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Rates · indicative, 2026

A rate per square foot, and what is inside it.

Rates vary with specification more than with contractor, so these are bands rather than a single number — and each one lists what is included, because that is where two quotes for the same job differ by forty per cent.

Office fit-out, Cat B

مكاتب

320–560 AED / sq ft

A 4,000 sq ft floor: AED 1.3 m – 2.2 m, 10 weeks

INCLUDED

  • —Partitions, doors and ironmongery
  • —Ceilings, flooring and paint
  • —MEP alterations within the demise
  • —Loose-furniture coordination
  • —Authority approvals and Civil Defence NOC

NOT INCLUDED

Furniture, AV and IT cabling beyond the containment. Landlord Cat A reinstatement if your lease requires it at the end.

Retail, mall unit

متاجر

550–950 AED / sq ft

A 900 sq ft unit: AED 500 k – 850 k, 8–10 weeks

INCLUDED

  • —Shopfront and glazing
  • —Bespoke joinery from our own workshop
  • —Feature lighting and track
  • —Mall landlord approvals and out-of-hours works
  • —Barricade, permits and night-shift labour

NOT INCLUDED

Brand-supplied fixtures and the mall's own contractor charges for utilities and hoarding removal.

F&B, full kitchen

مطاعم

900–1700 AED / sq ft

A 2,200 sq ft restaurant: AED 2.2 m – 3.6 m, 14–18 weeks

INCLUDED

  • —Kitchen extract, make-up air and grease duct
  • —Food & safety and Civil Defence submissions
  • —Drainage, grease trap and floor falls
  • —Bar and back-of-house joinery
  • —Commissioning with the kitchen supplier

NOT INCLUDED

Kitchen equipment itself, and any structural work to the landlord's shell.

Villa refurbishment

فلل

400–800 AED / sq ft

A 6,000 sq ft villa: AED 2.4 m – 4.8 m, 16–24 weeks

INCLUDED

  • —Strip-out and structural alterations by others
  • —Full MEP replacement where required
  • —Stone, joinery and wardrobes
  • —Dubai Municipality permit and inspections
  • —Landscaping coordination

NOT INCLUDED

Pools, structural steel and anything requiring a new building permit rather than a modification permit.

Joinery only

نجارة

— Quoted per item

Wardrobes, reception desks, bars, cladding — supplied to other contractors as well as our own sites

INCLUDED

  • —Shop drawings within 5 working days
  • —Veneer and stone samples before cutting
  • —Our own workshop, not a subcontracted one
  • —Site survey after first fix, never from the architect's drawing alone

NOT INCLUDED

Nothing — but lead times run 4 to 7 weeks from approved shop drawings, and no amount of pressure changes a veneer delivery.

Payment

Five stages, and a retention we actually release.

25%On signature of the contract, before mobilisation
35%On completion of first fix, certified by your consultant
30%On practical completion and Civil Defence NOC
10%On handover of the O&M manuals and as-built drawings
5%Retention, released 12 months after handover
Variations

Priced before the work, never after.

  • 01No variation is executed without a signed VO carrying a price and a programme impact in days.
  • 02Prices are from the same rate schedule as the tender, not re-priced because you are committed.
  • 03Anything we find behind a wall that changes the scope is photographed, priced and sent the same day.
  • 04If a variation cannot be priced within 24 hours, we say so rather than starting on the promise of agreeing later.
Questions
Why is your rate higher than the quote I have from Al Quoz?

Usually because ours includes the approvals, the Civil Defence NOC, the out-of-hours labour and the joinery, and theirs does not. Ask any contractor to price the same five inclusions we list on the rates page and compare that number instead.

Can you beat a twelve-week programme?

On a small retail unit, sometimes. On F&B, no — the extract, the grease duct and the Food & Safety approval have a floor of about fourteen weeks and anyone promising nine has not read your kitchen layout.

Do you do design as well?

We do shop drawings, coordination and value engineering. We do not do concept design, and we work better when someone else has done it — a contractor marking their own homework is how scope creeps.

What happens if you are late?

Liquidated damages at the rate in the contract, capped, and applied without an argument. We have paid them twice since 2014 and both times we told the client before they asked.

Do you work outside Dubai?

Abu Dhabi and Sharjah, yes, with the relevant authority instead of DM. Northern emirates only for projects above AED 2 m, because the travel makes anything smaller bad for both of us.