Transit and Civic Millwork Detailing A concourse never closes.

Public duty cycle.

Surfaces, edges, hardware and fixings face continuous use by people who did not buy the building and will not treat it gently. Detailing for that is a different exercise from detailing for an office.

Phased installation around live operation.

Work happens in short windows, in occupied buildings, with access routes and noise constraints set by the operator rather than the contractor.

Public procurement documentation.

Civic and transit projects tender on a defined basis with strict comparability requirements, and the bid documentation has to fit that route.

Life-safety and performance obligations.

Public buildings carry requirements that appear in the specification and change substrate, assembly and finish selection. The drawing has to reflect what the specification imposes.

Commercial-grade detailing in a public environment.

An edge or hardware selection appropriate to an office, installed where thousands of people pass daily.

Items that cannot be installed in the available window.

Access, sections and sequence not resolved, in a building where the window cannot be extended.

Serviceability ignored.

Public millwork gets damaged and has to be repaired in place. A detail that cannot be serviced without dismantling becomes a replacement.

Specification obligations read as description.

Performance requirements treated as background, then found at submittal review on a project where review is unusually rigorous.

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