New office · Relocation · Expansion
Open on schedule with the workplace ready from day one.
Pettus connects furniture decisions, architectural interiors, approvals, lead times, warehousing, delivery, installation, and site readiness to the date the workplace must become operational.
Backward planning
A fixed opening date creates a chain of earlier decisions.
Furniture cannot be treated as a final delivery event. Plans, applications, approvals, product release, production, warehousing, construction completion, technology, delivery, installation, and employee move-in must work backward from the date the workplace must operate.
Build the workplace from a developing plan.
Connect programming, applications, furniture, architectural interiors, technology, logistics, and installation to the opening event.
Coordinate transition and reuse.
Define new furniture, reuse decisions, temporary conditions, warehousing, sequencing, installation, and operational cutover.
Extend or evolve existing standards.
Match or intentionally change existing furniture while coordinating occupied-site interfaces, delivery, installation, and support.
Sequence areas and departments.
Plan floors, zones, departments, delivery windows, storage, installation, punch-list work, and progressive occupancy.
The decision chain
Work backward from the day the workplace must operate.
- Target opening, move-in, or employee-return date
- Final plan, user requirements, quantities, and furniture standards
- Product selections, finishes, approvals, alternates, and release authority
- Production, freight, warehousing, delivery, and installation windows
- Construction completion, field verification, access, power, data, and technology
- Walkthrough, corrections, occupancy, warranty, and continuing support
Critical readiness questions
Opening risk is usually created before installation week.
What must be approved—and by when?
Applications, products, finishes, quantities, budgets, alternates, technology, and change authority.
What conditions must be complete?
Construction, flooring, ceilings, walls, doors, power, data, access, elevators, loading, protection, and staging.
How will people and products move?
Warehousing, removals, reused furniture, installation sequence, employee movement, temporary conditions, and communication.
Move-in readiness path
Four stages connect the opening event to the work that must happen earlier.
Define the opening event.
Occupancy, relocation, employee return, phased opening, project stage, decision authority, and immovable dates.
Complete release decisions.
Applications, products, finishes, budgets, alternates, approvals, quantities, and required release milestones.
Control production and site readiness.
Tracking, freight, storage, construction completion, access, staging, technology, and installation prerequisites.
Deliver, install, and stabilize.
Placement, adjustment, walkthrough, final corrections, occupancy support, warranty, additions, and changes.
Move-in readiness brief
Share the event, location, timing, and primary constraint.
Pettus can identify the decision, product, logistics, site, or installation work that should be examined first.
- New office, relocation, expansion, or phased opening
- Target opening, move-in, or employee-return window
- Current plan and furniture-decision status
- Schedule, site, logistics, or installation concern
Common questions
Questions buyers ask when the date matters.
How early should Pettus be involved?
Can Pettus help even if the final plan is not complete?
Can Pettus warehouse furniture before the site is ready?
Can Pettus support reused furniture?
Do not let the opening date become an installation-week problem.
Start with the event and work backward to the decisions and conditions that control readiness.