Interior Design

It all begins with the client... Simple words but they certainly touch the essence of our vision on design. Getting to know the organization, its activities, research collaboration relationships and analyze facts and figures. It delivers no-nonsense information, the functional basis of any assignment. However, in the interaction between designer and client we strive for more, much more.

In our projects we are always searching for the click with our client. Working together on design issues and understanding the client and its ambition. To review this ambition on technical feasibility, within the financial borders and time schedule. Above all avoiding any surprises in this area, but going surprisingly far in the pursuit of perfection. Gradually forms a story about identity, emotion, perception, the soul of the project.

Each client has its own story, its own design. There are no standard solutions. With extensive attention for innovation and sustainability, we are always finding a new and unique balance between what is possible and what should be possible. We are going one step further by nature. Always professional, sometimes intuitive, but always resulting in an inspiring work environment.

Project Management

Creating your accommodation as it was intended, that is our specialty.  In other words, having a good insight in your strategic considerations, understanding your objectives regarding the new accommodation and effectively managing the implementation.

Our project managers are experienced in steering for details and quality. We minimize risks and we make sure the works are being performed compliant with laws and legislation, financial targets and the agreed time schedule. Based on your quality terms we make a pre-selection of  reliable, professional suppliers. A quite strong role as a director, who is preparing in detail any decision that you have to make. It is after all your accommodation.

Also in project management independence and transparency are key conditions. We set up the project budget in detail, and agree on it with you. Since we only invoice the hours worked, we don’t have any interest in the total volume of the budget. However, we do negotiate the price in your best interest and obtain discounts for the benefit of your budget: transparent and controllable.

Management on site

With the design well detailed, the purchasing done professionally and the time schedule correctly matched, it is time for implementing the fit out.  During the implementation our focus for detail is sharper than ever. Our site managers accurately plan, steer, control and correct the fit out process. They don’t leave until the very last points have been resolved. Simply striving for the best results.

Strategic accommodation advice

Accommodation costs constitute a considerable share of the annual budget of a (service) organisation. Almost as important is the quality of the accommodation, which has a great impact on the productivity of your employees. It therefore pays to ensure that decisions regarding your accommodation are well founded. Rietmeijer Building & Workplace Consultancy works together with you to guarantee just that. You may already have a clear target in terms of accommodation or you may require further research into the options of undertaking re-orientation or cost saving of your accommodation.

Our strategic advice is based on the inventory of your current situation and wishes for the future. With your input, we draw up an analysis of the present buildings, your company targets, your organisation and processes and the accessory financial data. The analysis results in an accommodation strategy, a fitting workplace concept and a programme of requirements (spatial and functional). These starting points offer you a rational basis for the selection of new office space to be leased, a decision which will influence your organisation and your finance for many years.

Innovative workplace concepts

Your accommodation must optimally support your business. The cost aspect is certainly not unimportant, though you will need to provide your employees with a working environment in which they feel good. Good quality accommodation leads to better cooperation after all, it gives opportunities for changing a corporate culture, offers employees more freedom and responsibility and therefore often improves their motivation.

Rietmeijer Workplace Consultancy develops new workplace concepts, which optimally support the quickly changing organisation demands. Phenomena such as ‘new style working’, ‘activity based working’ or ‘working anytime, any place, anywhere’ are innovations which can give many an organisation a fantastic business impulse. However, they cannot simply be applied in any random organisation without further thought. Together with Rietmeijer, you determine the strategic value of your new workspace concept. You jointly establish the frameworks and, with your input, Rietmeijer gives insight into what your ideal workspace concept can look like. Whether it is technically feasible, how the concept serves your strategic targets and how you can best ensure support from within your organisation. The most important first steps towards optimal accommodation.

Turnkey design in new building

You have rented space in newly constructed premises. It will take a while to be completed, but it is worth the wait. In order to save time, you have agreed with the developer that he will take responsibility for your office interior, to be completed at the same time as the building. That’s a good option, because it saves you times, and also the double rental costs you would otherwise pay while constructing your interior. Moreover, you do not need to remove anything already installed by the developer but surplus to your requirements.

However, such an agreement has considerable pitfalls. If you do not determine what price/quality level you require beforehand, you will almost certainly be disappointed. It is sensible to include a number of matters in the rental agreement, in order not to have disputes at a later date. Rietmeijer supervises you in reaching such agreements, by clarifying your expectations and acting on your behalf in the construction team. You are therefore kept informed of the construction process and you have control of the agreements made.

Construction and technical advice

Construction and technical expertise is indispensable in our daily practice. There is always the question of whether something can actually be made and some designs are real challenges in that sense. Safety often plays a role, and sometimes liability, but it is usually simply a case of determining the technical feasibility of a certain issue and the related costs.

Rietmeijer Building Consultancy, our team of constructional and technical consultants, is familiar through and through with the construction world and the particulars of the various types of real estate. Within Rietmeijer, the team advises interior designers and project managers of the technical steps to be taken for your project. Or they advise you, if it is a simple matter at hand. All the disciplines under one roof, very convenient.