Office fitout · Dubai

Office fitout in Dubai — without the downtime.

Fajr Interiors is an office fitout company in Dubai. Space planning, landlord and authority approvals, build and furniture run under one contract, for floors of 2,000–20,000 sqft. It is commercial office fitout in Dubai, for a single floor or several. Works are phased around your operation, so your team keeps working while the space changes. 50+ projects since 2011; approved on the One Za’abeel, Vision Tower and Opus Tower lists.

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Design & build · Office fitout · DubaiSince 2011

Finished breakout room on a Fajr Interiors office floor: timber wall joinery, glass partitions and a lit oval ceiling over a table-tennis table, Dubai — Breakout roomA finished Fajr office floor, Dubai

50+Projects delivered since 2011

2,000–20,000Sqft per floor — the scope we fit out

6–7 monthsTypical programme, brief to handover

SixAuthority registrations — Emaar, Nakheel, DDA, Trakhees, DM, DCD

Fitout files

Two offices, opened as files.

The brief, the constraint, the solution and the numbers for two executive floors. IMI at One Za’abeel ran 28 weeks from brief to handover at AED 840/sqft. Opus by Omniyat, a 24-week programme contracted at AED 726/sqft, is in its final weeks before handover. IMI’s full project, floor by floor, is on its own page.

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File 01

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IMI @ One Za’abeel

Brief: One floor where the team can work, move and unwind — sit-stand desks, task chairs that adjust to any body, a wellness room, and a full kitchen to eat and socialise.
Constraint: 8 December was a hard stop. The client had given their staff a move-in date and it could not move.
Solution: One team from brief to handover: three layout options, fifteen planning rounds to a signed plan, then approvals, build and furniture against the fixed date. Handed over on 8 December 2024, as planned.
Numbers: 5,000 sqft · AED 4.2M · 28 weeks · AED 840/sqft

Area: 5,000 sqft
Budget: AED 4.2M
Programme: 28 weeks
Rate: AED 840/sqft

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Design render of the reception at Opus by Omniyat, Dubai — the floor is under construction

Render · under construction

File 02 · In its final weeks

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Opus by Omniyat

Brief: A high-end workplace planned as an investment — specified to be sold on, so the money had to show in how the floor works before it showed in finishes.
Constraint: A fixed budget to value-engineer against, on a floorplate with very little natural light.
Solution: Function priced first, then materials — still high spec, never at the expense of the plan. Glass partitions wherever the layout allowed, so borrowed light reaches the core, and a lighting study behind every fitting specified.
Status: Under construction, in its final weeks before handover.
Numbers: 6,200 sqft · 24-week programme · contracted at AED 4.5M, AED 726/sqft

Area: 6,200 sqft
Contracted: AED 4.5M
Programme: 24 weeks, contracted
Contracted rate: AED 726/sqft

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The gallery

Offices we’ve delivered.

Boardrooms, CEO offices, workstations, receptions, lounges and pantries from office floors we have designed and built for ASI, Crypto One, Global Textiles and Serene in Dubai, and AlSubeai Investments in Jeddah. Every room was planned around how that client’s team works, then built by the same team that drew it.

CEO office delivered by Fajr Interiors for ASI, Dubai — **Executive offices**CEO office — ASI

Glass corridor delivered by Fajr Interiors for Global Textiles, Opus Tower, Dubai — **Workspaces**Glass corridor — Global Textiles

Boardroom delivered by Fajr Interiors for ASI, Dubai — **Boardrooms**Boardroom — ASI

Executive office delivered by Fajr Interiors for Global Textiles, Opus Tower, Dubai — **Executive offices**Executive office — Global Textiles

Boardroom delivered by Fajr Interiors for AlSubeai Investments, Jeddah — **Boardrooms**Boardroom — AlSubeai Investments

Workstations delivered by Fajr Interiors for Serene, Vision Tower, Dubai — **Workspaces**Workstations — Serene

Workstations delivered by Fajr Interiors for Crypto One, Dubai — **Workspaces**Workstations — Crypto One

