office space design companies have come up with a variety of creative solutions to create “privacy” without compromising the open-concept design. We’ve covered a few of them in previous blogs — office pods, partial living walls, Everblock®and Tetris® furniture and walls, use and placement of storage cabinets…but here are a couple more options an organization can take into consideration:
The Rotating Office Screens – A similar concept to vertical blinds, the rotating office screen is actually a series of double-panel slats, each of which rotates on its own pointed base plate. Each slat and base unit can easily be oriented into specific formations in relation to the other slat-base units to create an interesting decor within the open office space design while in “open” position. Once a private meeting is required, the same slats can be turned to the “closed” position, instantly creating a semi or fully private meeting area.
Acoustic Office Screens – Not entirely new to the office space design world, acoustic office screen panels are now available in a variety of sizes, colours and shapes to offer flexibility and interesting decor to an ever-changing open office space environment. Each panel is designed to either stand on casters or on its own unique base, so they can be easily positioned to either add a design to a main wall or create a semi-private space for individual or collaborative activities. In some cases, the panel shapes are irregular but can interlink to make a visually stimulating wall design or collaboration area. In other cases, the walls are stackable or can easily “nest” into one another, allowing for easy storage. What is even more advantageous is the acoustic office screens are made with soft materials designed to absorb sound, so they help lessen sound disturbances in an open office space environment.
The best part about these solutions is that they not only provide a “privacy” option to the open-concept office space design, but they also enhance flexibility within an open office space design.
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DJ Mcgauley and Associates Inc. is your Office Space Planning, Renovations and Relocation Project Management Company of choice. If a renovation or relocation of your office space is in your plans, please contact us to arrange a no-obligation site meeting. By the end of that meeting, you will know all that would be required to make your office renovation/relocation project a successful reality.
Call 416-239-1931, email [email protected] or visit our website for more information and to complete our contact form.
It is amazing to see how vastly different meeting spaces are these days compared to what they were years ago. There was a time when business meetings took place in an enclosed rectangular-shaped room with one rectangular-shaped window to the outside world, a long solid rectangular-shaped table and several hi-backed rectangular-shaped office chairs. Now, with emphasis on encouraging collaboration, innovation, and creativity in an open-spaced environment, and incorporating the cafe or home decor themes into office spaces, meeting spaces have gone through several phases to take on entirely new forms. A few of those phases are listed below:
Phase 1: No Longer Rectangular
Enclosed meeting spaces designed to maintain an element of confidentiality are no longer restricted to the four walls of a rectangular-shaped room. With the introduction of office pods, meeting spaces have taken on dome, beehive, cylinder, egg and other interesting geometric shapes. Add in the home-decor theme and you’ve got the greenhouse, living room and large kitchen-inspired meeting spaces within the office space.
BBC North at Salford Quays. Photo credit Craig Holmes.
Phase 2: No longer EnclosedÂ
Then there are meeting spaces that are relatively open or semi-private spaces. Designed more for encouraging collaboration, these meeting spaces typically have partial walls or partitions, and are open at least on two sides. Some of these collaborative meeting spaces take on the form of a booth, similar to what you would see at a restaurant. Others adopt more of a picture-framed look. More recent designs combine the booth with the framed looked by extending the back rest of the booth to form a roof frame over its potential users.
Phase 3: No more walls
Finally, there are those meeting spaces that are just out in the open. Identified by the furniture placement and possibly an area rug, these types of meeting spaces aim to promote collaboration without tainting the open space office design in any way.
The most unique meeting space gaining popularity is the amphitheatre-designed meeting space. Unlike any other meeting space design, the amphitheatre meeting space is literally the large and wide staircase found in the prominent area of an office space. Why is this design gaining popularity? Because it is familiar for the younger workforce and recent graduates entering the workforce. (By the way, designers are now looking to schools to see how those designs and layouts could be incorporated into the office space design).
The future phases of meeting spaces may incorporate more geometric shapes or adopt nature’s most common meeting spaces. Regardless, meeting spaces will always play an integral role in facilitating the future success of businesses.
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DJ Mcgauley and Associates Inc. is your Office Space Planning, Renovations and Relocation Project Management Company of choice. If a renovation or relocation of your office space is in your plans, please contact us to arrange a no-obligation site meeting. By the end of that meeting, you will know all that would be required to make your office renovation/relocation project a successful reality.
Call 416-239-1931, email [email protected] or visit our website for more information and to complete our contact form.
wall or create a semi-private space for individual or collaborative activities. In some cases, the panel shapes are irregular but can interlink to make a visually stimulating wall design or collaboration area. In other cases, the walls are stackable or can easily “nest” into one another, allowing for easy storage. What is even more advantageous is the acoustic office screens are made with soft materials designed to absorb sound, so they help lessen sound disturbances in an open office space environment.
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