Space strategists · since 1994
Reality vs Perception
Accurate drawings, hard evidence about how the space is used, and the people to carry out whatever follows: a move, an audit, a fit-out, a chargeback.
Detailed studies of how the building is being used. Surveyors walk every floor several times a day, over one or two working weeks.
A number on its own settles no arguments. Every study we run is set against hundreds of others, gathered the same way since 2013.
A plan two moves out of date is worse than no plan, because somebody will trust it. We keep the record of your estate accurate.
Every area measured off the drawings and sorted into core, useable and plannable, so you can see what you are paying for and who is using it.
The work that follows a decision: moves, audits, labelling, and extra hands for an in-house CAD or planning team when the work spikes.
Live from our own database. Utilisation studies are one part of what we do, and the part that keeps a running count.
Four arrangements, and they are not exclusive. Most long-standing clients started with one piece of work and kept us on for the rest.
A single study, a floor to redraw, one move. No retainer and no commitment beyond it.
Drawings kept current all year and studies repeated, so you see the trend rather than one snapshot.
We take the overflow at the pinch points, to your standards and under your direction.
For consultants and service providers: our work, your name on the report and the portal.
Adept Space was established in 2013; the people in it have done CAD and space management since 1994, for global institutions and for firms with a single floor.
When the software our studies needed did not exist, we wrote it. Adept Observe now runs every study we do, and is sold in its own right.
Being small is deliberate. Whoever answers the phone has stood on the floor of a building like yours.
Drawings arrive by email and surveyors travel. Studies run across 26 countries, in twelve languages on the tablet.
Work delivered across 45 sectors
No, and plenty of clients never do. Some only ever send us drawings; some only ever commission studies. They fit together well, but each stands on its own.
Whatever you have. DWG is ideal, a PDF is fine, and a photograph of a printed plan on a wall has been the starting point more than once. Getting the drawings right is our job, not yours.
No. A surveyor records that a desk is in use and how many people are at it. Never who. No names, no photographs, no badge or wifi data, and nobody is asked anything. We provide a briefing you can send to staff beforehand.
One or two working weeks on the floor, with about a week either side for set-up and reporting. The report builds while the survey runs, so there is nothing to wait for at the end.
Yes, and a good deal of our work is delivered that way. The report and the portal your client logs into carry your branding, not ours. We are comfortable being invisible.
Yes. We are UK based and work globally: studies in 26 countries so far, and CAD work anywhere there is email.
The building, roughly how big, and the decision in front of you. That is enough for us to come back with something useful. We reply within one working day.
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