CICC is the leading financial company in China and need to expand their office area in different location in China region, particular in Beijing, the capital and most important city in China. The project is to design an office with normal facilities like meeting rooms, workplaces, support functions including copier room, pantry and IT room. The main challenge is to set up a new design look and feel for CICC. Therefore, the right choice of material and furniture will be the main focus of this project.

It is a pre-requisite condition for new offices nowadays to be functional, efficient and yet delivering high productivity. However, besides these practical considerations, a wellness working environment should also be a very important issue in the design manifestation process. The balance of practicality and creativity is important in establishing a working model for office in this epoch. CICC, a leading financial company in the world, always stress on the importance of the wellness working conditions and such design concept is employed for their office in Hong Kong.

It is a normal phenomenon in the traditional office that each office staff has a fixed working station. However, this workplace model is already outdated and cannot meet the rapid CICC office expansion, hence we propose a more flexible seating system where some leisure type seatings are provided at the central hub area of the office for the flexibility of office expansion. This also serves as a temporary working area for travelers and sales people. Under this design layout, some surplus spaces are dedicated to some public area like meeting hub and hot desks which all have unique design character.

This CICC office highly promotes a professional image in term of branding realization and workplace design. Visitors are all well impressed by the brand-new office design and the facilities provided. CICC has set up a new standard for cooperate branding and office workplace design and this will evitability influence the other cooperates to provide better working mode and facilities for their staff.

The project is in charged by six core teams including four interior designers, E/M and QS. In the beginning, the design team will work closely with client to provide options of layout, 3D rendering, material sample to settle the design proposal. Once confirmation is granted, the project management team will work with E/M engineers and QS to have construction drawing and quotation for client approval. During construction stage, designer and engineer will closely monitor the project progress to ensure due completion. Regular and ad-hoc meeting will arrange to ensure good communication to solve site problem.

1. The construction fee is 16 million with 10-month construction time 2. The interior fitting out part of the CICC Hong Kong Office is designed by DPWT Design Ltd. 3. The design process of the CICC Beijing Office is as follows: 1) Site inspection and discussion with client: DPWT carry out site inspection to have an understanding of site condition. Communication with the client to understand their needs and prepare the onwards design concept. 2) Layout plans and renderings: According to the result of site survey and the communication with the client, DPWT then prepare the drawings and renderings with internal review. The final confirmation is granted after around 3-4 presentations. 3) Construction drawings and selection of materials: the construction drawing was prepared after the approval of layout plans and renderings by client. 4) Phasing of construction: regular site inspection is conducted in weekly basis 5) Completion of construction and opening: the final outcome receives very positive feedback from client.

The project inception to completion is in an extremely tight schedule of 4 months. During this period, numerous meetings, presentation and discussion are carried out at the same among designer, engineer, client and other vendor including furniture, carpet, security. The due completion of this project is strong evidence of a well-organized project and design team.

1. The final outcome of this project receives very positive feedback from client and everyone is very excited by the modern office. 2. The success of this project not only enhances DPWT's status in the client side, but also underpinning a good cooperation foundation between the two parties in the future. 3. The design effect of this project, not only acts as an advertising project to showcase DPWT design ability, but also provides the potential business opportunities for DPWT in joint projects with other companies.