Offices
- New build offices and refurbishments
- Cat A fit-out
- Cat B and Cat C fit-out
- End-user training and early integration
- Design optimisation and spatial use planning
- Sustainable construction and building solutions
We are focused upon delivering smarter workplaces for our customers and the people they serve, incorporating the need for efficient construction, refurbishment, and fit-out, all while adhering to national, regional, developer, and end user net zero and sustainability objectives. This often includes meeting the standards for sustainability certifications such as BREEAM, NABERS, or LEED.
Our approach prioritises reducing embodied carbon during construction and ensuring operational efficiency throughout the building's lifecycle. With a breadth of commercial office experience, we deliver outstanding workplaces across the UK, whether it's a new build or complex remodelling in the urban environment.
The modern business is increasingly aware of the need to incorporate wellbeing into the design of their working environment, the hallmark of a progressive and successful company. We are committed to building these spaces with the end user in mind, ensuring that every detail—from layout to lighting—supports a healthy, productive, and engaging workplace for all.
Key elements of success
Our expert team is uniquely experienced at working with technically complex schemes like ‘cut and carve’ projects, listed buildings, diverse and complicated existing services, multi-party walls and façade retention, safely de-constructing and re-constructing within live environments.
We have achieved several ROSPA safety awards due to our work for clients like The Portman Estate and The Cadogan Estate, coupled with some of the lowest accident frequency rates in the industry.
The external façade on a commercial office project is one of the most critical and challenging elements. A unique façade will make your building stand out amongst the surrounding architecture, but it also needs to be sympathetic to the properties around it and comply with planning regulations.
Our aim is to achieve a façade which has overall value as an asset. We understand the construction challenges associated with complex pre-cast concrete systems, highly specialised hand-set brickwork and historical facades that are subject to strict planning rules.
We have delivered office buildings with truly complex facades which place McLaren firmly at the centre of only a small handful of UK contractors able to take on these construction challenges.
Our team at McLaren offer on-site liaison with extensive safety leadership and disturbance mitigation measures, employed 24/7 to manage the potential disruption to operational workplaces.
McLaren aim for little or no interaction with the building’s occupants in terms of segregation from the works. However, we also ensure high visibility when it is necessary on safety grounds, with our liaison teams working alongside logistics and traffic management personnel.
Each project has 24/7 security and visible points of contact for contractors, site staff and the occupants of the building.
Open ceilings have become the design of choice for many contemporary office buildings because of the urban vibe they add to a space. Consequently, special focus is required on the finish of exposed concrete, ductwork, electrical systems and plumbing.
This look requires an exceptional amount of skilled labour that goes beyond normal MEP engineering. Our teams understand what it takes to build these environments along with the need for efficient thermal performance and an overall look that is aesthetically pleasing and easy on the eye.
McLaren is experienced in managing the end-user integration process which involves the coordination of new equipment and furniture alongside existing items relocated from the previous premises.
To achieve a seamless transition, we integrate move planning into the programme 3-6 months ahead of completion and manage this in minute detail, working side by side with end users from handover to post occupation.
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