Project Process - Ciadesigns

Cia Design Project Process

Test Fit options (hand sketch first) up to 3 revisions
Site analysis – views/best aspects/natural daylight
Building Analysis – core/columns/entry & exit points/lighting/base building finishes
Spatial Blocking plans
Departmental relationships plans
Overall look & feel moodboard
Convert final plan to CAD
Distribute final plan to engineers for integration/overlay
Distribute final plan to building surveyor for compliance check with BCA regulations

Staff communication plan (if desired)
A comprehensive, A3 design presentation around the overall look and feel of all
spaces. This document is crucial in ensuring we have fully captured both
your aspirational and functional brief
3D modelling of selected areas to comprehensively explain the proposed interior
design solution
Visits to 4 reputable workspace furniture & workstation suppliers to review styles
and their suitability
Organisation of furniture samples for testing
A1 sized physical finishes and mood board. Utilized as an on-site reference to ensure
all finishes are correctly installed in accordance with the original selection
1:100 coloured and rendered finishes plans
Preliminary reflected ceiling plans
Analysis of any furniture for re-use
Consultation and briefing meetings with base building management
Communication of design to external consultants and base building management
Project site visits and design meetings as needed
Ceiling designs and concepts

Finishes Schedule
Equipment, fixtures and fittings Schedule
Lighting Schedule
Door Schedule
Furniture Schedule
Demolition plans @ 1:100
Partition plans @ 1:100
Floor, wall and specialist finishes plans @ 1:100
Furniture and workstation plans @ 1:100
Reflected ceiling plans @ 1:100
Partition, floor and ceiling details @ 1:5
Elevations as required @ 1:50
Specialist individual joinery (built in furniture, kitchens
etc.) detail plans and elevations @ 1:20

Workstation Details @ 1:20
Review of design against regulations
Meetings with Councing/BCA if needed
Assistance with QS and costings
Desk Details @ 1:20
Operable Wall Details @ 1:50/1:5
Planning permit submissions if required/building
permit drawings
Cross-check of Engineers Documentation to
Architectural Documentation and amendments
as needed
Review and integration of DA and BCA
requirements as identified by building surveyor

At CIA Designs we believe our service should not stop at the Documentation stage
and thus our role will continue through the entirity of the project and beyond. We sit
side by side with your appointed, cilent project manager during the competitive
tender process in selecting your eventual builder. During this process we further
assist in any required value-engineering processes.
In collaboration with your Project Manager we act as your eyes and ears in ensuring
what has been presented by the builder from a cost perspective meets the quality
and documentation standards. As we are a separate entity from the party builidng
your project we can make sure you do in effect “get what you have paid for”.
As we pay particular attention to ensuring you receive the level of quality and detail
as outlined in our detailed drawings and specifications, we deem it imperative to
conduct, in collaboration with the Project Manager, regular site visits to
ensure the outcome meets our own and our clients expectations.
We further extend this review process to all areas of the project from meeting with
the appointed joiner to ensure the workmanship meets design quality expectations
to reviewing the cost effected furniture solutions and ensuring they meet quality
and logevity bench marks.

Did You Know…
“ Correct planning can save your
project between 20% – 30% of
your total budget?”