Typical Retail Settings – Coffee Shops, Food Retail & Bistros
TK Retail Design Consultants operate in several retail and office settings. Core areas benefiting from our consultancy service include restaurants, cafes, bistros, wine bars, coffee houses, cocktail bars, delicatessens, bakeries, sandwich bars, independent boutique hotels, and bespoke office environments.
For examples of our consultancy services please visit Design Consultants Projects.
Please see also specific Projects pages for Sports Retail, Coffee Shops and Food Retail.
If you have a retail premises or office deign issue that you would like to discuss with us on a no obligation basis please call or e-mail TK Retail Design Consultants.
Practical Retail Unit Design Consultants For Retailers & Landlords
TK Retail Design Consultants advises retail clients and landlords on the practicalities of design in a retail setting.
TK Retail Design Consultants – Our Role
Our role as design consultants is to take an initial interior retail design and convert it to a practical, value engineered design, which will optimise the space and efficiency of the unit. We will refine a retail interior design and make it practical and workable within the budget constraint.
European Construction & Design Management Regulations
TK Retail Design Consultants will also develop your interior retail design to ensure compliance with a myriad of legislation – building control, disabled access, and the European Construction & Design Management regulations. The recently introduced European Construction & Design Management regs imposed a more onerous responsibility on the owner and end user of the retail unit and it is vital that all relevant considerations are dealt with.
TK Retail Design Consultants – Occupier’s Safety Responsibilities
It is the retailer’s legal obligation to comply with the Construction Design Management regs (CDM). A significant failure to comply can result in a heavy fine and possible imprisonment for the building occupier. Please visit Retail Design Services page for details of how TK Retail Design Consultants can help.
TK Retail Design Consultants – Adding Value
TK Retail Design Consultants add value to retail interior designs by brokering the relationship between developer and retailer. This relationship is best illustrated by an over simplified example:-
A Developer’s Ideal Shell Unit is 0.25 acres of land, 3,000 bricks delivered to site, with the client providing his own mixer.
A Retailer’s Ideal Shell Unit is a fully fitted out unit, an ample level loading bay at rear to bring in stock and the keys waiting in the door.
Our role is to firstly recognise that these two positions exist. Then we identify and deal with the issues that separate them. In the process we will eliminate the waste and inefficiency, which can be highly significant, in a sub-optimal retail design. The preferred outcome is that the retailer receives the precise unit that he needs, and the landlord and developer deliver this at the optimum cost.