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Furniture Installment for local I.T. Department | Hoffman

Complete 23 Kimball Interworks offices in one room, two in another, three executive offices, two meeting rooms and a conference room all in a two week time frame?  No problem!    We admit this installation kept us pretty busy but we’ve completed as much as construction delays would allow.

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Let’s start with the 23 offices.  Pictured in the above photos are one half of a mostly symmetrical design.  Because of spacing however, the east wall could only house 5 offices instead of six.  All the offices against the outer walls were made with a 66 inch high panel.  Not pictured are the special powered panels we used to form the power backbone.  These panels feature not only a powered jumper from one panel to another on the bottom of the panels, but also a mid-panel power channel to line up with the top of the work surfaces.  This power channel was needed because of all the cords and devices the client needed for each I.T. worker.  The extra channel allowed for more plugins per office, as well as more room to run networking cables from a centralized drop.  The outer offices were also furnished with “privacy panel” doors.  These specialized panels attach to an existing panel and provide an acrylic door for each office.  Each of the 11 offices against the walls included two overhead storage units, a box-box file pedestal, and a file-file pedestal for storage.  All of these items were made by Kimball Office.

The middle 12 offices were constructed similarly, only these panels employed two different heights.  The central powered panels were the same type of panels used in the larger offices, but the panels forming the rest of the walls for each office were 54 inches high.  This allows one to look into the room and see every office from the front area.  The central office on the left side of this arrangement had an interesting challenge in the form of a load-bearing pole to build its office around.  Our original plan was to custom cut a work surface around it and sacrifice some room in one office, but utilize all the remaining space to used the room most efficiently.  What we had to do, however, was change  the sizes of two of the work surfaces to be slightly larger and give up on having any corner unit whatsoever, since the pole was built 21 square inches bigger than the specs called for!

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The three executive offices were built using Kimball Office case goods. We first used wall-mounted overhead storage units using Traxx and added fabric tiles to be used as an extended tack board, which we also installed over the bridge of the desk.  To create the credenza, we used  a file-file pedestal, lateral file, and multi-file, all attached to a work surface top.  The desk itself was an extended D top.  The bottom portions of these offices were finished in Shadow, and the tops were finished in Canyon Oak.  The entire  office pictured here was completed with the Kimball Office Footprint line.

Not pictured is two meeting rooms that each got a 36 by 72 inch table in the same finish as the offices, and four chairs made by Versteel in the Companion line.

The conference room table and its corresponding chairs have not been installed yet as the construction company is still not done using it as a blueprint room!

The installation took us just under two weeks, from loading our truck with the furniture to walking out and turning out the lights.  Big or Small, we work hard and install whatever your office may need.  If you would like any more information about planning a project such as this one, feel free to contact us!