Preparing your firm for construction efforts

When extending or developing part of your premises, it’s important to prepare your business operations for this. Many things can become affected by the construction efforts you might have planned, but it’s all for the long-term good of your business. With that in mind, it’s still preferable to ensure that business operations are not as impeded as they might otherwise be.

After all, despite this momentary change in your daily operation, you still have a business to run. This means that finding methods to keep up your daily production, ensure that staff are happy and to potentially move vital processes is essential. It’s not hard to suggest that this be planned out in advance, but sometimes plans can change and require a careful, quickly pivoted approach.

Thankfully, this is a challenge that many businesses have to deal with at some point or another, so you hardly need to worry that you are in uncharted territory. In the following words, we hope to give you important advice to help you manage this project well:

Clear an area

It’s important to ensure that you clear space for the construction workers to begin. Of course, they are able to adapt to many situations and will generally make the area suitable by their own accord, but it can be good conduct to clear certain shrubbery, move a bike shed here or a bollard there to allow them further access.

Additionally, ask them for their requirements. It might be that they need a little more space to construct their scaffold safely, meaning that ensuring staff are careful to use an alternate campus road is important. If you pay attention to this, work can continue at the best means necessary.

Move staff

Staff cannot work effectively when the sounds of construction are taking place. While those working would be happy to offer you a silent construction option if only that was practical in reality, it’s not their fault that it isn’t. This can mean that using temporary offices off-site, investing in mobile office installations for a temporary period or even having certain staff work from home might be necessary for a time. Consider how long the construction might be and this can help you make the best decisions going forward.

Keep safety in mind, always

Even for staff who might be at the complete opposite end of the building to where construction is taking place - it is essential you fully brief your staff on any and all safety protocol you have. It might be that certain security processes are being enhanced due to part of your building being opened for construction, or that past a certain point certain safety equipment must be worn.

Keeping certain elements of the building completely off limits can also help you avoid any litigious issues that arise from bad sense. Ensure to update your staff on the progress, and to keep them in the loop always. This fosters healthier communication norms. 

With this advice, you are certain to prepare your firm well for said construction efforts.