Project Management for
Commercial Renovations
From Initial Concept to Final Completion
At Rieke, we specialize in seamless project management for commercial renovations. Our comprehensive approach ensures that every aspect of your project is meticulously planned and executed, from initial concept through to final completion.
Rieke takes the renovation project off your desk. We plan the space, design it, build the furniture in our own facility, coordinate the trades, and install, with one project manager accountable for all of it.
Design. Build. Install.
What Our Project Management Covers
Project management at Rieke means the whole job, from the first walkthrough to the last punch-list item. Here is what that includes.
Planning and Scheduling
Every project gets a master schedule at contract, built backward from your target move-in date. We order long-lead items first, track milestones weekly, and flag anything that threatens the date before it does.
Budget Management
You see one budget with line-item transparency, and our designers present tiered options so you choose the level that fits. Nothing changes without a written change order showing the cost and schedule impact, signed by you first.
Vendor & Trade Coordination
We facilitate contractor bidding, manage licensed trades directly, and handle deliveries, dock schedules, and building logistics. For most renovations under 25,000 square feet with no major structural changes, no separate general contractor is needed.
On-Site Supervision & Quality
Our project team stays on-site through construction, inspecting work as it happens rather than after. The job closes with a full walkthrough and punch list, and installation labor is warrantied for a year.
Furniture Manufacturing
This is the part no dealer can offer. While your site is under construction, our 150,000 square foot Elgin facility is building your furniture in parallel, on the same schedule and managed by the same team.
Move and Installation Management
Phased installs, nights and weekends, occupied buildings, full relocations. We inventory what you own, help you decide what moves and what's decommissioned, and can arrange resale or donation for the rest.
How it Works
Step 1
Discover
We walk your space, learn how your team works, and find out what the building allows. A 20-minute call and a floor plan are enough to start.
Step 2
Plan and Design
Our designers plan the reception area as a whole and present concepts covering layout, desk design, materials, finishes, and lighting. You react, we refine, and nothing moves toward production until the design says what you want it to say.
Step 5
Support
Adjustments, additions, and reconfigurations stay with us, because we still manufacture every line we install.
Step 3
Build
Construction and furniture manufacturing run in parallel, our factory building while the trades work, so the two schedules move together instead of in line.
Step 4
Install
Phased and after-hours where the building requires it, finished with a walkthrough and punch list.
Project Timelines
For a 5,000 to 25,000 square foot renovation with custom furniture, most projects run 12 to 25 weeks from first call to install. The biggest variables are permitting, finish decisions, and scope, and your weekly schedule update shows exactly how each is tracking against the date.
Your Dedicated Project Manager
From contract through punch list, one dedicated project manager owns scope, schedule, budget, and quality. They coordinate every trade, watch every detail on-site, and resolve issues before they reach your desk. After installation, your account executive becomes your long-term contact for additions, warranty, and whatever your space needs next. You never explain your project twice.
Transparent Communication
You get a weekly status call, regular progress updates, and a project manager who answers the phone in between. Clear, open communication means you always know where the project stands, and you're never the last to hear about a change.
Quality Assurance
Your project manager inspects the work against Rieke's standards as it happens, from the trades on-site to the furniture leaving our factory floor. The job closes with a full walkthrough and punch list, installation labor is warrantied for a year, and you get the peace of mind of knowing your renovation is in expert hands.
Projects We Manage
Rieke’s project management includes full office renovations, refreshes and reconfigurations, expansions for growing headcount, relocations and moves, and furniture-only projects that need a steady hand on delivery and installation.
We manage projects across corporate, financial, healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing, and education environments, each with its own regulatory and operational demands.
One Turnkey Partner
Most renovation problems come from handoffs. A designer specs it, a dealer orders it, a contractor builds around it, and when something arrives late or wrong, each one points at the other while your schedule slips.
No Juggling Vendors
Rieke removes the handoffs. One team designs the space, manufactures the furniture, manages the construction, and installs, so accountability never changes hands. There is no vendor across the table to point at. There is Rieke, and we fix it.
The rest is discipline. We survey your space before construction so an older building's surprises get found early, lock finish selections before they can stall the schedule, and recommend a 5 to 10 percent contingency so the unexpected gets absorbed by the plan instead of the relationship.
FAQs
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Usually neither, to start. Under 25,000 square feet with no structural changes, Rieke manages licensed trades directly. Load-bearing walls, life-safety changes, or municipal permitting call for an architect of record, and while we don't submit permits ourselves, we recommend trusted partners and coordinate with them. We'll tell you which model fits on the first call.
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Yes, and most of our projects work this way. We sequence floor by floor, install nights and weekends, set up swing space and dust barriers, and coordinate elevators, security, and building services, so your team can still hear themselves on a Tuesday morning call while the floor above them changes.
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Every change goes through a written change order with scope, cost impact, schedule impact, and your signature before work proceeds. When we uncover a hidden condition, we pause, document it, and present two or three options with the trade-offs, and work continues only with your sign-off.
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Square footage and a floor plan if one exists, headcount now and in three years, lease status, a target date, and a rough budget range. Missing pieces are normal, and a 20-minute discovery call fills the gaps.
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Yes. We've completed projects in more than 20 states, deploying our own install team within a four-hour radius of Elgin and vetted partner crews beyond it, managed to Rieke standards.
Bring Your Rennovation Dreams To Life
Get in touch below, and we’ll reach out to schedule a call to learn about your interior design needs, the scope of your project, your style, your goals, and what inspires you.