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Office interiors · Hyderabad

Office Interior Design and Build
in Hyderabad

IBS designs and builds office interiors in Hyderabad, where its local teams deliver the work. The in-house design team covers interiors, electrical, HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), plumbing and fire fighting, and IBS’s own engineers and workmen build the floor under one contract. Where an architect has drawn the office, IBS builds that design. Telangana adds rules of its own: a fire law that binds tenants, power requisitioned from TGSPDCL, Telugu on the name board and separate paperwork for a floor in a special economic zone (SEZ).

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₹25 CroreLargest single order IBS has executed
11.7Million sq ft of Hyderabad offices leased in 2025 (JLL)
15 mCommercial building height above which a fire NOC is needed
Finished open-plan office with rows of workstations beside tall windows, a slatted ceiling, and a reception counter under a lit wall logo with lounge chairs in front

Who designs an office interior in Hyderabad, and who builds it?

One firm can do both under one contract, or your architect designs and a contractor builds. IBS works either way in Hyderabad through its local teams. Whichever route you take, three Telangana rules shape the job. The fire safety duty falls on the owner or the occupier, or both, and a rent-paying tenant is an occupier. Extra power is requisitioned from TGSPDCL, the city’s licensee. The name board carries Telugu above any other language.

Who is an occupier under Telangana’s fire law?

The occupier is the party the Telangana Fire Service Act, 1999 can hold to its fire safety duty, alone or together with the owner. The term includes any person who pays rent to the owner, or is liable to pay it. A company that leases an office floor is therefore an occupier of that floor.

What is a fire NOC?

A fire NOC is a no objection certificate issued for a building by the fire service. In Telangana the Director General of Fire Services, or an officer he authorises, issues it for a commercial building more than 15 metres high. It holds only for the occupancy class, the occupant load (the number of people) and the building particulars in the application.

Delivery

Who does the work on an IBS office project in Hyderabad?

IBS’s local teams in the city. IBS is a national contractor with a local presence and local teams in India’s major cities, Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities included.

In Hyderabad

  • IBS has a local presence in Hyderabad, and projects in the city are delivered by its local teams
  • The people on your floor are IBS’s own engineers and workmen, across civil work, MEP, fire fighting, HVAC, interiors, painting and furniture
  • On an office floor, civil work means partitions, floor screed and gypsum or grid false ceilings
  • MEP (mechanical, electrical and plumbing) means the DB panels (distribution boards), conduit and earthing, the ducting and diffusers, and the pantry and toilet plumbing

Design

  • IBS’s in-house design team covers every discipline: interiors, electrical, HVAC, plumbing and fire fighting
  • Where you have no architect, IBS designs the office and builds it under one contract, with design quoted as its own line
  • Materials are your choice. IBS prices options against your budget, such as joinery in plywood, MDF or HDHMR (a high-density, moisture-resistant board) with a laminate or veneer face
  • Shop drawings (the maker’s detailed drawings of each item) are approved before fabrication, and a mock-up is built where the contract asks for one

Price and programme

  • A site survey of the floor comes before the quotation
  • The quotation is a line-item BOQ (bill of quantities) priced against the drawings. IBS quotes no rate per square foot
  • The programme is stated in the quotation, and long-lead equipment has its lead time shown against it
  • Where a PMC (project management consultant) runs the project, progress is reported to it against the programme, with HSE (health, safety and environment) and quality plans

Handover

  • Test certificates, and as-built drawings corrected to show what was installed
  • A closed snag list, the list of defects put right before you accept the floor
  • Twelve months’ warranty on installation, with each manufacturer’s warranty passed through to you
  • The defect liability period your contract sets
Finished office with staff at long timber desks, a lounge area with sofas and plants, and a glass-walled meeting room in use behind

Fire safety

What does Telangana’s fire law ask of a tenant fitting out an office?

The Telangana Fire Service Act, 1999 applies in Hyderabad. Its duty reaches tenants as well as landlords, and its certificate is tied to the occupancy and the number of people the building was applied for.

