Office Millwork & Workplace Casework

Office millwork elements

Workstations and benching

Built-in desking, shared benching and returns. Cable management and power access at each position are the critical details.

Storage walls

Full-height casework combining filing, personal storage, coat hanging and supplies. Often doubles as a room divider or acoustic element.

Boardroom credenzas

Housing AV equipment, power and connectivity, with the ventilation and service access that equipment requires. Frequently incorporates a cable pass to the table.

Coffee and pantry stations

Counter, upper and lower storage, appliance provision and a durable, cleanable surface. Among the highest-use millwork in an office.

Meeting-room and huddle casework

Compact units for smaller rooms housing displays, cameras and connectivity, with acoustic considerations.

Acoustic panelling

Slatted or fabric-faced panelling to control reverberation, which is a persistent problem in open-plan offices with hard surfaces.

What drives office millwork cost

Designing around how the office actually works

The most expensive mistake in office millwork is building for the org chart rather than for the work. Storage volumes in particular have changed enormously — most Calgary offices we measure have roughly half the paper filing they had a decade ago, and far more need for places to charge devices, park laptops and store AV kit. Building the filing capacity that used to be standard produces units that sit empty while people hunt for a free outlet.

Cable management is where office joinery most often fails. It is not enough to provide a hole; the route has to be reachable after installation, because devices change. A reception desk with a sealed cable void looks immaculate on handover and becomes unusable the first time a card terminal is replaced. Access panels are unglamorous and they are what keep the fixture serviceable.

Acoustics deserve consideration in any open-plan floor. Millwork is one of the few elements that can address sound without a separate specialist package — a slatted timber wall with absorptive backing behind it, or a tall storage run positioned to break a sight line, does measurable work in a space where every other surface is hard.

What we build for Calgary offices

Reception and front-of-house desks

The first thing a visitor touches, and usually the piece with the most integrated services: power, data, card terminals, sometimes a lowered accessible section.

Boardroom and meeting room joinery

Credenzas, AV walls and cabinetry sized around the screen, the equipment and the ventilation that equipment needs — a sealed AV cupboard cooks its contents.

Storage walls and tambour units

Full-height runs that hide bulk storage behind a clean face, often doubling as an acoustic break in open plan.

Kitchen and staff areas

The hardest-used joinery in any office. Specified closer to commercial kitchen standards than to a domestic kitchen.

Workstation and bench systems

Fixed benching with integrated power and cable trays, where loose furniture does not suit the floorplate.

Acoustic and feature wall panelling

Slatted, fluted or perforated panels used to soften a room and to carry branding without signage.

How an office project runs

Office work is usually phased around a live business, so sequencing matters as much as fabrication.

1. 1
   Requirements and measureWe walk the floor with whoever manages it, count actual storage in use rather than assumed, and locate existing power and data.
2. 2
   Drawings and approvalElevations with materials, finishes and service routes. In leased premises this set usually goes to the landlord as well as to you.
3. 3
   FabricationFour to seven weeks depending on finish. Veneer matched across a long run and custom colour matching both extend this.
4. 4
   Phased installationCommonly evenings or weekends, or floor by floor, so the business keeps operating. Reception is usually done last to avoid damage.
5. 5
   HandoverAdjustment, plus a walk-through of access panels, cable routes and anything that will need to be opened later.