Terms and references
The project specifications are primarily built around two archetypes namely ‘industrial’ and ‘downtown corporate office’ with an area of 3,000 square meters each. The detailed inclusions and exclusions for both archetypes can be found in the following sections.
All cost information were estimated and collated in August 2022.
1 m2 = 10.7639 ft2
Downtown corporate office
The costing is for a high rise, usually a Grade A sustainable multi-tenant building in a CBD location:
- Work/ logistics restrictions apply,
- Shared facilities,
- Within CBD/ city limits,
- Labour placed outside campus
The construction costs include preliminaries, minor demolition, modification of builder work & MEP upgradation works, finishes, partitions, doors, ceiling, flooring, carpentry, plumbing works, general air conditioning and mechanical ventilation works, electrical works, fire protection & detection, security, permits, professional fees and furniture, all according to the WorkWELL specifications, and structured IT cabling and MER/SER preparation.
The construction cost excludes common base build provisions with a Grade A, multi-tenanted buildings for example raised access floors, ceilings, basic lighting, basic cooling and central base building services. It also excludes external works, common facilities and infrastructure like lifts, washrooms, parking, gymnasiums and other occupier common facilities. Also excluded are IT & AV hardware and peripherals, landscaping, demolition, developer’s internal cost and finance, land, legal, finance and holding costs, and GST or sales taxes.
The spatial requirements are arrived at using the ‘Space Budget Tool’ which can be accessed here. The output statistics are shown below:
Room name
Numbers
Area (sqm)
Headcount
400 (160 individual seats)
Reception lobby
1
55
Visitor meeting room
1
42
Visitor coat/luggage room
1
9
Meeting room - large
1
42
Meeting room - medium
6
28
Meeting room - small
12
17
Huddle room
12
12
Phone booth
12
9
Cafeteria (double up as townhall)
1
37
Supplemental coffee/print
1
9
Energy hub
1
55
Informal breakout space
1
9
Video room
3
9
Working lounge
1
33
Coat closet
1
4.5
Wellness room
1
14
Supplemental mothers room
1
10
Innovation room
1
25
IT Equipment room - main equipment room
1
25
IT Equipment room - satellite equipment room
1
14
Gender neutral toilet room
1
6
Industrial
The costing is for a Shell owned campus, manufacturing site or process area, low rise, super structure normally blast proofed, with the office asset located within an operation-critical or controlled manufacturing environment, usually outside of city limits or in a remote, protected area.
The construction costs include preliminaries, minor demolition, modification of builder work & MEP upgradation works, finishes, partitions, doors, ceiling, flooring, carpentry, plumbing works, general air conditioning & mechanical ventilation works, electrical works, fire protection & detection, security, permits, professional fees and furniture, all according to the WorkWELL specifications, and structured IT cabling and MER/SER preparation.
It is assumed that the base building (i.e., substructure, superstructure, architecture and infrastructure) is integrally sound and no major works are required. It also excludes external works, IT & AV hardware and peripherals, landscaping, demolition, developer’s internal cost and finance, land, legal, finance and holding costs and GST or sales taxes.
The spatial requirements are arrived at using the ‘Space Budget Tool’ which can be accessed here. The output statistics are shown below:
Room name
Numbers
Area (sqm)
Headcount
345 (200 individual seats)
Reception lobby
1
55
Visitor meeting room
1
42
Visitor coat/luggage room
1
9
Meeting room - large
1
42
Meeting room - medium
5
28
Meeting room - small
11
17
Huddle room
11
12
Phone booth
11
9
Cafeteria (double up as townhall)
1
37
Supplemental coffee/print
1
9
Energy hub
1
55
Informal breakout space
1
9
Video room
3
9
Working lounge
1
33
Coat closet
1
4.5
Wellness room
1
14
Supplemental mothers room
1
10
Innovation room
1
25
IT Equipment room - main equipment room
1
25
IT Equipment room - satellite equipment room
1
14
Gender neutral toilet room
1
6
IT & AV Cost
The IT and AV cost consist of the following items:
Item
Scope
Resource and travel
Project execution items such as project management, building telecom designer, IRM, AVCoE and travel expenses
Network deployment
Networks, telephony, collaboration
End user support
End-user computing, AD, user moves and site support
AV
Audio visual hardware
Network hardware
Routers, switches, access points
Desktop peripherals
Monitors, keyboards, mouse, locks and etc
The IT cost estimates are based on the consideration that 160 standard desktop setups for downtown corporate, 200 standard desktop setups for industrial, 1 x MER and 1 x SER, network builds as per Shell’s global standards, site delivered at standard availability level, IT delivered under standard REOCIT projects with REOCIT project manager on 0.5FTE basis for 11-month engagement period for a project with medium complexity.
The IT & AV costs in this report does not include IT cabling or MER/SER preparation (infrastructure for these have been included in construction costs), decommissioning cost of old offices, cell amplification and voice services including emergency response phones, operations centres, test labs and security control rooms, room booking systems and on-site servers or hosting.
It should be noted that the following will drive differentiation in IT cost estimates:
- Different volumes of defined space types
- Addition of non-defined space types
- Increased availability level for the site
- Townhall changes
- Different number of desks
- Different floorplate size
- Multiple floors
- Business specific IT & AV requirements
- Project timeline changes
- IT organisational changes
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