Executive Office Renovation – Real Results
This client is one of the largest outside electrical contractors in the Western United States, handling transmission line, distribution, and substation construction for utility and industrial clients across the region. Acoustic bleed was affecting sensitive meetings across the entire executive floor. This problem was serious enough that conversations meant to stay private carried straight through the walls of executive offices and the boardroom. The client brought in Pacific Ergonomics to fix that, update multiple dated C suite offices and a board room, hallways, storage areas, make it more functional for executive that have very different needs.
Pacific Ergonomics commercial furniture solutions turned a dated office into a modern showpiece that is attractive, functional and ergonomic. The space is unrecognizable.
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Client |
Electrical Contractor |
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LOCATION |
Escondido, CA |
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Scope |
Total transformation of the C-suite floor with 4 executive offices, boardroom, storage areas, hallway, storage, and stairs |
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Design Firm |
Pacific Ergonomics in-house design, specification of products, all finishes, procurement, and installation. |
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Outcome |
Renovating the existing built-ins instead of adding new millwork avoided an estimated $200,000 in cost. The conference room cabinet alone would have run close to that figure as custom millwork. The result is a C-suite that gets used every day and looks nor functions anything like the space they started with. |
saved vs. new
custom millwork
C- Suite executive Floor Including the Boardroom
Electrical Contractor Executive Office Renovation: Escondido, CA
Pacific Ergonomics took on the entire executive floor and boardroom as one turnkey project. Every executive was interviewed individually so each office was designed around how they actually worked, not a one-size-fits-all layout. Each executive had unique goals challenges with items outside of office furniture that Pacific Ergonomics created solutions for including acoustics, lighting, air conditioning, storage, paint color, carpet and removing dated wood paneling that existed all over.
An Executive Suite With Character, And An Acoustic Problem No Panel Could Fix
Pacific Ergonomics was brought in to solve the bleed at the source, modernize five executive office furniture spaces, and run it all as one turnkey project.
Challenges
- Acoustic bleed between offices and the boardroom that made the offices and the boardroom almost unusable for high level sensitive meetings.
- Wood panels were all over the walls creating a dated aesthetic
- A worn stair carpet that could not be replaced without redoing the entire first floor
- Existing wallpaper, built ins, and even poles in offices did not look nice
- Lighting was dull and dated
- Furniture was not ergonomic or attractive
- There was not an effective way whiteboard strategy to brainstorm during meetings
- Heavy file cabinets crowding a room that needed a different use
- Air, lighting, paint, carpet and details had not been touched for decades
GOALS
- Determine the root of the acoustic problem before delivering a solution (It was not what the client thought it was)
- Modernize the entire dated executive floor and boardroom without a full teardown
- Keep the existing wood doors and trim rather than replace them
- Get more seating out of the boardroom without adding square footage
- Ensure the space for each executive met their goals and needs, yet integrated throughout the office
- Create a collaborative solution for each space
- Leverage existing built-in furniture where we could for cost savings
Each executive office and the boardroom had its own goals and its own problems to solve.
OFFICE 1
Goals: Expand this office so it could fit a larger conference table, a height adjustable L shaped desk and a credenza with coat closet. Also added a beverage station. Fix the acoustic bleed. Make use of dead space. Solve the pole blocking the window from becoming a glass board.
BEFORE
BEFORE: Executive office had issues with acoustic bleed, privacy, dead space, dated aesthetic, it wasn’t height adjustable and no space for a whiteboard. 
Not enough space to collaborate and have executive level meetings
BEFORE: POLE OBSTRUCTION
BEFORE- A pole was very visible in front of the glass that was going to be a glass board. We covered this pole with drywall. Total transformation.
AFTER: POLE COVERED WITH DRYWALL AND NEW OFFICE FURNITURE MADE TO SIZE
Coffee bar detail
Saved significant costs by not doing new millwork anywhere as they were leasing. Yet we made office furniture that fit their space exactly for a new coffee bar. Since they are leasing they wanted a built in millwork aesthetic, but needed to make sure they could take this with them when the lease expired.
