Management office Stadshart Amstelveen

Case study
Office shopping mall

Unibail-Westfield-RodamcoManagement office

Process

A special concept of architect Casper Schwarz, an in use office with multiple tenants and a very clear deadline: these are the ingredients when URW approached NewArmstrong to take on the project management for the Management office of Stadshart Amstelveen.

Office concept

The management office is the office where the day-to-day management of the shopping center resides. From technical management and facility management to commercial and financial. In this 360-square-meter office, there are 4 meeting rooms; an office space with 12 workstations, and an enclosed area for security and IT.

Budget

NewArmstrong matched a level of ambition with reference images and material selections and prepared a Foundation cost estimate for the budget based on that.

Concept

Casper Schwarz Architects created the conceptual design for this office.

The concept is based on quiet and muted colors with a preference for real materials and contrast in textures.

Because of the limited height, it was decided not to use a suspended ceiling but acoustic spray work made of recycled material.

Other acoustic measures are incorporated into furniture with a hard felt made from recycled PET bottles.

Strong
in brand identity

Project Management

With the design, NewArmstrong put together a technical dossier for the tender, including the technical installations. In the tender process, we have placed additional emphasis on issues that do not directly affect supplies but strongly influence pricing, such as

the limited hours of operation due to the residences and stores in the property
the limitations in transportation of demolition waste ( no possibility of placing a container
the limited loading and unloading possibilities on the Rembrandthof in connection with the market on disnbday and Friday
the timeline of moving tenants and terminating leases making deadlines very strict

With the technical file, we handled the tendering, awarding, contract formation and project management during execution.

The bids between them had a deviation of a few percent of the contract price and were in line with the budget. This is always an indication to us that the call for tender is complete and the right level of quality has been requested.

With a contract based on UAV with restrictive conditions, the contract was awarded and executed.

A 3-month time block was available between award and delivery, and the project was delivered within this time frame.

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