Executive office with city view delivered by Fajr Interiors for Serene, Vision Tower, Dubai — **Executive offices**Executive office with city view — Serene

Client lounge delivered by Fajr Interiors for AlSubeai Investments, Jeddah — **Reception & lounges**Client lounge — AlSubeai Investments

Reception delivered by Fajr Interiors for Serene, Vision Tower, Dubai — **Reception & lounges**Reception — Serene

Lounge delivered by Fajr Interiors for ASI, Dubai — **Reception & lounges**Lounge — ASI

Pantry delivered by Fajr Interiors for Serene, Vision Tower, Dubai — **Workspaces**Pantry — Serene

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In their words

Fabian Munz, Managing Director of IMI Middle East, in the IMI office at One Za’abeel, Dubai — **Fabian Munz** · IMI
One Za’abeel · 5,000 sqft · AED 840/sqft

How a fitout runs

The Fajr Sequence The office fitout timeline in Dubai, from brief to handover.

An office fitout in Dubai runs 6–7 months from brief to handover: 4 weeks of space planning, 2–4 weeks of landlord and authority approvals, 16–18 weeks of build and 2 weeks to furnish. Eight decisions sit inside those four gates, and each one closes before the work that depends on it starts.

Design render of the IMI reception, One Za’abeel, Dubai, 2024

Design render of the IMI private offices, One Za’abeel, Dubai, 2024

Design render of the IMI boardroom, One Za’abeel, Dubai, 2024

Design render of the IMI phone booth, One Za’abeel, Dubai, 2024

Design render of the IMI wellness room, One Za’abeel, Dubai, 2024

Design render of the IMI social lounge, One Za’abeel, Dubai, 2024

Design render of the IMI kitchen, One Za’abeel, Dubai, 2024

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Brief

Define what the project has to achieve before anyone starts drawing.

Why it matters

Agree the priorities before time is spent designing the wrong solution.

Gate 01 · Space planning4 weeks

6–7 monthsbrief to handover, approvals inside the programme

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Start here

“We've outgrown our office. How do we begin?”

Step one isn't a layout. It's headcount, workflow, and your lease dates. We map how your team actually works — focus, meetings, hybrid days — and what your landlord and authorities require, then set the programme against the lease. The design follows the operation.

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What you leave with

A space plan against real headcount
A phasing plan around your lease dates
A number — one contract, one team

Space planning4 wks
Headcount, workflow, lease dates
Approvals2–4 wks
Drawings, landlord and authority approvals
Build16–18 wks
Phased works, out of hours where needed
Furnish2 wks
Furniture, snagging, move-in

Scope

What kind of office fitout are you planning?

Most offices fall into one of four scopes. The method is the same for all of them — plan, approve, build, furnish, in that order — but the approvals, the phasing and the number are not. A new tenancy runs 6–7 months; the other three are programmed against your lease at survey.

New office · Cat A to Cat B

A new tenancy, fitted to your lease dates.

From the landlord’s shell to a working office: test fit, approvals, partitions, MEP alterations, joinery, AV and furniture under one contract. The scope where the rent-free period is the programme.

6–7 months · Landlord + DDA/DM + DCD

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Refurbishment in place

The same floor, without moving out.

Re-planning and refinishing an occupied office in zones — each zone handed back before the next opens, loud trades after hours. The scope where phasing is the whole job.

Landlord + DCD where layouts change

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Expansion

The suite next door, or the floor above.

Taking adjacent space or a second floor: interconnecting stairs, split HVAC and power, and phased occupation so the existing floor keeps working.

Landlord + authority + DCD; a modification where units combine

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Multi-floor HQ

Several floors, one identity.

Reception, client floors and staff floors planned as one building-within-a-building; delivered floor by floor on a dated stack plan.

Landlord + authority + DCD per floor

We fit out floors of 2,000–20,000 sqft. The New office programme is the published 6–7 months: 4 weeks planning, 2–4 approvals, 16–18 build, 2 furnish. Every other scope is programmed against your lease dates at survey. Book a site survey →

Where the budget goes

What a fitout actually costs, line by line.

