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COVA engineers, costs and delivers workplaces that stay comfortable, flexible and affordable to run, across Asia-Pacific.
From corporate headquarters to fit-outs, our services design supports healthy, adaptable environments.
Fitouts inside someone else's building
Office fitouts live inside the landlord's infrastructure. Our designs work with the base building: supplementary plant only where needed, approvals coordinated through building management, and services documented to the building's technical standards.
Recent workplace projects include the 7-Eleven and HMC Capital head offices, Bendigo Bank and Cowell Clarke Lawyers. Where floors stay occupied, works are staged out of hours and changeovers timed around the tenant's business day.
Fit for the lease, not just the floor
A fitout's engineering has to answer the lease as well as the workplace: make-good obligations, landlord technical standards and building-ratings targets all shape the design, and COVA documents to those constraints from the start.
Cost management runs alongside - fitout budgets are tight and closely watched, and every services decision is costed as the design develops.
FAQs
Workplace - frequently asked questions
What makes a good workplace fitout from an engineering perspective?
COVA tunes air quality, thermal comfort, acoustics and lighting to how the space is actually used, plus the power, data and mechanical flexibility to reconfigure as teams and technology change.
Can you work with base-building systems in commercial towers?
Yes. COVA designs workplace fitouts around the landlord's base building services, with supplementary plant where needed and approvals coordinated through building management.
How do you support sustainability targets in workplace projects?
COVA's designs prioritise energy efficiency, indoor environment quality and metering, supporting clients' sustainability targets and building-ratings ambitions.
Can you work in an occupied building?
Yes. COVA stages fitout works around the occupants: noisy and disruptive tasks run out of hours, services changeovers are planned with building management, and floors are handed back ready for business each morning.