The document provides information about a commercial interior design and architecture firm called EPCS. It includes sections about the company profile, team, values, technology used, and a project example for TALDirect. The key points are: - EPCS is an international commercial interior design and architecture firm that provides world-class design solutions across various sectors such as commercial, healthcare, education, and more. - They have an experienced team of architects, designers, and project managers located across various global offices. - EPCS focuses on understanding client needs and delivering flexible, inspiring, and sustainable design solutions that add value. - They invest heavily in BIM technology and sustainable practices to efficiently design and deliver projects.

1. Company
Profile
Commercial
Interior Design
Architecture
Master Planning
Interior Design
Graphics
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2. 3 Introduction
4 Our Team
10 Commercial Interior Design
12 Company Profile
14 Project Experience
Contents
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3. Introduction
Our ethos is excellence in design and delivery; working across
architecture, masterplanning, interior design, and graphic design,
our mission is to understand our clients’ cultural, functional,
operational and commercial needs, drawing on our Thought
Leadership and experience to facilitate solutions that work,
we believe these to be the essence of good design.
The vision of our internationally experienced Team
is built upon the conviction that good design is
delivered by professionals that have an intrinsic
understanding of the cultural, social and
commercial needs of our clients, the end-users
and the communities for which we are designing.
EPCS mission is to provide vivid world-class design
solutions to our clients. Our Team brings together
local understanding and international experience
through Thought Leadership, creative excellence
and design vision to consistently deliver projects
that are both inspiring for the end user and that add
value through cultural understanding, commercial
understanding, cost effectiveness and sustainability
for our clients.
EPCS is a dynamic practice of versatile architects,
masterplanners and designers with global vision
and international experience. The Team is
recognised for its design excellence and depth of
experience in large and medium scale projects
across all sectors. We operate across USA, India,
Australia with our head offices in Pennsylvenia and
global affiliations with offices in Italy and Shanghai.
We offer extensive expertise and experience
across the following sectors:›››››››
›Aged & Health Care
›Mixed-use developments
›Residential
›Commercial Workplace & Corporate
›Education & Institutional
›Retail & Leisure
›Hospitality.
We are a multi-disciplinary design practice with
a seamless range of design expertise from
masterplan to delivery:››››››
›Architecture
›Masterplanning
›Interiors
›Graphics
›Delivery
›Consultancy.
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4. Our collaborative approach and
ability to change and adapt to
project diversities ensures we
create great outcomes for our
clients. Versatility is mirrored
in the people who design
these environments.
Our team is made up of an
eclectic and talented group of
highly skilled individuals.
Together, we apply these skills
to realise meaningful outcomes
that are vivid and versatile.
OurTeam
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6. OurTeam
Ritesh Pandit
Founder & Director
B.E, MBA
Responsible for the Business
Development, Sales and Project
Management works produced by
the practice.
Broad based design experience
ranging from residential,
industrial, commercial fitout
projects through to large
institutional projects. Ritesh’s
commitments in the EPCS office
are often directed to a number of
projects in an over viewing role
ensuring allocated resources are
well supported within the office
to enable a flawless delivery to be
realised.
Frank Bambino
Director BArch
(Hons)
Frank is passionate about
creating environments that
enhance the quality of life for
the people that live and work
in these spaces. Responsible
for the practice development
and management, Frank is
client focused with thorough
grounding in project initiation,
masterplans, feasibility,
development, coordination
and delivery.
Petar Danicic
Sydney Practice Manager /
Associate
With a career spanning more
than 30 years in the building
industry, Petar has developed
a passion for delivering
high quality, detailed and
sophisticated architecture and
interior design.
Petar has an extensive portfolio
of projects and experience with
expertise in a variety of
commercial and recreational
buildings, building renewal,
workspace and residential
projects interfaced with ideation
to interior lighting design.
He has worked in London,
Dubai, Tokyo, Oman and
Ho Chi Minh City.
He is a passionate mentor
offering years of expertise sharing
knowledge to emerging practice
personal for professional
development and self-betterment
providing an important platform
to the EPCS team.
One of the many points
of difference between
EPCS and our
competitors is that the
personnel you meet on
day one are actively
involved until the end of
the project.
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7. Mark Allan
Associate - Process & Workflow
BArch (Hons)
Mark is a project architect with
experience in Australia and
the UK. Mark has experience
in a range of projects and has had
involvement in all work stages
from concept design through to
construction and completion.
Mark is in charge of Process and
Workflow, reviewing our
approach to design and
documentation and assessing the
best tools for each project phase
to ensure the best outcome is
achieved for clients and the end
user.