Office fitout cost in Dubai — the nine lines, in the order they hit site.

An office fitout in Dubai is delivered in two categories. Cat A is the base a good building hands over — cooling working, flooring and ceilings done. Some buildings hand over shell and core instead. Cat B is your office: the layout, partitions, meeting rooms, joinery, branding, furniture, AV and the MEP alterations that make the plan work.

Office design and fitout, or design-and-build, means one company is responsible for the test fit, the landlord and authority approvals, the site and the furniture under a single contract — so the programme runs against your lease dates and no gap between suppliers is left for you to own.

Nine lines, in the order they hit site. These are illustrative allocations, not a quotation or verified averages; your specification moves the weight between the lines, not the order.

Indicative allocation · nine linesIllustrative allocations, not a quotation or verified averages

#LineShareWhat sits inside

01Approvals & permits4%Landlord approval, authority permits, Civil Defence submissions, utility NOCs.

02Preliminaries7%Site setup, protection, out-of-hours access, supervision, insurances.

03Demolition & strip-out3%Removing the previous tenancy back to shell or Cat A.

04Partitions & ceilings14%Glazed fronts, drywall, acoustic ceilings, raised floor adjustments.

05MEP20%HVAC modification, power, containment, sprinklers, fire alarm, BMS tie-in.

06Flooring & finishes12%Carpet tile, vinyl, stone at reception, paint, wall protection.

07Joinery & millwork13%Reception desk, pantry, lockers, storage walls, feature panelling.

08AV, IT & security9%Screens, VC rooms, structured cabling, access control, CCTV.

09Furniture (FF&E)18%Workstations, task seating, meeting and breakout furniture, plants.

Selected line

MEP · 20%

HVAC modification, power, containment, sprinklers, fire alarm, BMS tie-in.

In this illustration, MEP and furniture take nearly four of every ten dirhams. Cut either one late and you pay for it twice.

Cost bands by specification, and what moves the number →Cat A vs Cat B, in full →

Test fit

Count the desks before you sign.

Before you sign a lease, we test fit the floor three ways and count the desks, so the floorplate decision is made on numbers rather than on a landlord’s brochure. The three worked plans, with their desk counts and the planning mistakes a test fit catches early, are laid out in full on our office interior design page.

IllustrativeHybrid test fit · 11,000 sqft

Three test fits, counted

Phasing

Your floor changes, your working day doesn’t.

Your team keeps working while the floor changes. Works are split into zones, each zone is handed back before the next one opens, and the loud trades run out of hours, all on a phasing plan agreed before we mobilise. How a lived-in floor is divided into zones is set out on our office renovation page.

DrawnHanded-back zone · live works

How we zone a live floor

Where we work

We already know your building.

Office fitout contractors in Dubai: One Za’abeel, DIFC, Business Bay, JLT, d3 and the free zones.

Every tower and free zone runs its own fitout regime: access rules, lift bookings, out-of-hours policies and the name of the person who signs the fitout application. We are on the approved contractor lists at One Za’abeel, Vision Tower, Opus Tower and Emaar Square, and registered in the DMCC, DIFC and JAFZA free zones.

One Za’abeel

Approved contractor list: One Za’abeel.

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Vision Tower

Approved contractor list: Vision Tower.

DIFC

Free-zone registration: DIFC.

Business Bay towers

Approved contractor lists: Vision Tower and Opus Tower.

JLT / DMCC

Free-zone registration: DMCC.

Dubai Design District (d3)

DDA registration.

Free-zone buildings

Free-zone registrations: DMCC, DIFC and JAFZA.

Approved lists: One Za’abeel · Vision Tower · Opus Tower · Emaar Square

Buildings we have delivered floors in

Choosing a contractor

Choosing between office fitout companies in Dubai: check the contractor before the price.

When you compare office fitout companies in Dubai, find out who signs for design, build and approvals, whose licence goes on the permit submissions, and whether the bid is itemised against drawings. The full contractor checks, each with our own answer, are on our page for fitout companies in Dubai, beside a bid audit that shows which easily-missed lines a quote leaves out. On Google, Fajr Interiors is rated 4.4 from 20 reviews (October 2026).

