Fit-out of restaurants, shops, offices and clinics

A restaurant is the most demanding kind of premises. A commercial kitchen needs its own water supply, drains with a grease trap, gas or high-power electricity and a smoke extraction system that has to reach the roof. We solve all of this before drawing the dining room.

The small details that delay an opening also count: the smoke outlet from the hood, the bin store, the cold room or the delivery access. We include them in the design from the start.

The capacity of the premises determines the evacuation routes, the toilets and their accessibility. And the acoustics decide whether the neighbours will let you stay open late: insulation is designed and built in, not improvised at the end.

Before you sign the lease on premises for a restaurant, it pays to know whether the extraction can go up to the roof of the building and whether the available electrical power is enough. We check this on a visit and tell you what works those particular premises need.

• Shops. Shopfront and display window, lighting, air conditioning and a layout designed to sell. If you are a chain, we build to your brand manual.
• Offices. Workstations, meeting rooms, air conditioning, data network and toilets. A full floor or an entire building.
• Clinics. Consulting rooms, technical rooms, special installations and the requirements of the health authorisation, coordinated with your designer.

In all three cases we hand over the premises finished: installations tested, clean finishes and the documentation of the works for the licence and for your insurer.

We work on street-level premises, in shopping centres and on office floors, in Alicante, Elche, Benidorm and the rest of the Costa Blanca. The method is the same; what changes are the rules of each building and each town hall.

Finished premises without an activity licence cannot open. That is why the activity project and the works design are prepared together, with the professional who signs off the activity, and submitted at the same time.

While the town hall is reviewing them, we push ahead with everything that does not depend on its answer. When the answer arrives, the site is ready for the part that did.

If the premises have already housed a similar activity, part of what is there can sometimes be reused. If the use changes a lot, for example from a shop to a restaurant, the works and the licence grow. We tell you on the first visit, before you commit to the premises.

In commercial premises, every week of delay is a week of rent with no sales. That is why the schedule goes into the contract and we review it with you every week, with photos and progress by item.

Long-lead orders, such as kitchen equipment or air conditioning, are placed at the start, not when the works need them.

That is also why we prefer to finalise the complete design before starting. Every change halfway through moves the opening date, and we price it in writing, in cost and in time, before making it.

If your business keeps running, we work in phases and, when necessary, at night or at weekends. Each area is closed off, finished and handed over before we move on to the next.

In a shop or a clinic that is open for business, dust and noise are controlled with temporary partitions and daily cleaning. Your customers and patients should notice nothing more than a closed door. At the end of each shift, the area in use is left clean and safe.