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Office interiors · Pune

Office Interior Design and Build
in Pune

IBS designs and builds office interiors in Pune, and its local teams in the city deliver them. Its in-house design team draws the interior and its services, and its own engineers and workmen build them: civil work, MEP (mechanical, electrical and plumbing), HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), fire fighting, painting and furniture. Where an architect has drawn the office, IBS builds that design. In Pune one question comes first. At least four authorities share the office districts, and the fire office and the partition rule both follow from which one your building sits under.

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4Fire and planning authorities this page sets out for Pune
₹25 CroreLargest single order IBS has executed
91.5Million sq ft of Grade A offices in Pune (Cushman & Wakefield, Q3 2026)
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Which office interior designers in Pune also build the floor, and whose rules does it answer to?

IBS designs office interiors in Pune in-house, and its local teams in the city build them, or build your architect’s design. Whose rules apply depends on the land. At least four bodies run fire offices here under one state Act: the Pune Municipal Corporation, Pimpri Chinchwad, the state’s industrial development corporation (MIDC) at Hinjawadi and the metropolitan region authority (PMRDA) around it. The partition rule changes with them.

What is a Special Planning Authority?

A Special Planning Authority is a body that Maharashtra’s town planning Act of 1966 puts in charge of planning a notified area. The Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) is one for the industrial areas notified to it, and the state’s fire Act counts it as a planning authority.

What is a Final Fire Safety Approval?

A Final Fire Safety Approval is one of three approvals in Maharashtra’s fire Act, beside the Provisional approval and the Renewal. PMRDA’s website calls its version the Final Fire NOC (no objection certificate). It names the office that issued it, so ask your landlord for a copy.

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Which fire office does an office building in Pune answer to?

Maharashtra’s fire Act sends the owner to the Chief Fire Officer of the local or planning authority concerned, or to the state’s Director where there is none. Around Pune’s office districts we read four such bodies. Sources spell one place Hinjawadi, Hinjewadi and Hinjavadi.

Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC)

  • PMC has its own Fire Brigade, headed by a Chief Fire Officer
  • Its ward list names Kharadi, Viman Nagar, Yerawada, Baner, Hadapsar and Shivajinagar

Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC)

  • PCMC runs a separate fire department, with sub-stations listed at Bhosari, Pradhikaran, Rahatani, Talwade and Chikhli
  • Its page, which we read in Marathi, gives payment details for a fire NOC (no objection certificate)
  • We could not place Balewadi, Magarpatta, Wakad, Tathawade or Pimple Saudagar under either corporation, so we assign them to no one

MIDC, inside the Rajiv Gandhi Infotech Park

  • MIDC’s Fire Department handles the fire NOC at building plan approval and the Final Fire Approval before occupancy
  • Its station list of September 2021 prints two stations for the park at Hinjawadi, in Phase I and Phase III

PMRDA, around the park

  • The Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority (PMRDA) says it is the Special Planning Authority for 697 villages. Its Mulshi taluka list prints Hinjavadi, Man and Marunji
  • It has fire stations at Nanded City, Marunji and Wagholi, and grants the Final Fire NOC in its area
  • On our reading, which is no quoted rule, an MIDC plot in the park answers to MIDC’s fire office, and land in those villages outside MIDC’s notified area answers to PMRDA
  • We saw no plot-level boundary. The building’s Final Fire Approval names the office that issued it
Finished open-plan office with an exposed services ceiling, glass-fronted meeting rooms, a slatted logo wall with planters, a long work table and a grey lounge sofa

Fire law

What does Maharashtra’s fire Act ask of the landlord and the tenant of a Pune office?

The Act of 2006 covers the whole state, and we read it as on 7 July 2025.