Who carries the duty

  • Fire safety measures are to be provided by the owner or the occupier, or both, of a building or of part of one, and kept in good repair and efficient condition at all times
  • An occupier includes anyone who pays rent to the owner or is liable to pay it, so a tenant company is an occupier of the floor it leases
  • Your lease should say which of you maintains the sprinklers, smoke detectors and alarm devices inside the leased area

When a certificate is needed

  • A commercial building more than 15 metres high needs a no objection certificate, known as the fire NOC
  • The Director General of Fire Services, or an officer he authorises, issues it
  • The fire NOC is the building’s document. Ask your landlord for a copy before design starts

What the certificate covers

  • It holds only for the occupancy class, the occupant load (the number of people) and the building particulars stated in the application
  • A change of occupancy needs a fresh certificate
  • Ask the landlord in writing which occupancy and what occupant load the fire NOC was applied for. Compare your planned headcount with it before the seat count is fixed

What a new layout moves

  • Cabins and meeting rooms change the ceiling plan, so sprinkler heads and smoke detectors move with the partitions
  • Partitions and joinery leave clear access to the hose reel, the wet riser landing valve, manual call points and the exit routes
  • New devices connect to the building’s fire alarm panel, which brings the landlord’s facility team into the job
  • Any permission the change needs is yours or your landlord’s to obtain. IBS can prepare the application drawings and handle the liaison, as a separately charged service
Two workers in high-visibility vests laying dark carpet tiles beside glass partitions on a high office floor, city buildings through the windows

Power

Who supplies power to a Hyderabad office, and how is extra load applied for?

One licensee serves the city, and its terms of supply say who applies for more load.

The licensee

  • The Southern Power Distribution Company of Telangana Limited distributes power in Hyderabad. Its licence area includes both Hyderabad and Ranga Reddy
  • Its short form is now TGSPDCL. A regulator’s order dated 10 July 2026 records that the company replaced the abbreviation TSSPDCL
  • The company’s name did not change, so a bill or sanction letter marked TSSPDCL refers to the same licensee

The requisition

  • A request for a new connection or for additional load is a requisition, submitted in the licensee’s prescribed format
  • It is made by the owner or the occupier of the premises. In a leased tower, agree with the landlord which of you applies
  • A consumer who wants new or additional load for commercial use is to hold whatever licence, permission or no objection certificate the statute requires

What a fit-out adds

  • Cooling: a tenant VRF (variable refrigerant flow) system, or more AHUs and FCUs (air handling units and fan coil units) fed by the building’s chiller plant
  • Lighting designed to a lux level (brightness at the desk), a server room with its own cooling, and a pantry with ovens and dishwashers
  • Every new circuit runs from the floor’s DB panel through conduit to its own MCB (miniature circuit breaker), with earthing to match
  • The electrical design totals the connected load in kW. Compare it with the load already sanctioned for the floor before equipment is ordered
Two fit-out workers in hard hats and high-visibility vests fixing a full-height glass partition panel on a bare office floor with an open services ceiling

SEZ floors

Is your Hyderabad floor inside a special economic zone?

A special economic zone (SEZ) is an area notified under India’s SEZ law, where approved units work under separate customs and tax rules. Ask whether your floor is in one before the first purchase order, because materials reach it under their own clearance rule.

Where the zones are

  • The Government’s list shows 38 operational SEZs in Telangana up to 31 March 2026
  • It has IT and ITES (IT-enabled services) zones at Madhapur, Gachibowli, Nanakramguda, Raidurg and Kokapet
  • An address in one of those localities does not by itself put a floor in a zone. Your lease and the developer can confirm it, and whether your company is an approved unit there

What the rule says

  • India outside the zones is the Domestic Tariff Area
  • A supplier there who supplies goods or services to a unit clears them as in the case of a zero-rated supply, a category in GST law with its own documents
  • Fit-out materials come from outside the zone: gypsum board, glass, plywood, HVAC equipment and furniture
  • This page gives the principle and no tax advice. The copy of the SEZ Rules, 2006 we read is amended up to February 2020, and your finance team decides how your purchases are treated

Before material is ordered

  • Say at the site survey that the floor is inside a zone
  • Have the unit’s paperwork for inward goods arranged before the first delivery is booked
  • IBS shows the lead time of long-lead equipment against the programme. Use those dates to schedule the paperwork

Name board

Does an office name board in Hyderabad have to be in Telugu?

