Commercial Shell & Fit-Out
A ground-floor retail and office unit taken from bare shell to occupied space.
- Location
- Harare, Zimbabwe
- Category
- Commercial
- Scope
- Shell to fit-out · Approx. 180m² · Retail frontage with office to rear
- Indicative timeline
- Typically 14–18 weeks
- Services
- Building PlansProject Cost EstimatesCommercial ConstructionCeiling & PartitioningElectrical WorksProject Supervision
A tenant takes a bare shell and needs it trading. Every week before opening is rent paid against no revenue, so the programme matters as much as the specification.
Work is sequenced so the trades that block others (electrical reticulation, ceiling grid, partitioning) run first and in parallel rather than in series.
Long-lead items are identified and ordered in week one, before they become the reason the opening slips.
Costs are separated into landlord works and tenant works up front, so neither party pays twice for the same item.
Strip out and make good; set out partitions.
Electrical and data reticulation, HVAC provision.
Partitioning, ceilings and bulkheads.
Floor finishes, joinery, shopfront and signage.