Improve Your Workplace With a Building Strip Out

Office buildings and other workplaces can often lack inspiration and contribute to a lack of productivity among workers. How can you improve your workplace and make sure your employees feel motivated at work? An office or building strip out is a great way to completely revamp the workplace and create a design that works in harmony with your team.

Here’s why you should consider a building strip out for your workplace.



What do strip out services include?

Strip out services include demolishing and renovating the inside of a building. If a building is in need of significant modification, it is often more beneficial to completely remove the interior and rebuild it from scratch. This gives you the opportunity to change the structure, design and furniture to create a more beneficial space that fulfils its purpose.

Strip out services will ensure your building is effectively cleared of any interior fittings that are no longer needed. They will then be appropriately disposed of so you are left with a completely fresh building ready for renovation.

A team of specialists may provide the following strip out services:

-      Removal of internal walls, floor covering and other non-structural components

-      Removing asbestos

-      Clearance of water and plastics

-      Recycling plastics, metals, wood and other suitable materials

-      Removing fixtures and fittings

How is productivity impacted by the workplace environment?

The workplace environment will have a huge impact on the way your employees feel throughout the day and will ultimately impact their performance, satisfaction, social relations and health. If your workplace is uninspiring and bland, it will be hard to have the motivation to work hard at your job and feel good about turning up to work every day. Environmental conditions have a much greater impact on employee morale and job satisfaction and will ultimately affect productivity.

While we are capable of getting work done in environments that aren’t best suited for our well-being, it doesn’t mean that we can’t substantially improve our work environments to better improve morale and productivity. This is where an office strip out comes in. You can completely transform your workplace to benefit you and your team, both in the short and long term.

Here are the benefits of an office strip out.

Boost employee engagement

Creating a space that allows employees to collaborate and work freely will massively improve your building’s workspace. You can do this in several ways.

Add collaborative spaces

Many offices simply work by having many cubicles or desks set up next to each other in one large open space. There may be different areas in the room such as meeting rooms or separate spaces for different teams. However, it’s often much more beneficial to create areas that allow for creativity, open idea exchange and collaborative planning. Once you have stripped out the building’s interior, you will have a chance to re-build the space with areas where employees can work face-to-face or feed off of each other’s energy. This allows employees to inspire one another rather than feeling like they can’t communicate in the workplace.

Ensure the space is organised

When putting together a plan for a brand new office layout, make sure you put time and effort into considering the best way to do it. Make sure that the space makes sense and that there is harmony within the layout. When renovating, you can decide where you would like certain teams and their desks to sit and how to avoid clutter and potential distraction. An office strip out can keep space and employees organised and focused.

Increase natural lighting

Natural lighting is one of the best ways to boost engagement and productivity. It’s one of the easiest ways to improve a workspace as you can often just change the blinds you have in the office. Once you have had the interior strip out contractors in to do the work, you can start to revamp your space with new windows or even skylights.

Improve safety

There are many workplace standards you must abide by and these are constantly changing. Some older workplaces and offices can be very outdated and therefore may pose a range of health and safety risks. As an employer, it’s important you abide by these safety standards in order to keep your employees safe.

This may often include completely removing the interior of the office and re-building from scratch to ensure that the building is safe. For example, if a building contains asbestos, it is no longer safe to work in and you will need professional strip out contractors to complete the removal of the asbestos safely. This could also mean things such as boxes of documents causing a fire hazard, so it should be removed and proper storage options should be added. This will also ensure the building has unobstructed emergency exits.

Use space effectively

Renting an office or workspace is expensive, especially if a lot of your team work from home. By completing a strip out and renovation, you will create a space that makes employees excited to come into the office and this will help ensure you make the most of your money. Disorganised spaces that aren’t used are a waste of money and can mean your company isn’t making the profit it is capable of.

Transforming your office with more desk space, meeting rooms or recreational areas will ensure you make the most of every square foot of your office. With a space that has been optimised for employees, their workday becomes easier and more enjoyable and they are able to use their time more productively.

Attract top talent and clients

By renovating your office you can improve working conditions and ensure the very best talent and clients are attracted to your company. When you run business meetings or interviews, people will learn a lot based on how your workspace looks. If you are unable to offer workspaces that are comfortable and promote a strong work ethic, people may be put off working with you.

A modern-looking office helps improve client experience and ensure they trust that your company can do the job well. Your space is a reflection of the quality of your work, products and services. You may find that clients are picky about even the finest details and use them as a factor in their decision to work with you. Therefore, it’s important to ensure your space reflects the services you have to offer. A stunning office will do more to attract major talent and reflect your company with a trustworthy image.

Office Strip Out Services in Scotland With Gowrie Contracts

Are you looking for professional strip out services to wipe the slate clean? At Gowrie Contracts, we can do just that. As more and more people head back to the office, companies are starting to realise how outdated their office is. Rather than making your employees work in crowded, disorganised spaces, start fresh with an office strip out. Our strip out contractors have over 30 years of experience and can work with all sizes and complexities to ensure the project is done to a high standard.

We complete interior demolition works while maintaining existing structures so that your building doesn’t have to be built from scratch. This saves you money while still offering a fantastic office renovation that can promote and improve productivity among your employees. As the go-to strip out contractors in Scotland, our priority is to develop your project as safely as possible starting with removing what you no longer need.

We also work hard to ensure our work is sustainable. We aim to reuse and recycle as much of the materials as possible and mitigate the negative impact on the environment that is caused by some strip out projects. We follow the latest health and safety regulations to keep you and your team safe.

As well as this, we offer asbestos removal, land remediation, demolition and reclamation to help your property or land thrive. To learn more about our services or to get started on your project, contact our office strip out contractors today.