Approvals, measures and alterations

  • The owner obtains the Provisional and Final Fire Safety Approvals and each Renewal. The occupier does so only “where the owner is not traceable”
  • Providing the measures the approval recommends falls on the “owner or occupier”, and a tenant who pays rent is an occupier
  • On an office floor those measures usually include sprinkler heads, smoke detectors, call points, the fire alarm panel, a hose reel and the hydrant landing valve on the wet riser
  • No person may “tamper with, alter, remove or cause any injury or damage to” installed fire equipment. As we read that, moving a sprinkler head or a smoke detector is agreed with the owner before the ceiling is opened

January, July and towers over 30 metres

  • Twice a year, “in the months of January and July”, the owner or occupier furnishes a certificate that the measures are “in good repair and efficient condition”
  • A building over 30 metres in business use carries extra duties: a fire officer or fire supervisor, and a fire and life safety audit “once in every two years”, owed by the owner or, where the owner is not traceable, the occupier
Two workers in high-visibility vests laying dark carpet tiles beside glass partitions on a high office floor, city buildings through the windows

Partitions

Do office partitions and cabins need development permission in Pune?

One state Act sets the principle. Which regulation applies it depends, again, on whose land the building stands on.

The Act and the unified regulations

  • Maharashtra’s town planning Act of 1966 asks no permission for works that “affect only the interior of the building”, except in a heritage building or precinct
  • The state’s unified regulations, read as updated to 30 January 2025, need no permission for “internal lightweight partitions / cabins in the commercial building / establishment”, given a “certificate of structural stability from the Licensed Structural Engineer”
  • They cover every planning authority and regional plan area except those they name. MIDC is named

On MIDC land and in PMRDA’s villages

  • MIDC’s own regulations of 5 July 2023 carry the same exemption, on the same certificate, for an “industrial or commercial building”
  • PMRDA says it applies its own regulations of 2018, which we did not read

What the exemption leaves out

  • The unified regulations still count “cutting into or removal of any wall, partition, column, beam, joist, floor, roof or other support” as alteration. As we read it, a slab core for HVAC or refrigerant pipework is that kind of work
  • Lighter work is the bulk of an office interior: gypsum partitions and ceilings, floor screed, vitrified tile, and joinery in plywood, MDF or HDHMR (a dense, moisture-resistant board) faced in laminate or veneer
  • Every licence, permit, NOC and permission is yours to obtain, the landlord’s fit-out approval and hot-work permit included. IBS can prepare application drawings and handle liaison as a separately charged service
Finished office corridor beside a glass-walled meeting room with a frosted privacy band, grey wall panels and a lit logo at the far end

Power

Who supplies electricity to a Pune office, and how fast must extra load be released?

MSEDCL (Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited, or Mahavitaran) is the licensee the documents point to. An amendment of 5 July 2024 cut the time limits in the state’s supply code.

The licensee, and a proposed second one

  • The regulator’s tariff order of 28 March 2025 lists a “Pune zone” among MSEDCL’s zones. No document we read places Pune inside its licence area in so many words, so check the name on the bill
  • On 23 June 2025 the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) gave notice that it “proposes to grant the licence” to Torrent Power for “Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC), and Other areas”
  • An e-hearing was fixed for 22 July 2025. We did not find the outcome and do not predict it

Applying

  • On the consumer’s application the licensee “shall revise (increase or decrease)” the contract demand or sanctioned load, and may recover the cost of any works at the approved Schedule of Charges
  • IBS’s design team calculates the connected load: VRF (variable refrigerant flow) units or chiller-fed AHUs and FCUs (air handling and fan coil units), lighting to a lux level (brightness), and each DB panel (distribution board) with its conduit, earthing, and MCBs and MCCBs (circuit breakers)

The time limits

  • The licensee is to “release new connections or modify an existing connection” within set limits, counted from an application “complete in all respects” and “subject to the statutory provisions and permissions”
  • On those terms, supply from the existing network with no augmentation has 3 days in a Metropolitan Area, 7 days in other municipal areas and 15 days in a rural area
  • On the same terms the limit is 90 days where mains must be augmented or extended, or a new sub-station commissioned

Two points left open

  • The amendment does not say whether added load on a running connection counts as a request to “modify an existing connection”
  • A Metropolitan Area is one the Governor notifies. We did not open a notification for Pune, so we cannot say whether 3 days or 7 applies
  • Ask MSEDCL in writing, and set its answer on the programme beside the lead time of the VRF units and AHUs

SEZ floors

Is your floor in a Pune IT park 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 rules. Since December 2023 a complete floor of an IT zone can be marked as non-processing area, outside the regime for zone units.