Richard Nathan
Associate / Technical Director
Richard is in charge of
the Technical delivery and
Consultant Coordination of all
projects. He has a technical
ability that many in the
industry have said is second to
none. This ability enables him
to drive, challenge and
coordinate consultants to
ensure operational drivers and
efficiencies are realised for the
buildings life span and ensures
surprises during construction are
kept to a minimum due to well
coordinated documentation and
services integration.
Over 30 years of professional
experience working on a
broad spectrum of projects,
including residential, health care,
corporate and hospitality.
Expertise and knowledge
covering all stages from project
initiation through to design
development, contract
documentation and contract
administration. High level
technical delivery skills as well as
experience as an expert witness
in building disputes, insurance
assessment and cost recovery.
Lin Zhu
Associate
BArch (Hons)
Lin is an ARBV award winning
Architect, with more than 10
years of experience in delivering
many successful Residential,
Aged Care, Retirement Living,
Mixed use and Institutional
projects.
She is passionate about socially,
economically and
environmentally responsive
architecture that adapts to our
modern life, and how such
architecture plays a dynamic
role to support and shape each
individual development and the
future of our society.
Lin is also driving our
expansion into the Chinese
market. Her bilingual skills and
understanding of Chinese
culture is pivotal in nurturing
multi-national relationships.
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8. OurTeam
A Anthony Project
Architect MArch
BPD
Ashleigh is a project architect
with a broad range of experience
across a variety of architectural
sectors, including aged care,
education, corporate interiors,
single and multi-residential.
Having been a part of the
V-Arc team for the past eight
years, Ashleigh places a high
value on developing client
relationships to obtain a clear
understanding of client aims,
aspirations and goals particular
to each project, and she relishes
the opportunity to then work
through all stages of the design
and construction process with
clients to deliver spaces that not
only achieve these goals, but
enhance the experience for all
users of the space.
Alison P.
Senior Interior Designer
AdvDipIntDes
Alison adopts a client focussed
approach to her project
leadership. She intrinsically
understands the value of an in
depth client briefing process to
deliver bespoke, relevant and
innovative designs.
Alison has led a diverse range
of projects including large
scale international projects,
corporate and workplace
environments and complex
mixed-use schemes.
She brings strong and
collaborative leadership
skills to design, delivery and
project management; she is
currently leading a number
of the EPCS’s high profile
Interior Design projects.
Emma A. Senior Interior
Designer BArts (Interior
Design)
With over ten years experience
working as an Interior Designer
in Melbourne, Emma has led a
diverse range of successful
projects including Commercial,
Educational and Institutional.
With her ability to relate to
clients’ and her industry network
on both a constructive and
amicable level, Emma is focused
on creating strong professional
relationships and positive project
outcomes.
With exemplary design, planning
and detailing skills, Emma
has the ability to drive ideas
forward, and manage projects
from inception to completion,
delivering on time and budget.
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9. Chris J. Senior Interior
Designer BIntArch
Chris embodies EPCS method to
design through his approach to
servicing our client’s needs and
expectations across a broad
range of projects and sectors
including corporate office fit-
outs, workplace design, retail,
hospitality and aged care.
Chris brings extensive experience
in the sphere of commercial and
corporate workplace design and a
fundamental understanding of
key project drivers, conceptual
design, spatial planning and
project delivery. He engages with
all stakeholders from the
inception to the completion and
hand over of a project to ensure
that the client receives a tailored
outcome relevant to and
engaging with their needs.
Chris believes good interior
design to be a powerful enabler
in influence the way people
interact with each other and
create dialogue.
Richard Healy
Senior Interior Designer
BArts (IntFurDes) (Hons)
Richard has an extensive range
of project and sector
experiences across workplace,
institutional, hospitality, retail
and sports environments across
Australia and Europe.
He brings a particular focus
on the change management
processes working with clients to
understand, analyse and
interpret clients current and
future processes, environments
and ways of working to enhance
the experience for their
customers and staff alike.
He relishes the opportunity to
deliver environments that add
value to all users both nationally
and internationally and has led
significant roll-outs of some
of V-Arc’s most significant
corporate office fit-outs which
incorporate and focus on activity
based working environments.
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10. EPCS gives considerable thought to the design of the
modern commercial and corporate workplaces. We
apply Thought Leadership to every project and
collaborate closely with our clients to understand
and develop their continually-evolving aspirations
and emerging trends.
Commercial and Corporate Architecture and
Interior Design is about more than just providing an
environment in which people come to do work.
Instead, it is about creating a ‘Sense of place’
for companies and their employees that suits their
needs, defines both their professional and personal
values and that allows them seamlessly to
transition between both.
We seek to move beyond a simplistic transfer of
brand into design and building; instead we work
together with our clients to extract the essence
of their brand into spaces that are a functional,
engaging and effective expressions of their
corporate identity and values.
