Office design and fit-out · since 1992
Offices worth coming in for.
Business Interiors has planned, designed and fitted out workplaces since 1992, from Plymouth and Exeter to Oxford and the City of London. Hybrid working has changed what an office is for. The question now is what yours needs to do, and how to get there without wasting space or budget.
1992
Founded in Plymouth, supplying office furniture before adding interior design and fit-out.
120+
Organisations worked with, from Barclays and BAE Systems to the British Red Cross and Devon Wildlife Trust.
40%
More efficient space for the British Red Cross in London, found through space planning rather than a move.
Exeter to EC3
Projects from Devon and Cornwall to Bristol, Oxford, the Midlands and the City of London.
Previous work
Workplaces designed for the people in them
How we work
Get the brief right and everything else gets easier.
Most office projects that go wrong do so before anyone picks up a drill: the wrong amount of space, a budget set without a plan, a design that answers last year’s questions. Three decades of projects taught us to spend time on the early decisions.
01
Understand
How your people actually use the building: occupancy across the week, how meetings happen, where the friction is. Hybrid working moved the numbers, and a short utilisation study shows by how much.
02
Plan
Space plans, test fits and realistic budgets before you commit to a lease, a landlord’s offer or a contractor. Most of the money on a project is won or lost at this stage.
03
Design
Interiors that carry your brand, support both focused and collaborative work, meet the regulations and still look right in five years’ time.
04
Deliver
Design and build, a phased refurbishment or a relocation, organised so the business keeps working while the work happens.
The workplace now
The office has a different job now.
Hybrid working
Most offices were planned for every desk to be used every day. Now the peak tends to fall mid-week and the rest of the week is quieter. That changes the desk count, and it changes what people come in for: places to meet, to concentrate and to make calls.
Sustainability
The lowest-carbon fit-out is often the one you do not rip out. Reusing partitions, furniture and finishes saves money and embodied carbon. Minimum energy-efficiency standards already apply to commercial lettings, so check a building’s EPC before you sign.
Technology
Meetings now include people who are not in the room. Cameras, audio, room booking and occupancy sensors need planning alongside the furniture and the power, not adding at the end.
Wellbeing
Daylight, fresh air, acoustics and a choice of places to work. These are the things people notice every day, and they are far easier to get right at design stage than to fix later.
Great workplace design can transform working life, and help organisations achieve what they set out to do.
The belief behind every Business Interiors project
Previous clients include
Law firms, insurers, universities, charities, engineers and public bodies.
- Allen & Overy
- AstraZeneca
- Atkins
- BAE Systems
- Balfour Beatty Workplace
- Barclays
- Brewin Dolphin
- British Red Cross
- Brittany Ferries
- Cornwall Council
- Devon & Cornwall Police
- Devon Wildlife Trust
- EDF
- English Heritage
- Experian
- Foot Anstey
- General Electric
- Hargreaves Lansdown
- Jacobs
- Knight Frank
- Land Registry
- Michelmores
- Ministry of Defence
- Network Rail
- NHS
- QinetiQ
- Riverford
- UK Hydrographic Office
- University of Bristol
- University of Oxford
- Urban Splash
- Wrigley
Insights
Practical thinking on offices.
Guides and opinion from people who have spent a long time inside other people’s workplaces.
Flexible working is here to stay, and that’s a good thing · Opinion
Ten things to consider before you start an office project · Guide
Brand, culture and the workplace · White paper
Interaction and collaboration in the office · White paper
Start a conversation
Planning a move, a refurbishment or a rethink?
Tell us about the space, the people who use it and the date you are working to. You will get a straight answer about what it needs, what it is likely to cost and what to do first.