Pune’s rows in the Government’s list

  • The list of operational SEZs up to 31 March 2026 has 36 Maharashtra rows. By our count, 17 name Pune district or a Pune locality
  • IT rows include EON Kharadi Infrastructure, WIPRO at Hinjawadi, Embassy Pune TechZone in Phase II of the Rajiv Gandhi Infotech Park and MIDC’s own zone in Phase III

Whole floors, processing or not

  • A rule of 6 December 2023 lets the Board of Approval mark part of an IT zone’s built-up area as non-processing area, which “shall consist of complete floor”
  • Businesses there “shall not avail any rights or facilities available to Special Economic Zone Units”
  • For a unit in the processing area, goods from outside the zone are cleared as a zero-rated supply and the Authorized Officer examines them at the gate. We read that rule in a copy amended up to February 2020
  • So ask the landlord in writing which kind of floor yours is before gypsum board, plywood, laminate, vitrified tile, ducting or HVAC equipment is ordered. This is principle and no tax advice

Delivery

Among office interior designers in Pune, what does IBS draw and who builds it?

One company does both. IBS is a national contractor that executes projects across India, with local teams in the major cities and in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities.

Design

  • An in-house team covers every discipline: interiors, MEP (electrical, HVAC and plumbing) and fire fighting
  • With no architect, IBS designs the office and builds it under one contract, with design as a separate line in the quotation
  • Where an architect leads, IBS builds from the architect’s GFC drawings (good for construction) and does not compete for the design. Queries go to the architect in writing, and a saving is offered only as a priced alternate

On your floor in Pune

  • IBS has a local presence in Pune, and its local teams deliver the projects it takes in the city
  • Its own engineers and workmen carry out the civil work, MEP, HVAC, fire fighting (sprinklers, smoke detectors and the fire alarm panel), painting and furniture
  • Shop drawings come before fabrication, and a mock-up where the contract asks. Progress goes to your project management consultant with HSE (health, safety and environment) and quality plans

Price and handover

  • A site survey first, then a line-item BOQ (bill of quantities) against the GFC drawings. IBS quotes no rate per square foot
  • Materials are your decision, from options priced against your budget: plywood or HDHMR board, laminate or veneer, carpet tile or vitrified tile
  • The programme shows the lead time of long-lead equipment. Handover brings test certificates, as-built drawings, a closed snag list, each manufacturer’s warranty and the defect liability period your contract sets

A record you can check

  • 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
  • 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
  • Largest single order executed: ₹25 Crore
  • BCAS (Bureau of Civil Aviation Security) clearance to work across the entire airport premises, airside included, and all registrations required under Indian law

Calendar and signage

What do the monsoon, Ganeshotsav and the Marathi name-board rule change for a Pune fit-out?

Two of these belong on the programme. The third belongs on the signage proof.

Monsoon

  • IMD (the India Meteorological Department) gives Pune a normal onset of 10 June and a normal withdrawal of 9 October in its 2020 research report
  • Its press release of the same year prints 11 October. We use the report’s table
  • Set the outdoor work against those dates: HVAC outdoor units, refrigerant pipe runs, external ducting and roof penetrations

Ganeshotsav 2026

  • A police press note of 9 September 2026 banned heavy vehicles around the clock from 12 to 26 September on 12 named roads, Laxmi Road, Karve Road and Fergusson College Road among them. That is our reading of a Marathi scan, and the order has lapsed
  • We found no standing hourly restriction on goods vehicles at source, so this page states none. Read the year’s order before booking September deliveries

Name board

  • Maharashtra’s shops and establishments Act, read as on 31 December 2025, puts the name board of every establishment in Marathi, in Devanagari script, whatever the head count
  • Another language may be added. The Marathi comes first, in letters no smaller
  • A contravention of the Act carries a penalty of up to ₹1 Lakh, with the total capped at ₹2,000 per worker employed
  • IBS’s print branding line makes the board and the wayfinding signs. Check the proof before the acrylic letters or the ACP (aluminium composite panel) tray are made

Market data

Where is office space being taken in Pune, and what does a fit-out cost?

