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Tenant Improvement

Tenant improvement contractor.

Field notes on commercial build-outs and where the glass scope fits — written for property managers, tenants and the contractors coordinating them.

The Short Version

Glass is a build-out problem before it is a glass problem

A tenant improvement changes how a commercial space is used. Walls move, entrances change, an open floor plate becomes offices and meeting rooms. Almost every one of those changes touches glass — the storefront out front, the office fronts inside, the doors between them.

Glazing is also one of the easiest scopes to sequence wrong. It sits late enough that everything ahead of it pushes into it, and early enough that finishes behind it cannot start until it is set. Get it wrong and it is the trade everyone is waiting on.

We take the glazing scope

On build-outs as well as repair work. Send the drawings or a photo of the existing frontage.

What We Cover

Topics

The questions that come up on every build-out. Full articles are being written for each of these.

What is a tenant improvement contractor?

What a TI contractor actually does, how the role differs from a general contractor, and where the glass scope sits inside it.

The glazing scope in a tenant improvement

Storefront, office fronts, doors and hardware — what belongs in the glass scope and what routinely gets missed until it is expensive.

When glazing should happen in a build-out

Set the storefront too early and it gets damaged. Too late and every finish trade behind it waits.

Replacing a storefront during a TI

Changing the frontage for a new tenant: permits, matching the neighbours, phasing and keeping the rest of the centre trading.

Commercial glass lead times, honestly

Why one lite arrives in days and another takes weeks, and how to keep glass off the critical path.

Six glass mistakes that delay a build-out

The failures we get called in to fix, and the cheap decisions earlier in the job that caused them.

Doing a build-out right now?

We take the glazing scope on tenant improvements as well as repair work. Send the drawings or a photo of the existing frontage.