Yes, under Telangana’s shops and establishments rules. The rule is one sentence long, and it fixes the order of the languages.

What the rule says

  • The name board of every shop or establishment is to be in Telugu
  • Where other languages are used, their versions go below the Telugu version
  • The Labour Department’s checklist for registering a shop or establishment lists a photograph of the Telugu name board

What it means for the sign you order

  • Settle the Telugu spelling of your company name before artwork starts, and have a Telugu reader on your side approve it
  • Check the artwork proof against the rule before you approve it. Acrylic letters on an ACP (aluminium composite panel) tray are costly to remake once fixed
  • IBS’s print branding line makes reception logo walls, glass film, wall graphics, wayfinding and cabin name plates in the same programme as the interior

Monsoon

When is the monsoon in Hyderabad, and what does it change on site?

IMD (India Meteorological Department) revised its normal monsoon dates in 2020. The station table in its research report has no row for Hyderabad. Its press release does.

What IMD gives for the city

  • The station table prints four Telangana stations: Hanamkonda, Sirkonda, Sirpur and Suryapet. Hyderabad is not among them
  • The press release lists Hyderabad. Normal onset is 8 June (1961 to 2019 records) and normal withdrawal is 14 October (1971 to 2019 records)
  • From the first date to the second is 128 days, a little over four months
  • IMD’s own link to that release now fails, so the source below is an archived copy from December 2022

What that changes

  • Work indoors carries on through it: partitions, ceilings, conduit, ducting, joinery and painting
  • The exposed items sit on the terrace and the facade: outdoor HVAC units, refrigerant pipe runs, roof penetrations and external cable routes
  • Sheet materials take up moisture. Plywood, MDF and gypsum board need dry storage on the floor before they are fixed
  • IBS states the programme in its quotation. Read the outdoor activities in it against these two dates. They are long-run normals, and any one year can differ

Architect-led

What changes when an architect has already designed your Hyderabad office?

The design stays with the architect. IBS prices it and builds it.

What stays with the architect

  • The design itself. IBS builds to the architect’s GFC drawings (good for construction) and does not compete for the design work
  • The answer to every query. IBS sends queries to the architect in writing and tracks each one until it is answered
  • Any substitution. A saving is put forward only as a priced alternate, for the architect to accept or refuse

What IBS brings to that design

  • A site survey, then a line-item BOQ priced against the architect’s drawings
  • Shop drawings before fabrication, and mock-ups where the contract asks for them
  • Its own engineers and workmen for every trade on the floor, through its local teams in Hyderabad

Market data

What do JLL and Cushman & Wakefield publish about Hyderabad offices?

Two numbers, one for demand and one for cost. Both are market data. IBS publishes no rate, and neither figure is its price.

Leasing in 2025 (JLL)

  • Hyderabad recorded 11.7 million sq ft of gross office leasing in 2025, against 10.7 million in 2024. JLL prints the rise as 8.9%
  • The fourth quarter of 2025 took 4.2 million sq ft against 2.9 million in the third, a rise JLL prints as 41.0%
  • Add the two quarters and the second half of 2025 comes to about 7.1 million sq ft, roughly 60% of the year

Fit-out cost in 2026 (Cushman & Wakefield)

  • About ₹5,847 per sq ft for a collaborative hybrid office fit-out in Hyderabad
  • The guide gives that same figure to five of its eight cities. It is the lower end of the guide’s ₹5,847 to ₹6,567 range
  • For scale only, as arithmetic on the market figure: 15,000 sq ft at ₹5,847 is about ₹8.77 Crore

Why your own figure will differ

  • A published average describes no particular floor. Yours has its own ceiling height, existing services and landlord conditions
  • The MEP scope moves it: a server room, extra cooling or a pantry adds equipment, ducting and electrical work
  • Finishes move it again: carpet tile or vitrified tile on the floor, a gypsum ceiling or an exposed one
  • IBS prices from a site survey, as a line-item BOQ, with design shown as its own line

IBS

What can you check about IBS before you appoint it in Hyderabad?

