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Grade A office

Also searched as: Grade A, Grade B office, office grade, Grade A building

A Grade A office is a building at the top of its market: in a prime district with metro and road links, on large, regular floors with generous ceilings, with fast lifts, zoned cooling, a green certificate and professional management. It is a market label, not an official grade, with no fixed test and no examiner.

Hotels are graded by a rigid star system with set rules. Offices are not. Grade B is good, older and cheaper: a secondary district, smaller or awkward floors, slower lifts, fewer amenities. A grade is not for life: a tower built to a high specification holds Grade A for longer, and one built to the minimum slips to Grade B sooner. A refurbishment can restore the grade, but location, ceiling height, floor plate and structure cannot be refurbished in. The BCO, the British Council for Offices, puts a Grade A ceiling at about 2.6 to 2.75 m in the UK.

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