Portview is a Universal Fit-out Specialist working within the retail, office, financial, hotel & leisure, and public sectors. Since our establishment in 1975, the company has enjoyed sustained growth and operates throughout the UK and Ireland. We deliver superior fit-out projects including retail fit-outs, fit-outs in the private and public sectors and office refurbishment, in a consistent and timely manner. Repeat contracts are a large proportion of our business with 95% of our customers returning in 2005. Customer satisfaction is, and remains, our highest priority.
Portview manage a broad spectrum of projects of all sizes.
These include:
- New unit fit-outs and retail fit-outs
- Office refurbishment projects
- Roll out Programmes
- Rebrands
- Large scale contracts
The Majority of these projects are repeat orders from satisfied clients - The highest recommendation we could ask for. We assist our Clients with design elements, planning approval, carry out surveys and project manage; or we may be appointed for our contracting abilities. The individual needs of each client and thier project are paramount and we rise to every challange with our enthusiasm for superior universal and retail fit-out solutions and office refurbishment.
Our approach is to work in tandem with our client and their team. We create an envionment of co-operation and commitment to help make your job easier. We understand the need for designs and projects to change or evolve during the contract period and react to these changes with our 'can do, will do'
attitude. We use our expertise across the full construction spectrum and our setting-out capabilities to deliver these retail fit-out and office refurbishment changes with minimum disruption to the scheduled programme.
We provide our clients with one contracts team to look after all your office refurbishment, universal and retail fit-out needs. Our clients benefit from working with the same project team as they fit-out or refurbish across the UK and Ireland. This allows for a consistant brand image and high quality project - time and time again. With each handover our contracts team takes valuable knowledge and experience to your next project. Each contracts team, consisting of a contracts manager and quantity surveyor, will manage all aspects of the project from the consultative phase through to completion. With an environment of co-operation and consultation you can be confident that your project is in experienced hands.
In this specialist sector, we understand how critical it is to deliver projects on time.
Our Client listing and level of repeat business is a testament to our ability to deliver on time, every time.
Our objective is to build long-term, open and trusting relationships with our clients. Our commitment to mutual respect and professionalism together with the provision of superior universal and retail fit-out solutions for our clients, means we are regarded as a valuable member of the project team. We have worked with the majority of our clients for a number of years and are proud to have palyed a major role in thier expansion and refurbishment activities.
On site, the contracts team are supported by a network of experienced site managers who work throughout the UK and Ireland and are equipped with mobiles and wireless laptops. Our site managers have senior trade experienceith an excellent eye for finishing and attention to detail. The consistantly high finishing skills of all our site managaers combined with their management experience means that every contract will recieve the same level of expertise and commintment.
Portview, as a leading universal and retail fit-out specialist, has teams covering projects throughout the UK and Ireland with company turnover split equally between the two in 2005. Our contracts teams have managed projects from Bognor Regis to Inverness and Derry to Cork. We have most likely worked in on a retail fit-out or office refurbishment at a location near you. Our Geographical coverage and experience allows us to handle any contract in any location within the UK and Ireland.
The Contracts teams work closely with our highly skilled CAD department to ensure 100% 'buildability' for every design brief. The success of the CAD department is a combination of setting out and on site experience combined with computer technology.
CAD involvement ranges from:
- Adding set out dimensions to site specific drawings
- Taking generic drawings and making them site sppecific
- Producing working fabrication drawings for all elements from a client's design.
Portview aim to make your job easier and to help do this we operate a contract extranet for larger projects. The client's project managers, designers and all contractors involved are given password protected access to the extranet. This acts as a central resource of all project related information including:
- Full contact list
- All drawings constantly updated
- Programme
- Meeting minutes
- Weekly site photographs
Portview Specialises in the fit-out and refubishment of bank branches and their corporate offices.
Specialist elements of financial fit-outs we manage:
- Complete design and build service
- Working around the operational hours of the bank
- Alarm and CCTV installation and alterations
- Providing secure bunkers for ATMs
- Four hour fire rated storage facilities
- Walk in safes
- Working on multiple sites concurrently
- Providing or altering data and voice communication systems from first fix to patch cabinet testing
- DDA programmes
Our teams appreciate the need for the completed fit-out to project an image of quality to the bank's customers as well as creating a dynamic office
environment for its staff.
An office fit-out managed by any one of our teams will provide the quality of finish, versatility and comfort required in todays modern office environment.
Office fitting services we provide include:
- Suspended ceilings
- Demontable partitions
- Raised computer floors
- Data cabling
- Air conditioning and ventilation systems
- Furniture installation
Our teams have experience woorking in occupied premises where we aim to minimise disruption to the daily work flow, and also in managing projects starting
with empty units involving the co-ordination of all services At all times we work closely with the designers and architects to ensure the realisation of the design is exactly as the client envisaged.
Portview deliver the complete retail fit-out service. With our focus always on our clients needs we work in partnership with the clients team to meet their
objectives on time and to budget. We are vastly experienced in providing fast track retail fit-outs throughout the UK and Ireland. Our client list and high level of repeat business is
testament to our exceptional performance in the demanding market.We approach all projects with a pro-active attitude to implement changes requested on site and to overcome potential complications that may arise to ensure stores are operational on time, every time.
The versatility or our skills and our project management expertise allows us to satisfy the entire spectrum of fit-out requirements within the leisure
industry.
Our experience within the hotel and leisure industry includes the fit-out and refurbighment of:
- Boutique restaurants
- Bookmaking chains
- Large hotel chains
- Bedroom refurbishment
- Back of house
- Restaurants and bars
- Front desk
- Conference and meeting facilities
Portview has many years experience in the detailed planning, client liasison and proactive project management required to successfully drive these projects
to completion to the exacting standards required.
Portview is well positioned to meet all the necessary public sector pre-qualification requirements such as health and seafety, financial standing, environmental procedures, insurances and equal opportunities.
Portview is generally awarded sector contracts through the competitive tender process and our teams are accustomed to:
- Working outside of office hours or out of term time to carry out disruptive operations.
- Phasing works to allow facilities to remain open
- The need for added security and safe access to sites
- Minimising the effect of noise pollution
- The installation of complex ICT
We are experts in project managing complex interior fit-outs on behalf of the public sector - either working with specialists, suppliers and sub contractors, named or nominated by the client, or creating a full service team on their behalf.
Our team, of highly skilled and trained professionals, provide the full fit-out service.
We work closely with our trusted network of subcontractors and specifically sourced suppliers, while our strategic liaisons with external specialists are used to provide additional expertise when required.
From guidance with initial designs, through to the planning and programming of each project, our full spectrum of services will result in the successful completion of every contract.
- Co-ordination of design
- Mechanical and electrical installation
- Heating, ventillation and air conditioning
- Wall paneling
- Mezzanine floor installation
- CAD design
- Joinery
- Painting
- Shopfitting system
- Flooring
- Loss prevention
- Shop fronts
- Signage
- Hard tiling
- Plasterboard and dry lining
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