IllustrativeTwo bids, line by line

The contractor checks

On film

Instagram · Fajr HQ
We built this for ourselves.
Six months ago this corner of our office was bare concrete and cable trays. If a contractor won’t build it properly for themselves, don’t let them near your office.
Instagram · Zeeshan Patel
Don’t fall for the lowest number.
Compare the exact scope, the materials and who is actually managing your site. That is where the real cost hides.
Instagram · Opus Tower
Joinery going in at Opus Tower.
The moment a site starts to feel like the space you designed: a walkthrough of the custom joinery installation.

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On site with us.

Curved glass office pod still under protection film on a Fajr fitout site, Dubai

Curved glass, before the film comes off

Glass partitions being installed on an office fitout site, Dubai

Glass partitions going in

Client site meeting beside walnut joinery panels at Opus by Omniyat, Dubai

Site meeting as the joinery goes up

Ceiling canopy framing on an office fitout site, Dubai

Framing the ceiling canopy

Open office ceiling with services and acoustic baffles during a fitout, Dubai

Above the ceiling: services and acoustic baffles

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Office FAQ

Questions we get before every fitout.

Office fitout FAQ — Dubai.

01How long does an office fitout take in Dubai?

The typical programme for a Cat B fitout is 6–7 months, brief to handover — 4 weeks space planning, 2–4 weeks approvals, 16–18 weeks build, 2 weeks furnish. Landlord and authority approvals sit inside that, not after it. Phased delivery runs longer in calendar time by design — the trade is that your team keeps working.

02What's the difference between Cat A and Cat B?

Cat A is the base a good building hands over — cooling working, flooring and ceilings done; some buildings hand over shell and core instead. Cat B is your office: layout, joinery, meeting rooms, branding, furniture, AV and the MEP alterations that make the plan work. We deliver Cat B from either starting point.

03What approvals does a Dubai office fitout need?

Building management and landlord approval come first, then the authority with jurisdiction over your building — DDA, a free-zone authority, or Dubai Municipality — plus civil defence sign-off on fire and life safety. Approvals run 2–4 weeks inside the programme. We prepare and submit the packages.

04Can we stay operational during the works?

Usually yes. We zone the works, hand each zone back before opening the next, and run the loud trades out of hours. The phasing plan is agreed before we mobilise, so you know which desks move in which week, and your team keeps working.

05Who are the best office fitout companies in Dubai?

The right company is the one on your building’s approved contractor list, which files the permit submissions under its own licence and prices line by line against drawings. Fajr Interiors is on the approved lists at One Za’abeel, Vision Tower, Opus Tower and Emaar Square, and holds trade licence 648890. On Google, Fajr Interiors is rated 4.4 from 20 reviews (October 2026).

06Do you work with our landlord and building management?

Yes — fitout guides, permits, insurances, contractor accreditation, access and lift bookings are handled by us, as part of the one contract. We are on the approved contractor lists at One Za’abeel, Vision Tower, Opus Tower and Emaar Square. None of it lands on your office manager's evening.

07What does an office fitout cost per sqft in Dubai?

An office fitout in Dubai starts at AED 350 per sqft for shell-to-occupied — partitions, ceilings, flooring, MEP alterations and joinery. Turnkey, with FF&E, IT, AV, automation and appliances included, runs AED 600–850 per sqft. IMI at One Za’abeel landed at AED 840 per sqft; Opus by Omniyat, in its final weeks before handover, is contracted at AED 726. Payments are staged against milestones: 10% advance at contract award, 20% on approvals, 30% at the MEP milestone, 30% at the civil works milestone and 10% at handover.

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Tell us about the space, the headcount and the lease dates. We'll come back with a scope, a sequence, and a straight number.

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Trade licence 648890 · Interior contracting, G+1 approved contractor (Dubai Municipality) · Registered with Emaar, Nakheel, DDA, Trakhees, Dubai Civil Defence · DMCC, DIFC and JAFZA free zones

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