Took a space that wasn’t being used and created a beverage coffee station. This was furniture made to look like Millwork. Cost savings and flexibility to move when the lease expires.
Glass, converted for privacy and glassboards
Transformed the existing glass to give the office privacy and add usable glass boards, thereby maximizing the space.
One area needed total privacy and we implemented black glassboard.
OFFICE 2
Goals: Create two separate meeting areas in the office for break out discussions. Fix the acoustics. Replace dated lighting and ceiling. Replace dark, dated built-ins and doors. Create real collaboration space instead of a single workstation.
An additional conference table and a desk for the traveling executive, laid out so meetings can happen in two different spots in the room without crowding the workspace.
Goals: Create a collaborative executive office with multiple places to have discussions and meetings. This executive traveled frequently and needed a desk that could convert to a conference table easily.
BEFORE
BEFORE: Dated millwork, unusable furniture for needs.
AFTER
Executive Office 3
Built in millwork that we leveraged. We painted it and added a refrigerator. New height adjustable L shaped executive desk, coat closet, sitting area and lounge chairs made this a functional, attractive new office. (New paint and carpet also)
BEFORE
Dated lighting and ceiling panels, air not circulating properly, and heavy file cabinets taking up needed space. 
Built in wood panels everywhere 
Dark wood built ins
OFFICE 4 (Guest Office)
Goals: Provide a height-adjustable executive desk for traveling executives. We also added one guest seat and a tackboard. Optimal flow + a place for a coat.
BEFORE
Dated case goods, no dedicated guest seating flow, no tackboard.
Boardroom
Goals: Modernize their current boardroom. Reused their existing conference chairs, and added a beautiful boat shaped conference table.
Removed dated millwork, but were able to leverage the bottom section with paint and a refrigerator, with a stone top to create a buffet. Retrofit the trash and fridge out of sight. Fixed the lighting with new LED lights, selected the carpet/paint color, solved a critical acoustic problem and also converted the glass windows to be a white board.
BEFORE
BEFORE: Dated with significant acoustic problems
Heavy wood panel, acoustic issues, poor lighting, dated. Did not look like a board room and sound could be heard in the hallways making it difficult to have high stakes private meetings. Seating capped at 12.
AFTER
Additional cost-saving moves across the Executive Office Renovation project
- Added power to the tables without floor coring or permits
- Reused existing chairs and matched new ones to complement rather than replacing full sets
- Retrofitted existing cabinets for a hidden fridge instead of new millwork
- Chose a paint color so the counters did not need replacing
- Left the wood doors unpainted, keeping their grain as part of the design
- Varnished all existing trim at no extra charge
- Chose a stair carpet so the entire first floor did not need replacing
- Left the canned lighting alone in one office since replacing it would not have improved the design
POWER ADDED IN FLOOR SINCE A FLOOR CORE WAS NOT POSSIBLE
What We Delivered to Our Client
The entire executive floor and boardroom were rebuilt around a real acoustic fix, not a surface refresh. We kept the wood doors and trim that gave the offices their character, saved over $100,000 by refinishing what was already there, and ended up with a boardroom that seats more people for large meetings.
- Solved the acoustic bleed across the entire executive floor and boardroom making it attractive and functionally usable for private meetings
- Modernized new executive office furniture customized for the functional needs of each executive
- Full design consulting, support with fixing air flow issues, lighting problems
- Reused and complemented existing furniture instead of replacing whole rooms like chairs or conference credenzas
- Converted unused space into usable intentional areas with the right office furniture
- Turned unused hallway space into a full executive office
- Handled all design from paint, carpet, decisions to keep their beautiful wood doors, removing paneling, painting cabinets.
- Converted existing glass into glass boards, giving executives both a writable surface and the privacy they needed
- Increased boardroom seating from 12 to 16 with an overflow plan for larger meetings
- Delivered as one turnkey project: construction, every finish, and furniture together
STEPHEN G.
PRESIDENT
One of the Divisions
Stephen G., President of One of the Divisions
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