TDA Interiors has completed the last of a series of interior fitouts for international travel agency group Flight Centre around Australia and New Zealand, worth around $14 million.
In total, four Flight Centre offices were refurbished by TDA Interiors across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Auckland, New Zealand.
The first Flight Centre fitout to be completed was at 234 Sussex Street in Sydney, where TDA Interiors created workstations, offices, meeting rooms and a kitchen over two levels of office space. The 1,600 sqm project cost $1.3 million and was challenging for TDA Interiors in that the office space remained occupied and in use throughout the seven week long fitout.
Project manager for TDA Interiors Jon Rogow said that these difficult circumstances were overcome by working on half a floor at a time. “We would literally shift everything including employees, to one side of the floor while we worked on the other, then we would switch sides,” Rogow says.
In Melbourne, TDA Interiors commenced work on Flight Centre’s Melbourne offices at 436 St Kilda Road, taking eight weeks to fitout 3,340 sqm of office space over four levels. The project was worth $3.4 million and in addition to work stations, offices and meeting rooms, the fitout also included a gymnasium and shower facilities.
In Auckland, New Zealand, TDA Interiors was responsible for refurbishing seven floors at 124 Vincent Street for a project that spanned 5,600 square metres and incorporated 16 bathrooms. The job took around 5 months to complete and included a lobby area as well as a café tenancy within the building.
TDA Interiors was also selected to fitout Flight Centre’s Brisbane offices which are located at 545 Queen Street. The project was worth $5.8 million and involved transforming 6,600 sqm over three floors into office space that complied with the building’s energy efficiency rating.
While all Flight Centre projects included automated lighting systems which switch off when sensors detect that no one is in the vicinity, it was the Brisbane office that included the most ESD features. These included an electronic monitoring system with automated timers to measure water, electrical and mechanical consumption.
