Project Profile
- Location: New York, New York
- Project Size: 550,000 SF
- Building: 11 Floors
- Project Type: Corporate Headquarters Relocation
- Business Units: 10+ Global Divisions
- Managed FF&E Procurement: $16 Million
Executive Challenge
The project required the development of a scalable workplace platform capable of supporting multiple business divisions while maintaining enterprise consistency, procurement efficiency, and design integrity.
- Consolidating approximately 550,000 SF into one enterprise workplace platform
- Supporting more than 10 business divisions with varying operational requirements
- Balancing standardized workplace systems with brand-level flexibility
- Aligning design intent with procurement strategy and capital budgets
- Critical floor-to-floor dimensional variances required extensive field verification and planning controls, ensuring furniture solutions were developed from verified site conditions rather than design documents alone while protecting schedule, procurement accuracy, and installation quality
- Coordinating phased implementation across multiple manufacturers, vendors, and trades
Approach
- Design development partnership with STUDIOS Architecture
- Enterprise kit-of-parts programming and workplace standardization
- RFP development and competitive bid management
- Contract negotiations and procurement governance
- Cost management, budgeting, and benchmarking
- Furniture strategy, design due diligence, and risk advisory
- Furniture standards and performance specification development
- Mock-up development and product evaluation
- Process protocol, scheduling, and vendor management
- Procurement, purchasing, and supply chain management
- Installation oversight and construction integration
- On-site field support during phased move-in
- Quality assurance, project closeout, and Day-2 continuity
KPIs & Outcomes
- 20% capital savings achieved by reducing the FF&E investment
- 550,000 SF standardized under one enterprise workplace platform
- 10+ global business units successfully integrated through a flexible kit-of-parts strategy
- Long-term workplace performance validating the durability and adaptability of the implementation strategy
Impact
Rather than furnishing a corporate headquarters, the current Meraki leadership team developed an enterprise workplace strategy that aligned design, procurement, budgeting, and implementation into a scalable operating framework. The resulting kit-of-parts methodology, procurement governance, and standardized workplace platform reduced capital investment by approximately 20%, improved implementation efficiency, and established a repeatable workplace model supporting Sony's diverse business units while preserving design integrity and long-term operational performance.