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Commercial · Product family C-01

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Modular commercial buildings answer to a business before they answer to a street. Nine are published here, and the question that sorts them is what the building has to do.

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The sector · 01

Sort them by the job, not by the floor area

Nine buildings are published here and the useful question is not how large yours should be. It is what the building has to do: sell a development, host a visitor and explain something, run as a workplace, display a product, feed people, gather residents, or stand for the length of an event and then come down. Each of those is a different building with a different plan.

Answer that first and most of the specification follows. A building that closes a sale is planned around a route and a moment; a building people work in every day is planned around the ordinary hour. Both can be beautiful, and a plan drawn for one of them will disappoint anybody trying to use it for the other.

The sector · 02

How long the building has to stand where it stands

The second question sorts them again: is this building permanent, or does it belong to a campaign? A sales building serves one phase of a development and then wants to move to the next site. An exhibition building has a short run. A workplace or an amenity building is meant to outlast everybody who commissioned it.

That answer changes the design rather than the marketing. A building intended to be taken down and re-erected has its joints, its services and its finishes decided with that in mind from the first drawing, and it is worth deciding early, because retrofitting the intention to a building already fixed together is the expensive way to learn it.

The sector · 03

The ground it stands on, and who is already using it

Commercial buildings rarely get an empty plot. A forecourt with customers on it, a campus with staff walking through it, a mall service yard with deliveries every hour: the ground is in use, and what it will let you do is the real constraint on the design. That is settled with the site owner and your survey before a plan is worth drawing.

It is also the reason the method suits this group of buildings. Components are made while your approvals and your ground works are still running, and the assembly that follows is short enough to fit inside the window a working site can give you. The sixty to ninety day programme is the group’s record, and it is qualified building by building.

The sector · 04

A brand-ready building, and everything behind it

Most of these buildings carry somebody’s brand, and that is coordination rather than decoration. Signage positions, lighting, the glazing line, the entrance and the way a facade meets a car park all have to be settled with your brand team while they are still drawings, alongside the services, fire strategy, access control and utilities that sit behind them.

Fit-out is the other half. Whether the counters, joinery, displays and furniture sit inside our order or beside it is agreed at the start on every one of these routes, because that split governs who freezes the layout and when. It is written down rather than assumed, and it appears in the quotation as scope.

The sector · 05

One method under all nine, and what we do not claim

Each of the nine is a steel frame carrying manufactured panels screwed down dry, with a roof build-up laid over them, sent flat and put together in position. Nothing habitable travels. On a trading site, a working campus or a mall forecourt that is the difference between building around your customers and closing the place to build.

Not one of these nine has a sheet set behind it yet. Six designs across the site do, and each remaining design joins them as it closes. Against its own name the group can show a hundred projects and more, sixty to ninety days on site, and buildings warranted for twenty-five years, all restated when we quote yours. Nothing here carries a price.

Issued index

Nine buildings for selling, working and gathering

01Modular Marketing OfficesThe working office on a development site, for a team selling and running a project from the ground it is being built onC-02

02Prefab Experience CentresFor a brand with something that has to be understood rather than glanced at, where the route through the building is the productC-03

03Sales Galleries & Model HomesThe campaign building that closes the sale, planned to be dismantled and re-erected at the next phase or the next siteC-04

04Premium Modular OfficesA workplace meant to last, judged on the ordinary Tuesday rather than on the opening, for a company building on its own landC-05

05Premium Branded Retail Kiosks & Micro BoutiquesSmall-format retail in a high-footfall place, where the brand has minutes and very little floor to make its caseC-06

06Modular Showrooms & Retail PavilionsFor a product that has to be seen properly — light, height and circulation planned around what is on displayC-07

07Premium Prefab Cafes & RestaurantsA serviced food and drink building, where the kitchen, the services and the licence shape the plan before the seating doesC-08

08Developer Clubhouses & Amenity BuildingsThe lasting amenity anchor of a residential development, handed to residents and judged by them long after the sales suite has goneC-09

09Event & Exhibition PavilionsA building with a date at both ends, designed to stand for its run and then come down without leaving a markC-10

Signature designs · Commercial

See how setting and programme shape commercial buildings where brand and operations meet.

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Modular Marketing Offices

The working office on a development site, for a team selling and running a project from the ground it is being built on

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Sheet C-03Size pending

Prefab Experience Centres

For a brand with something that has to be understood rather than glanced at, where the route through the building is the product

Reference C-03COMMERCIALGA pending

Sheet C-04Size pending

Sales Galleries & Model Homes

The campaign building that closes the sale, planned to be dismantled and re-erected at the next phase or the next site

Reference C-04COMMERCIALGA pending

Sheet C-05Size pending

Premium Modular Offices

A workplace meant to last, judged on the ordinary Tuesday rather than on the opening, for a company building on its own land

Reference C-05COMMERCIALGA pending

Sheet C-06Size pending

Premium Branded Retail Kiosks & Micro Boutiques

Small-format retail in a high-footfall place, where the brand has minutes and very little floor to make its case

Reference C-06COMMERCIALGA pending

Sheet C-07Size pending

Modular Showrooms & Retail Pavilions

For a product that has to be seen properly — light, height and circulation planned around what is on display

Reference C-07COMMERCIALGA pending

Sheet C-08Size pending

Premium Prefab Cafes & Restaurants

A serviced food and drink building, where the kitchen, the services and the licence shape the plan before the seating does

Reference C-08COMMERCIALGA pending

Sheet C-09Size pending

Developer Clubhouses & Amenity Buildings

The lasting amenity anchor of a residential development, handed to residents and judged by them long after the sales suite has gone

Reference C-09COMMERCIALGA pending

Sheet C-10Size pending

Event & Exhibition Pavilions

A building with a date at both ends, designed to stand for its run and then come down without leaving a mark

Reference C-10COMMERCIALGA pending

Questions

Questions to settle around commercial buildings where brand and operations meet.

Which of the nine is the building we need?

Answer two questions and it usually names itself. What does the building have to do — sell, explain, work, display, feed, gather or exhibit? And how long does it have to stand where it stands? A campaign building and a permanent one are different designs even when they hold exactly the same activity.

Can a building be taken down and used again on the next site?

Only if it was drawn that way, which is why it is a first-drawing decision rather than a later hope. Say at the briefing that the building has a second life, and the joints, the services, the finishes and the base are decided so it can be dismantled and re-erected rather than demolished.

Does the order include signage, fit-out and furniture?

Only what your order says, and the split is agreed before anything is priced. The building, its envelope, services routes and finishes are the default scope; counters, joinery, displays, signage and loose furniture may sit within the same order or alongside it. Whichever it is, it is written down as scope rather than assumed.

Can it be built on a site that is already trading?

Yes, and the method is chosen for it. Everything reaches the plot flat and banded on ordinary vehicles and goes together in position, so nothing habitable has to cross a forecourt, a campus or a mall service yard. Access, working hours and delivery windows are settled with the site owner before we write a programme.

Why is there no price on these pages?

Because a commercial building is quoted against a site, a date and a scope split, and none of the three is known from a web page. Access, ground, size, finish level, the fit-out boundary and the programme all move the figure. A number published in advance would describe a different project.

What has to be settled before you can price it?

The use, the site with a survey where one exists, the date you have to open on, the fit-out split you want, whether the building is permanent or belongs to a campaign, and who is running the programme. Those six settle the scope, and everything after them is design rather than negotiation.

Tell us the job and the ground

Say what the building has to do, where it goes and when it has to open, and the sheets for the nearest design that has been drawn come back with the answer.

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