Document the base building
Field-verified dimensions, openings, circulation, fixed elements and visible building systems to establish reliable existing-condition plans.
CASE STUDY · SPACE PLANNING
Turning two leased spaces into decisions a client could make.
A school was considering two different uses in two separate leased spaces: an executive office and a thrift store. Bright Bond Consulting documented the conditions and developed the early planning needed to test both ideas.
- Conditions
- Two leased spaces · approximately 6,300 sq ft
- Responsibility
- Existing conditions and feasibility planning
- Output
- Test fits, scope and preliminary costing
BEFORE DESIGN
First, understand what the spaces would allow.
Each location was measured and assessed in person. The work documented existing layouts and the mechanical, electrical and plumbing conditions that would shape what could be built and what it might cost.
Those observations became preliminary floor plans, scope assumptions and estimates—enough information to move the conversation from possibility toward feasibility.
A plan is useful before anything is built. It gives an idea dimensions, constraints and a price.
WORKING DOCUMENTS
From overall use to the details people encounter.
Preliminary planning documents used to test layout, accessibility, building-system relationships and scope before construction.
THE PLANNING SEQUENCE
Identify the scope drivers
Read the spaces for constraints, MEP capacity, accessibility considerations and opportunities for reuse—distinguishing what could remain from what would drive cost or require intervention.
Translate program into space
Developed preliminary layouts that tested the client’s intended uses against circulation, adjacencies, clearances and the realities of each leased space.
Make feasibility visible
Converted the test fits and observed site conditions into preliminary scope and order-of-magnitude cost information for client decision-making.
SPACE 01 · APPROX. 3,400 SQ FT
Executive office
Planning considered how an existing leased space could support office functions, circulation and the building systems required for the proposed use.
SPACE 02 · APPROX. 2,900 SQ FT
Thrift store
The preliminary layout organized the retail zone, back-of-house functions, accessibility and existing utilities into a workable first concept.
THE VALUE OF THE PHASE
Not every useful project reaches construction.
The client did not advance the spaces into design development or construction. The planning work still served its purpose: it made the physical requirements and likely investment visible before larger commitments were made.
PRE-CONSTRUCTION
Existing conditions
MEP assessment
Preliminary layouts
Scope development
Budget testing