EPCS' internationally experienced Team believes
that good commercial and corporate design is
delivered by professionals that have an intrinsic
understanding of the cultural, environmental,
social and commercial needs of our clients and
end-users to deliver working environments that
motivate, stimulate and encourage people to
perform to their maximum potential.
Commercial and Corporate environments that are
intelligent and flexible workspaces can add real
value, the design of these environments require
a balanced and considered approach if they are
going to energise a business by promoting its
unique corporate identity, encouraging team
interaction and instilling a sense of pride in
the business.
EPC has worked with a wide range of corporate
clients, from global multinationals to smaller niche
organisations looking to further shape their
corporate design and business vision. We are
positively engaged with our clients, from concept to
procurement, in order to understand how they
function and anticipate the innovations required to
create relevant and enduring work environments.
EPCS’s approach to the design of commercial and
corporate spaces is a transformative processes; no
matter the size of a client’s organisation, certain
elements remain consistent across our projects;
achieving the best commercial use of space,
ensuring maximum flexibility, connectivity, comfort
and safety that engages with and enables the end-
users.
We recognise that as businesses’ and brands
become more sophisticated, companies are
increasingly choosing to treat their office
environments as a logical and seamless extension of
their brand and its values. Understanding and
reflecting this diversity, through architectural and
interior design is therefore essential for ensuring
that these spaces deliver a businesses’ aspirations.
We respond to the needs of clients, developers
and building users, creating cost-effective
solutions that make the spaces leasable, saleable
and ultimately attractive.
EPCS creates spaces that offer seamless transitions
between work and life for the end-user. We
establish environments that people feel excited
about going to in the mornings, knowing that they
are being supported in being productive, motivated
and profitable.
CommercialInteriorDesign
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12. EPCS Values
Empathy, Trust, Empowerment, Challenge, Team
and Improve. These are our core values, they are
part of the EPCS fibre. They are not just words to
us, they are the way we do business and how we
want people to do business with us.
Within the office
EPCS graduate programme is where up and
coming talents are given the opportunity to work
flexible hours during their degree. This provides
the undergraduate with experience in a real
working environment but in return EPCS has
access to skilled graduates when they complete
their degree.
Our mentoring programme also ensures skill
matched professionals are at hand to share their
knowledge and impart guidance to the younger
staff within the office.
Within the community
EPCS volunteers resources for a number of master
planning exercises for community groups and
schools. This Preliminary work is often vital for
funding applications for these groups.
Being blessed with the virtues and opportunities
afforded to us by this country, we feel it is
important to give back anyway we can.
Sustainability
EPCS are committed to environmental and social
values and are active members of various
sustainable councils.
While there is a lot of buzz around the subject of
sustainability, when well applied it not only makes
good business sense but actually produces
healthier environments for users.
EPCS makes it part of their responsibility
as architects and interior designers to instil
environmentally sustainable design principles and
policies to all projects we produce and play a role
in.
An open dialogue between the design team and
client to discuss sustainability and recycling
options, capital outlay and benefits (payback,
environmental impact, etc) is the most productive
way to consider sustainable strategies and what to
adopt in order to get the best outcome for
all concerned.
Projects that have actively incorporated
sustainability principals include:››››
› Gary Smorgan House
› Glen Eira Villas
› New Integrated Community Project - Bendigo
› 223 William Street building refurbishment and
fit out, seeking a 5 star green star accreditation ›
(Possible Pilot for government buildings) ›
L’Oreal Office, registered for 5 star green
star accreditation.
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13. Technology
EPCS invests heavily in technology, to ensure that
we have fast reliable systems to design and deliver
projects. Super-fast workstations, interconnected
offices, internal Intranet, the latest design software,
access to terrestrial 3D laser scanning / 3D printing
and HD video conferencing facilities provides the
best possible platform to design and deliver
effectively.
EPCS has implemented a BIM process for the
design and delivery of all of our projects. Building
information Modelling (BIM) is a new process of
designing and documenting buildings.
BIM allows EPCS to fully understand the project in
detail, in a co-ordinated approach with consultants
and project stakeholders. Using a BIM process, EPCS
creates a complete electronic prototype of the
building, in context with its surroundings.
This electronic model of the building allows EPCS
to accurately and quickly communicate ideas,
solutions and issues to all stakeholders.
By understanding all aspects of the project early,
potential costly variations that may not have been
understood until later in the project are resolved
before they become time consuming
and expensive.
Clients benefit from the process by having clear
accurate information to use to make decisions.
Plans and elevations are supported by three
dimensional information that can be easier to
understand than traditional 2D information.
Having a clear understanding enables clients to
make informed decisions in a timely manner,
which helps keep projects on track.
Project managers benefit from the process by
having access to information that quickly conveys
the project to other stakeholders, in a consolidated
and co-ordinated package, with the peace of mind
that the documentation is accurate and correct. The
Model can be used downstream by quantity
surveyors for cost estimates, and by the
construction team to add time based information to
enable on-site scheduling and co-ordination.
