Cyber City is the most tightly managed place we work anywhere. Every tower has a written fit-out manual, a permitted work window, a nominated materials lift and an estate office that checks all three. That sounds like friction and it is actually the opposite: when the rules are written down, a job can be planned properly and it runs to plan.
Send us the fit-out manual before you ask for a price
Every tower here has one, and it is not a formality. It says what hours work may happen, which lift takes materials, what insurance the contractor must carry, whether hot work is allowed at all, and what the deposit is.
We ask for it before quoting a floor, because it changes the price honestly rather than later. A floor that can only be worked between 10pm and 6am takes more nights and more people than the same floor in daylight. Pricing it as a day job and finding the rule afterwards is how a fit-out slips a week and a quote gains a revision.
If you do not have the manual, the facility manager will. It is worth the one email before you collect prices, because it makes every quote you receive comparable.
Night work, and what it actually costs
Most glass in Cyber City goes in at night. The building is empty, the lifts are free, and nothing disturbs the floors around you.
The honest part is that night work costs more in labour and nothing more in glass. A night shift needs a larger team to finish a section in one window, and there is a setup and clear-down at each end that a daytime job does not repeat.
We show that as labour in the written price, separately, so you can see exactly what the restriction is costing. What we do not do is quote a day rate and add a night premium once the schedule is agreed.
Working to a contractor's programme
Most Cyber City floors are run by a main contractor, and glass sits at a specific point in the order of trades. Too early and the panels get damaged by everyone who comes after. Too late and we are holding up handover.
The right position is after ceilings and floors are substantially done and before final finishes. We will say so if the programme puts us somewhere else, because installing beautiful glass into a floor that still has grinding and painting to come is a way of paying twice.
On a contractor-run job we work to your programme, hold our slot, and give you the panel schedule and the fitting sequence in advance. The written price shows glass, fittings and labour separately, which is what a main contractor needs to compare it against anyone else properly.
