Pitampura runs two kinds of work side by side. Netaji Subhash Place is office towers - small suites, whole floors, clinics and back offices - with lifts, security desks and building rules. A few streets away is DDA and co-operative housing, ground plus three, no lift, forty years old. The rate is the same in both. Almost nothing else is.
Office floors at Netaji Subhash Place
An NSP floor is usually taken bare and divided into cabins, a meeting room and an open area. That is our most common job here and it runs well, because these buildings were built to be fitted out.
The constraint is the lift, and we measure it before we design. Most towers here take a panel up to about seven feet on the diagonal. Where a taller run is wanted, we split it with a slim vertical connector rather than gamble a made-to-size panel on a lift that will not take it.
The other thing to settle early is whether the partitions come out at the end of the lease. Most NSP floors are rented. An aluminium-framed system unbolts cleanly; a frameless one on patch fittings does not. Tell us which you need before we quote, because it changes the build rather than just the price.
Clinics and diagnostic rooms
There is a lot of medical use in these towers, and it changes the specification in small, specific ways.
A consulting room wants privacy at seated height, so the frosted band goes at sitting level rather than the standing level used in offices. A diagnostic room may need the partition to run tight to the slab rather than stopping at a false ceiling, which is a different detail and a different price. And a waiting-room door gets public-level traffic, so it takes a commercial floor spring rather than a domestic closer.
None of this is exotic. It is simply worth saying at the enquiry, because a clinic partition priced as a plain office partition will be the wrong thing.
The residential blocks behind
In Kohat Enclave, Rani Bagh and the surrounding colonies the work is bathrooms and repairs, in buildings with no lift.
Everything goes up the stair by hand, so the stair turn sets the largest panel. We measure that turn on the same visit as the bathroom - people almost never think of it, and it matters more than the bathroom door does.
Because the buildings are of an age, the walls have moved. We check with a level and tell you whether frameless will sit cleanly or whether a slim frame is the better answer. In a small older bathroom the frame very often looks better anyway, quite apart from what it does for the seal.