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14. ProjectExperience
TALDirect
As a leading company with a thriving
culture, TAL is a big business with an even
bigger personality.
Looking to unite the currently disjointed
company over contiguous floors, EPC
have developed a fun and flexible work
space to promote and enhance TAL’s
interoffice community.
The 425 staff will find themselves spread
across five connected floors in their new
Melbourne CBD locale. Drawing on themes
of Melbourne identity, events and icons, V
Arc has created a visual language to
complement the professional yet fun nature
of TAL.
Taking on the challenge of adapting to
the constraints of existing infrastructure
and a tight budget, the project is set for
completion in mid 2013.
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iSelect
The 4800sqm site, split across three levels,
marries contemporary design practices and
space planning with clear design drivers:
design an environment that is fun, quirky
and gives back to the staff, and create
an environment that is professional yet
entertaining – promoting social interaction
throughout the entire fit out.
With a rich culture, young and vibrant staff
demographic, there was a requirement for
lots of meeting rooms and collaboration
spaces but not much storage. Key objectives
included the increased interaction between
staff departments which lead to the
implementation of a central interconnecting
stair and slide to promote vertical
circulation.
The Front of House makes use of the
iSelect corporate colours, orange and
white, with stark white epoxy floors and
bold splashes of orange.
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MultiChannelNetwork
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34. ProjectExperience
MultinationalCorporation
Understanding the importance of
communication and knowledge sharing
within the workplace, EPCS developed a new
spatial language for our client that sees the
connection of teams and the amalgamation
of corporate divisions across Australia and
New Zealand.
Relocating to Sydney’s CBD at a 2000sqm
site, the primary drivers of the project were
to design a contact centre environment that
promotes collaboration, bringing people
together to operate as a whole and
establishing a world class bench mark.
By approaching the project holistically,
understanding how the client and their
workforce operate and how they measured
their happiness and engagement, EPCS was
able to interpret this with a level of
empathy and pragmatism that ensured the
ultimate success of the space.
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44. ProjectExperience
TreasuryWineEstates
Treasury Wine Estates is currently the
largest wine company in the world, owning
over a hundred wineries across Australia,
Europe and America.
Their recent de-merger from the Fosters
Group has inspired a fresh start for TWE,
with their head office in Australia
re-locating into a 6660m2 tenancy –
The Atrium in Southbank. Key drivers for the
design of this fit out were inspired by the
TWE ‘vinetrepenuer’ motto of ‘One foot in
the Boardroom, one foot in the vineyard’.
The design incorporates contemporary office
elements with reclaimed/rustic features that
make reference to the lifestyle on the
vineyards both past & present, with a
number of highly customised joinery units
designed for this fit out.
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50. L’Oreal’s Melbourne headquarters is
registered with GBCA and seeks a 5-star
Accreditation for office fit out.
Over 4200sqm, the office boasts a
serviced cafe, open plan layout with
internal offices and abundant meeting
spaces.
Coming from two separate suburban
sites, the new St Kilda Road address offers
L’Oreal a new gateway to easier
communication and abundant retail
options for the youthful staff.
Since completing the Fit out in 2009,
EPCS have continued our professional
relationship with L’Oreal completing their
Sydney corporate headquarters and
Melbourne Training Academy.
ProjectExperience
L’Oreal
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54. Standard & Poor’s had outgrown their
tenancy and were moving to 2 floors
within 120 Collins Street.
Their brief was for them to be challenged,
to adopt a fully open plan environment,
which for a financial and analytical
company proved difficult with privacy and
security requirements. The tenancy also
had to reflect Melbourne, and provide a
point of difference to their recently
completed Sydney office.
The space needed to align with the young
and vibrant staff and to break the
stereotype of finance companies being
boring.
ProjectExperience
Standard & Poor’s
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58. The vacant Old County Court at 223 William
Street required upgrading to meet
Government policy on minimal building
environmental standards.
The project entailed the replacement of the
existing façade and the entire building
systems and services to meet the new
requirements in building energy efficiency.
EPCS is the principle consultant, leading the
design of the building and integrated fit-
out refurbishment, which also sees the
existing courtrooms being redesigned to
new standards.
Completed in mid 2011, the project will
unify the court precinct at the William and
Lonsdale Street corners and make
a positive reinforcement on the State
Government’s initiative on
environmentally sustainable buildings.
ProjectExperience
WilliamCooperJustice Centre
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TowersWatson
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TelstraBespoke
MeetingFloor
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70. Our vision is built on the belief that
good design can only be delivered by
professionals with an intrinsic
understanding of the commercial,
cultural and societal needs
of our clients, users, and the broader
communities they are designing for
to bring them the value that they
seek.
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