Abstract:
Retail shop is a key component of shopping center in terms of attracting customer attention to come and pay for services. It is important for tenants to decorate the shop to contributing their selling and services. And at the end of leasing contract, they have to remove the decoration to repatriate the sale area to the shopping center. The purpose of this research is for study about preparing lease area, process of decoration and demolition including role and responsibility of management team from 4 shopping centers in Bangkok. The study has collected from general shop and restaurant by a survey and interview to achieve the guidelines of decoration and demolition process management for other shopping center. From the study, the empty leasing areas are consist of 3 architectural works include floor, wall and ceiling and 5 engineering systems include electrical, fire safety, sanitary and air conditional system which having the same in every shop but they will be more using volume in restaurant. Also, there is a gas system only for restaurant area. For the process, the decoration process is consist of 5 key activities include the work before tenants get into the area, drawing approval, controlling during decoration, testing before shop opening and the recognizance approval. The demolition process is consist of 4 key activities include the work before demolition, controlling during demolition, testing before area repatriation and recognizance approval. These two process are performed by the same personnels which consist of 6 departments include sale, customer relationship, buliding management, architecture, engineering and accounting that manage and control all activities during the process. The controlling is consist of safety and security control, cleaning control, schedule control and investigation according to standard of shopping center at the end of both processes. Therefore, the roles and responsibilitys of building management team are preparing leasing area according to policy, setting up works, setting up the standard of controlling and investigation, assigning works to staff then proceed as planned and standard that has been set. This research has proposed the guideline for decoration and demolition process management that are productive for shopping center manager and other type of building that have leasing area. They can use this model as a guideline and can understand how to manage the process as a sequence of steps to Allocate facilities and resources for prevention and security during the execution of the decoration and demolition of retail shop space appropriately.