Clearpath provides office strip-outs across the GTA. Its contribution is the agreed interior removal, with building systems and any structural work assigned separately to the responsible project teams.
Give each floor its own destination
Begin with what each level needs to become. Distinguish a landlord handback, a selective workplace refit and a floor that is being prepared before the new tenant’s design is complete. These destinations can require different removal endpoints within the same building.
Use a simple floor-by-floor schedule tied to the drawings. Describe retained rooms, partitions and finishes in words as well as colours. A copied note saying “strip to shell” can conceal a meeting suite that the new design actually intends to keep.
| Floor situation | Define before assessing removal |
|---|---|
| Vacant floor for a new fit-out | The required exposed surfaces and retained base-building elements |
| Floor with useful rooms remaining | The room boundaries, connecting ceilings and floor transitions |
| Floor awaiting a move | The release condition and authorised person confirming it |
| Floor without a final tenant layout | The limited landlord preparation justified by current information |
Follow the connections between floors
An interior drawing for one level may not show the service route or activity that depends on another. Ask building management and the relevant trades to identify shared systems and access needs. Clearpath’s removal sequence should follow their agreed arrangements rather than deciding how the building operates.
Also distinguish an internal staircase or other structural connection from ordinary fit-out. Its presence does not make removal part of an office strip-out. Keep any unresolved building alteration outside the released interior scope until the appropriate team has defined it.
Release useful areas, not just calendar dates
A date is meaningful when it corresponds to a floor that is available for the specified work. Confirm that contents have been dealt with, retained areas are identified and the building arrangements apply to that release.
For an illustrative consolidation, the client might keep a furnished meeting suite on one floor while two vacant floors are prepared for different occupiers. The retained meeting rooms change the physical removal boundary; the different occupiers change what each receiving contractor needs. One generic floor specification would miss both decisions.
Join removal to the next trade’s programme
Agree how the GC will inspect completed areas and release them to installers. A cleared room may still need repairs or new building-service work before its finishes can be installed. Identify that next operation rather than calling every cleared floor “ready for fit-out”.
The commercial-demolition service provides the broader scope discussion. The multi-floor plan should remain a manageable set of floor packages, with changes authorised through the project lead so the crew and receiving trades use the same revision.
Discuss the floors together
Request a Clearpath estimate with the building address, number of affected floors, proposed use of each and rooms that remain. Have the layouts and management requirements ready to discuss. Identify which floors are released now and which still depend on another decision.
Identify relocatable systems by floor
Where a floor includes demountable walls, settle reuse, relocation or removal with the appropriate installer before including them in the ordinary floor package. Different floors can have different destinations for similar-looking partitions.