MET Romania Energy moves into the Expo Business Park office building

The offices MET Romania Energy is moving into are A Class and have been customized for this company.

“MET Romania Energy has wished for a more modern office and what matters most is that Expo Business Park is a green building, BREEAM Outstanding certified, and has low energy consumption levels. The office project is near a metro station, in a new business hub, and its ground floor is organized with commercial premises of various destinations like food and other services for the employees“, declares Dorin Caplea, Senior Consultant Advisory - Office Agency, Fortim Trusted Advisors, Alliance Member BNP Paribas Real Estate.

Expo Business Park has a double certification, BREEAM Outstanding and WELL Health-Safety Rating through International WELL Building Institute (IWBI). By meeting these standards, Expo Business Park offers the tenants a healthy environment with a low consumption of energy and water, intelligent solutions for LED lighting, bicycle parking racks provided with showers and lockers, fresh and clean air input to the building. The project is also provided with solar panels on the roof.

Expo Business Park, located in Expoziției area is a vibrant project of A Class offices, with three office buildings which include five, seven and eight floors respectively, over a net total area of 40,000 sqm office space.

Expoziției area is a new business pole, with an energetic growth, located in the north of the Capital. In this zone the office stock of a superior class has rapidly increased in the last five years, up to a total of over 100,000 sqm of modern offices.

The Project Management services are being professionalized

“As a trend, we have noticed that the Project Management services for the fit-out of office stock are gaining importance among the tenants. The companies wish for a an office space segmented as efficiently as possible, with a low energy consumption, with quality finishes and new type of partitioning, which are innovative, attract employees, and create a pleasant working experience. Up to now, our company ensures Project Management only within services package that are common with those of Property Management, in case of developers, yet we have recently opened the possibility for several types of partnership. Ensuring the Project Management services, together with the advisory ones, is aligned to our new business line «One-Stop Shop»“, declares Costin Nistor, Managing Director, Fortim Trusted Advisors, Alliance Member BNP Paribas Real Estate.

During the fit-out process for an office space, the construction works are taking most of the time (50% of the total time), on the second place being the achievement and approval of the architecture, design and installations project (30%). Not to be neglected are yet the time needed for the bidding of the construction works and for the moving process of the firm, one the works are finalized, and which must be allocated each 10% of the time.

The Project Management company closely watches the entire process of Fitting-Out an office space which includes four main stages: the first one is projecting, a stage in which architecture services, design and MEP are called for, a second stage is organizing the bidding for a construction firm, the third stage is the actual effecting of the construction works, and the final stage is the relocation and moving of the firm.