Commercial and multi-family
Walk the space with the people who'll work in it.
Offices, clinics, restaurants, retail units and multi-family plans. Test the layout at full size with your staff before the fit-out, while moving a wall is still free.
What teams check on the floor
Clinics
Treatment rooms, sterilization, staff sightlines and reception: walk the patient route and the staff route and see where they cross.
Restaurants
The path from kitchen to dining room, server stations, and room for wheelchairs between tables.
Retail
Aisle widths and sightlines, tested with the staff who'll stock the shelves.
Offices
Desks, meeting rooms and circulation, at the size the lease drawing says they are.
Multi-family
Walk each unit plan the way a tenant or buyer will. Sessions are priced per unit plan.
Accessibility
Check turning circles, door widths and counter access at full size before construction.
Planning guides
Layout rules by business type
- Commercial kitchen requirements in Alberta: a restaurant layout guideAHS must approve a scaled plan before you build an Alberta restaurant or cafe. Sinks by menu, hand sinks within 8 m, people per 100 m² and washroom counts.Read the guide
- Daycare space requirements in Alberta: planning the layoutAn Alberta daycare needs 3 m² of play space per licensed child, plus outdoor space, sinks and toilets set by AHS and the code. Here's how it becomes rooms.Read the guide
- Dental office layout in Alberta: reprocessing and accessAlberta's dental college says a new or renovated office must consider a separate reprocessing room with one-way flow. The rules and Calgary permit data.Read the guide
- Medical clinic layout in Alberta: exam rooms and accessAlberta physician clinics need 915 mm doors, power door operators and one exam room in five with a 1 700 mm turning space. The rules as of September 2026.Read the guide
- Office layout in Calgary: exits, corridors and washroomsAlberta's code counts an office at 9.30 m² per person and wants two exit doors once a suite passes 200 m² (300 m² sprinklered). The rules as of October 2026.Read the guide
- Salon floor plan in Alberta: reprocessing, sinks and washroomsAn Alberta salon floor plan keeps tool reprocessing where clients can't go and out of any toilet room, and counts 4.60 m² per person. The rules, October 2026.Read the guide
Bigger spaces, same idea
Across the 1to1 Plans network, studios have walked plans as large as an elementary school of more than 200,000 square feet and a city hall of more than 70,000.
Alberta's health system tests new care spaces with full-scale mockups before they're built. The floor gives any business the same test without building the mockup.
Large plans are walked a section at a time, so every room still gets checked at its real size.
Questions
How is commercial pricing set?
By the size of the space, or for multi-family, by how many different unit plans you want to walk. Send the plan for a free quote and the studio replies with a price and a time.
Can the whole team come?
Yes. The more of the people who'll use the space are in the room, the more problems get found on the floor instead of after opening.
Do you handle industrial spaces?
Yes, industrial is one of the project types the studio books.
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Every day, 9 am to 5 pm, by appointment. In the South Airways business park in northeast Calgary, with parking at the door.
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