A Cyber City partition job is a managed-building job before it is a glass job. The floor plate is usually large, the programme is usually a main contractor's, and the building has written rules that decide when work happens and how material arrives. Everything else follows from those three.
Reading the fit-out manual as a pricing document
The manual is not paperwork to be filed. It is the document that tells us what the job costs.
It names the permitted work window, which decides whether this is a day job or a night job. It names the nominated materials lift, which decides how many trips the panels take. It states the insurance the contractor must carry and whether hot work is allowed at all.
So we read it before quoting, and we price from it. A floor restricted to 10pm-6am is a different labour number from the same floor in daylight, and the difference is several shifts. Quoting without the manual produces a number that will change, which helps nobody.
Sequencing a floor across night shifts
Night work has a rhythm that a day job does not, and planning to it is most of the skill.
Each shift has a setup at the start and a clear-down at the end that cannot be skipped, because the floor is handed back to the building in the morning. That overhead is fixed per shift, so the aim is fewer, fuller shifts rather than more, shorter ones.
Which means we size each night's work to a section that will genuinely complete - a run of cabins, a meeting room - rather than starting across the whole floor. A partly-glazed cabin left standing at 6am is unsafe and will be stopped by the building, which costs a shift rather than an hour.
Where glass belongs in the trade order
After ceilings and flooring are substantially finished. Before final finishes, painting touch-up and furniture.
Earlier than that and every following trade damages the panels. This matters more with toughened glass than with almost any other material, because a chipped panel cannot be repaired - it is remade, and that is three to five working days back into a programme that had no slack in it.
We will say so if the programme puts us in the wrong slot, and we will hold our slot if it puts us in the right one. On a contractor-run floor the panel schedule and fitting sequence go over in advance, and the price separates glass, fittings and labour so it can be compared properly.
How the job works
- Tell us about the jobSend a few photos, rough sizes and what you need. Use WhatsApp or the form. For a repair, a short video of the door moving helps a lot.
- We call you back in about 2 minutesWe confirm what you need and a time to visit. Where we can, we give you a rough price on the call.
- We come and measureWe measure the opening and check the walls, floor and ceiling around it. Anything made to size is made to these measurements, so they must be right.
- You get a written priceIt lists each item, with GST as its own line. If anything about the job changes, we tell you before we go ahead.
- We fit itYou approve the price and pay the advance. Our own team fits the work, checks that every door and window opens and closes properly, and clears up. Most jobs are done in 3 to 4 days.
