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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.
Call us today at 416-239-1931 or contact us and save value real estate space and money!
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.
If creative thinking, big-idea generation and collaboration are strong elements you wish to introduce or enhance within your organization’s corporate culture, don’t allow yourself or your collaborative team to hit a wall. Instead let them write on it!
Designers have recently developed wall coverings that will allow your team to write on your walls without compromising the professional image of your business.
Introducing the dry erase wall.
Already existing in newer, trendier conference rooms and hotels, the dry erase wall can be created in one of two ways. One is with the application of specially engineered gloss paint, available in a variety of colours, which dries into a hard surface, so hard that dry erase markers and erasers can be used on it. The second is a dry erase vinyl wall covering which is applied to your existing wall much like a peel and stick wallpaper. Both applications are fairly economical.
If dry erase walls don’t fit your corporate image or culture, then you can consider turning your walls into chalkboard walls.
Similar to the dry erase wall, the chalkboard wall can be applied either in paint form or as a vinyl peel and stick wall covering. The paint is more of a specially engineered flat paint that when dry allows one to use a variety of chalks and chalk erasers on it. Both the paint and vinyl applications are available in black or green.
Both types of walls have their advantages.
For one, they are limitless and flexible in size and colour. Your dry erase or chalkboard walls can be as high, wide and long as your existing walls. They are available in a variety of colours so they can easily blend in with your corporate colours. These wall coverings can also be applied on multiple walls, which could encourage your team the think big enough to fill your walls with new, creative and innovative ideas anytime the inspiration hits and anywhere the wall coverings are applied.
In addition, both types of wall coverings can be specially engineered to have multiple uses. Both the dry erase and chalkboard paint and vinyl wall coverings also come in magnetic form. This means that when applied, the walls not only can be written on, but magnet objects can also be applied to the walls to help emphasize and idea or concept. Furthermore, dry erase walls in lower gloss forms can also serve as projection screens, taking presentations to a whole new level.
So, take creativity and idea generation to a new horizon. Consider adding dry erase or chalkboard wall coverings to your office design.
As many companies try to balance the costs of their corporate relocation, office design often takes a back seat to other priorities and a strict budget. At D.J. McGauley & Associates, we understand that the expenses of a corporate relocation can easily balloon up to disproportionate heights, so we make it a point to give fair prices and helpful budget breakdowns without sacrificing the quality and efficiency of your move or your newly designed office space.
In our years of experience, we have nailed down the best and ways to make your office space design both modern and practical. Here are just a few tips and tricks:
Go for bold accents. Offices with neutral colors are a thing of the past. Choose office furniture and even office supplies in bold colors, with the psychology of color in mind. Purple means success, green represents renewal, yellow signifies warmth, and so on. Why settle for drab and boring when you can go for exciting color accents that make your office stand out?
Go clean and professional. If bold colors do not suit your corporate image, you will likely choose to stick to monochrome. This can be accomplished without inducing a sterile or boring “feel” simply by choosing paint and purchasing office furniture from gradients within the same color block—from walls to computers to chairs. For example, a neutral grey selection – from charcoal to a light grey with a slight tinge of blue. Then add accent pieces in black or white. This scheme will make your office look clean and high-profile without any dullness.
Decorate the office. It doesn’t have to be all work, now does it? Skip the overdone inspirational posters and instead display some great art work in the office, and you’d get some heads nodding in approval. Keep in mind that fewer large pieces almost always make a bigger visual impact than many smaller pieces placed on every available wall surface.
Is most of your business local? Make sure to do some research to find a new and upcoming local artist.
Go for partitions that free up space. There are many partitions of different styles that will give the impression that there’s bigger space in the office than there actually is, without sacrificing privacy. Luckily for you, we have the ability to secure office partitions, office equipment and systems furniture to fit virtually any budget!
Does the office layout have any impact on the productivity in the workplace? Decidedly so. At a time where social collaboration and information sharing are the buzzwords in corporations, especially here in Toronto, the open space interior office design is being hailed as some kind of a 21st century corporate savior. But it’s not that easy. Cubicles for a design space have not entirely lost their point, and some open workspace companies have in fact deemed it better to revert to the former.
An open workspace, often praised as innovative and flexible, allows for easy interaction and facilitates creativity. The premise is, without the stifling cubicles, the hierarchical walls give way to free rein, enabling staff to work in teams and collaborate with each other. Ultimately, employees produce work not only at a faster rate but also at a better quality.
Needless to say, the open office space has worked wonders for SAP’s cloud computing teams. With everyone sitting at an open environment, employees can share ideas freely and without inhibition.
While the concept may have worked for one of SAP’s teams, where the employee count is relatively small and the job requires continually squeezing one’s creative juices, there’s evidence that it might not work at every organization. TIME published an article in 2012 about the demons that hound an open office. This includes unbearable office noise, lack of privacy, and increased employee stress. There’s a study to back this up, and it’s been published in the Journal of Applied Psychology.
This is why you might not want to totally rule out cubicles. Workspace innovators sometimes call them demoralizing, but it does provide a number of advantages that the open workspace does not. For one, it offers that valuable personal space. There will also be more space to stack documents and diagrams for easy reference. And you won’t deny, it’s much easier to focus when no one’s staring at you from across the table.
Ultimately, your choice of interior office design should depend on the nature of your company or product, the number of employees, and, well, what your employees think about it.
As many companies try to balance the costs of their corporate relocation, office design often takes a back seat to other priorities and a strict budget. At D.J. McGauley & Associates, we understand that the expenses of a corporate relocation can easily balloon up to disproportionate heights, so we make it a point to give fair prices and helpful budget breakdowns without sacrificing the quality and efficiency of your move or your newly designed office space.
Does the office layout have any impact on the productivity in the workplace? Decidedly so. At a time where social collaboration and information sharing are the buzzwords in corporations, especially here in Toronto, the open space interior office design is being hailed as some kind of a 21st century corporate savior. But it’s not that easy. Cubicles for a design space have not entirely lost their point, and some open workspace companies have in fact deemed it better to revert to the former.
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