The company

  • A national contractor that executes projects across India, with a local presence in Hyderabad
  • Head office in Goregaon West, Mumbai, and its own furniture and joinery factory near Vasai East
  • All registrations required under Indian law
  • BCAS-cleared to work across the entire airport premises, including airside. BCAS is the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security

The record

  • Largest single order executed to date: ₹25 Crore
  • Approved vendor at Adani Airports, HDFC ERGO, Reliance Retail, Godrej Finance, EPSON, Duravit, HSBC, Tata CLiQ, Canon, Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail and HDFC Life
  • National enterprise clients include Adani Airports, Reliance Retail, Tata CLiQ, Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail, GroupM, Belgian Waffle, EPSON, Canon, Planet Retail, Society Tea and Duravit
  • Office interior work delivered for GroupM in Mumbai

Fitting out an office in Hyderabad?

Start with the address, the carpet area, your headcount and the date you must move in. Say whether the floor is inside an SEZ, and attach the building’s fire NOC if the landlord has shared it. IBS carries out a site survey and prices a line-item BOQ, with design as its own line where you need it.

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Which Hyderabad rule does each part of an office fit-out meet?

Seven parts of a fit-out, the rule or body each one meets and who has to act. Use it as a checklist before design starts.

Which Hyderabad rule does each part of an office fit-out meet?
Rule or body it meetsWho actsHave ready before work starts
Sprinklers and smoke detectors moved for new roomsThe building’s fire NOC, under the Telangana Fire Service Act, 1999The owner or the occupier, or bothA copy of the fire NOC and the landlord’s agreement to the layout
Headcount on the floorThe occupant load the fire NOC was applied forYou, with the landlordYour planned seat count, set against that load
A change from another use to office useThe occupancy class in the fire NOCYou, with the landlordA fresh certificate, if the occupancy changes
New HVAC, server room or pantry loadTGSPDCL’s terms of supplyThe owner or the occupier, who makes the requisitionThe connected load in kW and the load already sanctioned
Name board at the entranceTelangana’s shops and establishments rulesYou, as the establishmentArtwork with Telugu above any other language, checked at proof
Deliveries to a floor inside an SEZThe SEZ Rules, 2006The unit and its suppliersThe unit’s paperwork for inward goods
Outdoor HVAC units and roof workIMD’s normal monsoon dates, 8 June to 14 OctoberYour contractor, in the programmeA programme that shows when the outdoor work falls

