Designing for Expansion: A Way to Reduce the Cost of Growth
- Topics:
- Interior Planning-Design
- Tags:
- Growth
- Source:
- bizsites.com
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Overview: In today’s fast-moving business world, a company that is building a facility might find it has outgrown that new plant or office sooner than expected. That’s why it is important to exercise a formal process for estimating growth that can serve as a guideline for building, remodeling or relocating. By doing so, companies can save significant expense, time and effort, experts say. The first step is coming up with a realistic estimate of the company’s facility needs for the foreseeable future. Predicting future space needs based on expected growth or contraction is best accomplished using a formal process that methodically weighs internal and external factors. When beginning a site selection process companies need to develop an architectural program or “brief,” which is an analysis of the potential range of flexibility with a given site, the range of flexibility one is likely to use and how much of a premium one pays to execute that flexibility. Planning for growth also means judging the capacity of existing utilities and infrastructure based on expected future needs, rather than the company’s current needs.
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Format: HTML | Date: Feb 2000 | Pages: 1
