Midtown Class A Commercial Interior Buildout

01 — Overview

Full-floor Class A commercial buildout for a financial services tenant occupying a single 42,000 sq ft floor in a landmarked Midtown South tower. AGC delivered the project under a stipulated GMP contract on an occupied building with active tenants above and below, coordinating union trades, base-building management, and tenant FF&E vendors across an 11-month schedule.

02 — Client Challenge

The tenant signed a 15-year lease contingent on full occupancy by Q1, with a fixed move-in date driven by lease-expiration penalties on their prior space. The base building imposed restricted freight windows, after-hours noise restrictions, and a landlord work-letter requiring weekly compliance reporting. The prior contractor of record had been released, and AGC was engaged to absorb existing design documents, reconcile open RFIs, and re-baseline the schedule without resetting the tenant's occupancy date.

03 — Scope of Work

• Demolition of existing partitions, ceilings, and MEP to landlord shell condition
• New tenant partitions, acoustic separations, and demising walls
• Full MEP/FP fit-out — VAV redistribution, supplemental cooling, life-safety integration
• Structured cabling, AV infrastructure, and secure server room buildout
• Custom millwork: reception, executive offices, café, and 14 conference rooms
• Architectural glass fronts, acoustic ceilings, and stone flooring at common areas
• Tenant FF&E coordination, vendor staging, and punch-list closeout

04 — Construction & Coordination Process

• Pre-construction: re-baselined CPM schedule, coordinated open RFIs with the design team, validated GMP against design documents, and managed buyout reconciliation after award
• Logistics plan: secured dedicated freight windows with base-building management, staged a sidewalk hoist for oversized millwork, and sequenced deliveries against a published 14-day look-ahead
• Trade coordination: weekly BIM clash-detection review with MEP/FP subcontractors, daily superintendent foreman huddles, and a single point of accountability for the landlord work-letter
• Compliance: DOB filings managed in-house, FDNY sign-offs scheduled in parallel with TCO milestones, weekly safety walks documented and submitted to the landlord
• Quality control: in-wall and above-ceiling inspections logged before close-up, three-tier punch process (super, PM, owner's rep) prior to substantial completion
• Closeout: O&M manuals, as-builts, and warranty package delivered at substantial completion, with warranty walk coordination addressed at contract execution

05 — Challenges

Maintaining base-building tenant operations on adjacent floors, threading after-hours MEP work into restricted noise windows, and protecting the schedule through two long-lead procurement substitutions without triggering a change-order cascade.

06 — Key Outcomes

• Delivered substantial completion 9 days ahead of the contractual milestone
• Closed under GMP with a 2.1% owner contingency returned at final reconciliation
• Safety walks documented and submitted to the landlord as part of the compliance process
• TCO secured on first FDNY inspection with no outstanding violations
• Tenant occupied the floor on the contractual move-in date with full IT and AV commissioning complete
• Engaged for a second-floor expansion buildout within six months of closeout