Published market data from Cushman & Wakefield’s Pune office report and its fit-out cost guide. IBS publishes no rate per square foot, and prices each floor from a site survey and a BOQ.

Stock, vacancy and leasing (Cushman & Wakefield, Q3 2026)

  • Grade A stock of 91.5 million sq ft in five submarkets, at 13.88% vacancy overall
  • The submarket it calls SBD East, with Kharadi, Viman Nagar and Hadapsar, holds 50.9 million sq ft at 15.7%. SBD West, with Baner and Aundh, holds 11.6 million at 3.9%, the lowest of the five
  • PBD West holds 18.9 million at 10.3%. Its key puts Hinjewadi beside Pimpri, Chinchwad and Bhosari. A market report can group them. The fire offices above do not
  • Gross leasing in the quarter was 1.99 million sq ft, about 71% of it in SBD East

Fit-out cost (Cushman & Wakefield, March 2026)

  • About ₹5,847 per sq ft for a collaborative hybrid workplace in Pune
  • The guide gives Ahmedabad, Chennai, Hyderabad and Kolkata the same figure

Taking an office floor in Pune or Pimpri Chinchwad?

Four details start it: the locality and tower, the carpet area, the headcount and the move-in date. Add the building’s Final Fire Approval and the latest electricity bill if you have them. IBS then carries out a site survey and prices a line-item BOQ.

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What should commercial interior designers in Pune confirm at each address?

For the two corporations we take the unified regulations to apply, as the partitions section explains.

What should commercial interior designers in Pune confirm at each address?
Fire officePartition ruleStill to confirm
Kharadi, Viman Nagar, Yerawada, Baner, Hadapsar, ShivajinagarPMC’s Fire BrigadeUnified regulations: no permission for lightweight partitions, with a structural stability certificateThat the building is in the ward PMC’s list names
Pimpri ChinchwadPCMC’s fire departmentUnified regulations, on the same readingWakad, Tathawade and Pimple Saudagar, which we could not place
An MIDC plot in the Rajiv Gandhi Infotech ParkMIDC’s Fire Department, on our readingMIDC’s regulations of 5 July 2023, same exemptionThe plot’s status, from the Final Fire Approval
Village land at Hinjavadi, Man or Marunji outside MIDC’s areaPMRDA, on our readingPMRDA’s regulations of 2018, which we did not readWhere MIDC’s area ends

Market Context

What the published data says

Where to go next

Office Interior Design and Build in other cities: Mumbai, Bengaluru, Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai, Gurgaon, Noida, Ahmedabad and Kolkata. Each page sets out that city’s fire, power and landlord rules.

