Stradam inc.

Planning and designing of offices is one of Stradam’s specialty. A great number of relocation projects were made for clients such as Nortel Networks, Vidéotron, Visa Desjardins, Certen (a subsidiary of Bell Canada Entreprises), A&A Group, Industry Canada, AT&T, etc. This type of project requires a thorough knowledge of the company’s philosophy, a thorough organization of moving projects for each stage of the work as well as excellent coordination for the work to be done while maintaining daily operations and respecting employees regular work schedules. Meeting deadlines and budgets is also part of the priorities of our team of professionals. Projects range from $50,000 (2,000 sq.ft., 10 workstations) to $1,800,000 (54,000 sq.ft., 242 workstations). The list of projects Stradam worked on is available on our Internet site at http://www.stradam.com. Stradam has all of the necessary experience in architecture and interior design to realize user-friendly, ergonomic and functional planning projects.

Throughout these projects, we have had to manage renovation work in several stages (Dismed, Industry Canada) while maintaining the businesses’ daily operations running. We have produced technical plans with very tight schedules (Nortel Networks, Certen). We have designed innovative planning concepts (Nortel Networks, Université de Montréal). We have optimized the use of space available in order to answer the needs of several clients’ functional programs (Nortel Networks, Dismed, Université de Montréal, etc.). We have met technical challenges for the design of high technology laboratories (Nortel Networks). Also, in 2001, we are proud to say our team worked on a revision study of the architectural standards and planning criteria of the Complexe Guy-Favreau for Public Works and Government Services Canada. Such a study is the result of research conducted with all interior finish manufacturers respecting the environment and concerned with sustainable development.

Quality and Inovation

Stradam’s mission is to design work spaces which are stimulating and encourage creativity, motivate workers, increase productivity, encourage exchange between people and create a good team synergy while facilitating meetings and improving communication through the predominant use of open spaces, increasing the number of meeting rooms, oases and team workstations. We achieve our mission by making a judicious choice of colours and materials used to create harmonious working stations according to a precise plan while making use of a lighting design which combines normal daylight (opening spaces), indirect lighting and supplementary lighting. Our goal is to create evolving working spaces which are also flexible, transformable, adjustable and mobile. Our planning work aims to make these spaces accessible, and barrier-free, and therefore facilitating circulation with a clear orientation in order to avoid the maze effect (height of partitions, transparency of walls).

For new planning projects, we usually suggest a guideline which minimizes changes for future re-planning while improving the overall quality of the environment. We are in favour of applying a universal modular planning grid (” Universal Planning “) in order for planned spaces to become interchangeable, and therefore, optimizing the occupation of floors and encouraging speedy reorganization (employees moving from one workstation to the other).
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