Workplace planning & design support
Translate people, workflow, and space into a practical furniture plan.
Pettus supports commercial office space planning, furniture layouts, applications, finishes, standards, and project coordination around how the workplace needs to function.
Requirements before furniture
Begin with workplace requirements, not furniture assumptions.
Planning should connect the current floor plan with the people, activities, privacy, circulation, storage, technology, standards, budget, schedule, and future change the space must support.
What must users accomplish?
Focused work, collaboration, learning, meetings, client interaction, support, social use, privacy, storage, and hybrid work patterns.
How must space operate?
Room types, workstation densities, clearances, doors, travel paths, accessibility, technology, adjacencies, and future flexibility.
What should be repeatable?
Private-office, workstation, conference, huddle, training, storage, reception, lounge, café, and ancillary settings.
Plan-to-application thinking
The drawing becomes useful when it exposes decisions.
A furniture plan should make the relationship between users, rooms, products, circulation, storage, power, data, technology, budget, schedule, and installation understandable to the project team.
- Who uses each setting and for what type of work
- Which applications repeat and where exceptions are justified
- What information is approved, provisional, or still missing
- Which decisions affect budget, lead time, field conditions, or opening date
Interfaces to coordinate
Resolve connected conditions before product release.
Walls, doors, and circulation
Room dimensions, swing and sliding doors, egress, clearances, columns, glazing, accessibility, and usable space.
Power, data, displays, and controls
Workstation feeds, floor cores, table power, displays, cameras, presentation, cable paths, and user access.
Applications, storage, and accessories
Dimensions, user needs, ergonomics, storage, screens, monitor support, lighting, materials, and finish relationships.
Lead time, delivery, and installation
Approvals, quantities, production, freight, storage, access, site readiness, placement, final correction, and support.
Planning path
A four-stage process from requirements to installed workplace.
Review the project context.
Plans, people, work modes, standards, budget, schedule, project stage, constraints, and decision authority.
Develop relevant settings.
Workstations, private offices, meeting, training, reception, lounge, storage, products, finishes, and alternatives.
Resolve the interfaces.
Dimensions, doors, circulation, power, data, technology, field conditions, approvals, quantities, and lead times.
Carry the plan into use.
Procurement, tracking, warehousing, site readiness, delivery, installation, final correction, warranty, and change.
Common questions
Questions buyers ask before planning begins.
Do we need a final architectural plan?
Does Pettus replace the architect or interior designer?
Can Pettus help establish furniture standards?
Can planning include architectural glass walls?
A preliminary plan or focused question is enough to begin.
Share the current information, project location, required date, and what needs to be decided next.