Market Context

What the published data says

Where to go next

Questions Buyers Ask

Frequently asked questions

Who are the best office interior designers in Hyderabad?
“Best” depends on what you measure, so measure what you can check. Ask each firm whether its designers and site workmen are its own staff, how large its biggest single order was, and whose approved-vendor lists it is on. IBS designs in-house and builds with its own workmen, through local teams in Hyderabad. Its largest single order is ₹25 Crore.
Does IBS have a local team in Hyderabad?
Yes. IBS has a local presence in Hyderabad, and projects in the city are delivered by its local teams. It is a national contractor with local teams in India’s major cities, Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities among them. IBS’s own engineers and workmen carry out the civil work, MEP, fire fighting and HVAC. The head office is in Goregaon West, Mumbai.
Will IBS design our Hyderabad office, or build our architect’s design?
Either. With no architect, IBS’s in-house design team designs the office and IBS builds it under one contract, with design quoted as its own line. Where an architect has drawn it, IBS builds to the architect’s GFC drawings (good for construction) and does not compete for the design. Shop drawings come before fabrication, and queries go to the architect in writing.
How much does an office interior cost per sq ft in Hyderabad?
Cushman & Wakefield’s 2026 guide puts a collaborative hybrid office fit-out in Hyderabad at about ₹5,847 per sq ft. Five of the guide’s eight cities carry that figure, the lower end of its ₹5,847 to ₹6,567 range. It is a market average and it is not IBS’s price. IBS quotes a line-item BOQ after a site survey, with no rate per square foot.
Is the landlord or the tenant responsible for fire safety in a leased Hyderabad office?
Either, or both. The Telangana Fire Service Act, 1999 places fire safety measures on the owner or the occupier, or both, and counts anyone who pays rent to the owner as an occupier. A tenant company can therefore carry that duty for its own floor. Your lease should set out who maintains the sprinklers and smoke detectors in the leased area.
Our tower is taller than 15 metres. What does that mean for the fit-out?
A commercial building more than 15 metres high needs a fire NOC (no objection certificate) from the Director General of Fire Services or an officer he authorises. The certificate belongs to the building. Ask your landlord for a copy before design starts, because a layout that moves sprinklers or smoke detectors should be checked against it first.
Can a higher headcount or a change of use affect the building’s fire NOC?
It can. Telangana’s fee rules say the certificate holds only for the occupancy class, the occupant load (the number of people) and the building particulars in the application, and that a change of occupancy needs a fresh certificate. Before the seat count is fixed, ask the landlord what the fire NOC was applied for and compare your planned headcount with it.
Who supplies electricity to offices in Hyderabad, and how do we get more load?
The Southern Power Distribution Company of Telangana Limited, abbreviated TGSPDCL. Its licence area covers Hyderabad and Ranga Reddy. A requisition for additional load goes in on the prescribed format, made by the owner or the occupier of the premises. The electrical design gives your connected load in kW. Compare it with the floor’s sanctioned load before any HVAC equipment is ordered.
Is TSSPDCL the same company as TGSPDCL?
Yes. An order of Telangana’s electricity regulator dated 10 July 2026 records that the Southern Power Distribution Company of Telangana Limited replaced its abbreviation TSSPDCL with TGSPDCL. The company’s name did not change. A bill, a sanction letter or a landlord’s document marked TSSPDCL refers to the same licensee, which serves both Hyderabad and Ranga Reddy.
Does our office name board in Hyderabad have to be in Telugu?
Yes. Telangana’s shops and establishments rules say the name board of every shop or establishment is in Telugu, and that versions in other languages go below the Telugu version. The Labour Department’s registration checklist also lists a photograph of the Telugu name board. Check the artwork proof against the rule before you approve the board for fabrication.
Our office is in an SEZ in Gachibowli. Does that change the fit-out?
It changes how materials reach the floor. Under the SEZ Rules, 2006, a supplier outside the zone who supplies goods to a unit clears them as in the case of a zero-rated supply, a category in GST law with its own documents. Say at the site survey that the floor is in a zone, and have the unit’s paperwork arranged before the first delivery.
Can an office fit-out run through the Hyderabad monsoon?
Yes, for work indoors. IMD’s normal dates for Hyderabad are 8 June for the onset and 14 October for the withdrawal, 128 days apart. Outdoor HVAC units, roof penetrations and external pipework are exposed to rain, and plywood, MDF and gypsum board need dry storage. IBS states the programme in its quotation, so check where the outdoor work falls.
How long does an office fit-out take in Hyderabad?
No single figure holds. The time depends on the floor area, the state the floor is handed over in, the lead time of glazing, HVAC equipment and custom furniture, and how long the landlord takes to approve drawings. For a floor inside an SEZ, add the time to arrange paperwork for inward goods. IBS states the programme in its quotation.
Who obtains the permits and NOCs for a Hyderabad office fit-out?
You do, or your landlord for the building’s own approvals. Licences, permits and NOCs are the client’s to obtain, including anything the electricity licensee asks a commercial consumer to hold before more load is given. IBS can prepare the application drawings and handle the liaison as a separately charged service. It provides test certificates and as-built drawings at handover.
Does IBS take office projects in Madhapur, Gachibowli and Nanakramguda?
Yes. IBS’s local teams deliver projects in Hyderabad. The address changes two things: the tower’s own fit-out rules, and whether the floor sits inside a special economic zone, since the Government’s list shows IT and ITES zones at Madhapur, Gachibowli, Nanakramguda, Raidurg and Kokapet. The fire law and the licensee stay the same. The licence area covers both Hyderabad and Ranga Reddy.
How do we get a quote for an office interior in Hyderabad?
Send the address, the carpet area, your headcount and your move-in date through the enquiry form, WhatsApp or email. Add the floor plan or your architect’s drawings, say whether the floor is inside an SEZ, and attach the building’s fire NOC if you have it. IBS carries out a site survey first, then prices a line-item BOQ, with design as its own line.

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