Office Fit-Outs
Commercial interior design in Bangalore runs against a clock nobody in the process controls. The lease has commenced, the rent-free period is finite, the team has a joining date, and every week the space isn't usable is a week of rent on an empty floor.
Introduction
What derails that schedule is rarely design. It's the building — fit-out work restricted to specific hours, a freight lift shared with three other tenants doing the same thing, a landlord NOC that takes two weeks nobody budgeted for, and objections from the tenant on the floor below about drilling noise. Candidscape plans commercial fit-outs around those constraints because we've worked inside them, including our commercial work for M16 Labs on MG Road.
Commercial Office Fit-out Solutions
What your fit-out involves depends entirely on the condition the landlord hands the space over in. Getting this classification right before signing the lease is the single most useful thing a tenant can do for their own budget.
Bare shell
A raw floor plate: no false ceiling, no flooring, no HVAC distribution, no lighting, no partitions. Maximum design freedom, lowest headline rent, highest capital outlay and longest programme. You build everything.
Warm shell
The landlord provides core services: HVAC stub-ins, basic electrical, fire systems, often flooring and ceiling. You build the interiors and furniture layer. Middle ground, and the most common Bangalore Grade A arrangement.
Cat A
The landlord's base finish: raised access floors, suspended ceilings, base lighting and core services, delivered ready for a tenant layer.
Cat B
Your layer: layout, cabins, meeting rooms, branding, cafeteria and furniture. This is the scope most tenants are actually paying for, and the split matters for budgeting.
Second-generation space
A previously occupied floor with existing partitions and services. Faster to occupy, but carries the risk of legacy installations that aren't compliant or aren't documented. Worth a proper survey before you price the work.
Refurbishment & reconfiguration
Office renovation for a changed headcount, a hybrid working model or a brand refresh, usually phased around a live business. This is the most common commercial brief in Bangalore right now, and the one most affected by building working-hour restrictions.
Our Office Fit-out Services
Partitioning
gypsum, glazed, acoustic and demountable systems
Suspended ceilings, bulkheads and raised access flooring
Flooring
carpet tile, vinyl, timber and stone
Electrical distribution, DB boards, and lighting supply and installation
Structured cabling, networking and AV infrastructure
HVAC ducting, diffuser layout and controls integration
Fire detection, sprinkler modification and emergency signage
Workstations, storage and custom joinery
Pantry, washroom and breakout area execution
Glazing, doors, ironmongery and access control provisions
Signage, wall graphics, branding and final styling
Testing, commissioning, snagging and handover documentation
Our Commercial Interior Design Process
Shell & building study
Establishing what the base build actually provides, and equally important, what the building's fit-out rules permit. Working hours, lift access and approval processes are documented here, not discovered later.
Test fit & space planning
Layout options against headcount, meeting-room ratio, density and expected growth, so the space suits the team you'll have in two years.
Design & AI validation
Detailed design across services, ceilings and partitions, digitally pressure-tested for clashes before commitment.
Landlord submission & approvals
Drawings submitted, NOCs pursued and building management aligned while procurement runs in parallel.
Costing & contract
Scope, specification, programme and milestones fixed in one agreement.
Execution
Civil, ceilings, partitions, electrical, data, HVAC, fire and joinery sequenced by one team within permitted working windows.
Snagging & handover
Joint snag list, de-snagging, and handover with as-built drawings, warranties and testing certificates.
Why Businesses Trust Candidscape
Commercial clients including M16 Labs on MG Road have trusted us with spaces their operations run on. A lab fit-out in particular carries requirements — services density, equipment clearances, specialist finishes — that a generic office contractor tends to discover partway through.
What we bring beyond design is the discipline the rest of our work demands: healthcare fit-outs where hygiene specifications are audited, and government projects where documentation survives inspection years later. Commercial clients get that same standard applied to the thing they actually care about — the handover date holding.
Frequently Asked Questions
What's the difference between a Cat A and Cat B fit-out, and which do I pay for?
Cat A is the landlord's base finish — raised floors, suspended ceilings, base lighting and core services, delivered ready for a tenant. Cat B is your layer: layout, cabins, meeting rooms, branding, cafeteria and furniture. Tenants typically pay only for Cat B, though this depends entirely on what your lease specifies, which is worth confirming before you budget.
We're taking a bare shell. How is that different from a warm shell fit-out?
A bare shell has no false ceiling, flooring, HVAC distribution, lighting or partitions — you build all of it, which means higher capital cost and a longer programme in exchange for full design freedom and lower rent. A warm shell comes with core services already in place, so your scope starts at the interiors layer. The classification changes both the cost and the schedule substantially, so we establish it precisely at the survey stage.
Our building restricts fit-out working hours. Does that affect the timeline?
Significantly, and it's one of the most common reasons fit-outs overrun. A building permitting only limited daily hours for noisy work, or restricting freight lift access, can stretch a six-week programme considerably. We establish these rules during the building study and build the programme around them — an honest schedule that accounts for restrictions beats an optimistic one that ignores them.
Do you handle landlord approvals and NOCs?
Yes. Drawing submissions, landlord approvals and building-management coordination are handled as part of the project and started early, because they sit on the critical path even though no site work is involved.
How long does an office fit-out take?
For a mid-size office, design kick-off to handover commonly runs a few months, though the real determinants are shell condition, landlord approval timelines, building working-hour restrictions and furniture lead times. We commit to a programme after the shell and building study, once those variables are known rather than assumed.