Questions Buyers Ask

Frequently asked questions

Who are the best office interior designers in Pune?
We found no neutral ranking, so compare what you can check: whether the firm that draws the office also builds it, whether the MEP and HVAC workmen are its own, and how large its biggest order was. IBS designs in-house and builds with its own workmen, through local teams in Pune. Its largest single order is ₹25 Crore.
Does IBS have a team in Pune?
Yes. IBS has a local presence in Pune, and its local teams deliver the projects it takes in the city. It is a national contractor with local teams in India’s major cities, Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities included. Its own engineers and workmen carry out the MEP, HVAC and fire fighting.
Does IBS work as a turnkey interior contractor in Pune, or only as a designer?
Where you have no architect, IBS designs the office and builds it under one contract, so it is your office interior contractor in Pune as well as your designer. Where an architect leads, IBS builds from the GFC drawings. Its own workmen carry out the MEP and HVAC, and the price is a line-item BOQ after a site survey.
How should a corporate team compare commercial interior designers in Pune for a multi-city programme?
Ask each firm whose staff will be on every site and how each site is priced. IBS is a national contractor with local teams in India’s major cities, Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities included. Its own workmen build each floor, and every site gets its own site survey and line-item BOQ.
Is IBS an approved vendor for large companies?
Yes. IBS is an 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. Its largest single order executed was worth ₹25 Crore, and it holds BCAS (Bureau of Civil Aviation Security) clearance to work across the entire airport premises, airside included.
Which fire office approves an office building in Pune?
It depends on whose area the building is in. The Pune Municipal Corporation has its own Fire Brigade, and Pimpri Chinchwad a separate fire department. As we read it, MIDC’s Fire Department covers MIDC plots in the Rajiv Gandhi Infotech Park, and PMRDA grants the Final Fire NOC around it. The Final Fire Approval names the office.
Our office is in Hinjawadi. Is the fire authority MIDC or PMRDA?
Either, depending on the plot. On our reading, which is no quoted rule, a building on an MIDC plot in the Rajiv Gandhi Infotech Park answers to MIDC’s fire office, and land in Hinjavadi, Man or Marunji village outside MIDC’s notified area answers to PMRDA. The building’s Final Fire Approval names the issuing office.
Is the landlord or the tenant responsible for fire approvals in a leased Pune office?
The approvals are the owner’s. Maharashtra’s fire Act has the occupier obtain them only where the owner is not traceable. Providing the measures falls on the owner or the occupier, and a rent-paying tenant is an occupier. Have the lease say who maintains the sprinkler heads, smoke detectors and call points on your floor.
What is the January and July fire certificate in Maharashtra?
It is a certificate the owner or occupier furnishes twice a year, in January and July, that the building’s fire prevention and life safety measures are kept in good repair and efficient condition. Ask your landlord for the latest one before the sprinkler layout is redrawn.
Do we need permission to put up partitions and cabins in a Pune office?
For lightweight ones the state’s unified regulations say no, given a structural stability certificate from a Licensed Structural Engineer, in the regulation’s words. MIDC’s regulations of 2023 say the same for its land, and PMRDA applies regulations of 2018 that we did not read. A gypsum partition is covered. A slab core for HVAC pipework is not, as we read it.
Who supplies electricity to offices in Pune?
MSEDCL, also called Mahavitaran, on the documents we read. The regulator’s tariff order of 28 March 2025 lists a Pune zone among its zones. On 23 June 2025 the regulator gave notice that it proposes a second distribution licence, to Torrent Power, for an area that includes Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad. We did not find the outcome.
How long does MSEDCL have to release extra load for a Pune office?
A 2024 amendment sets limits for a complete application, subject to statutory provisions and permissions. From the existing network without augmentation they are 3 days in a Metropolitan Area, 7 in other municipal areas and 15 in a rural area. Where mains or a sub-station are needed, the limit is 90 days. Whether Pune is a notified Metropolitan Area, and whether added load counts, are both open. Ask MSEDCL before the HVAC order.
Our floor is in an IT park SEZ in Kharadi or Hinjawadi. What changes for the fit-out?
Find out which kind of floor it is. Since December 2023 a complete floor of an IT zone can be marked as non-processing area, where a business has none of a zone unit’s rights or facilities. For a unit in the processing area, goods are examined at the zone gate. Ask the landlord in writing before the BOQ is priced.
Does our office name board in Pune have to be in Marathi?
Yes. Maharashtra’s shops and establishments Act puts the name board of every establishment in Marathi, in Devanagari script. Another language may be added, but the Marathi comes first and its letters are no smaller. The penalty runs up to ₹1 Lakh. Check the proof before the acrylic letters are made.
How much does an interior designer charge in Pune?
We found no published scale of designers’ fees for Pune. The market figure we can cite is for the whole fit-out, about ₹5,847 per sq ft for a collaborative hybrid workplace (Cushman & Wakefield, March 2026). IBS publishes no rate. Design is a separate line in its quotation, beside a line-item BOQ priced after a site survey.
How do we get a quote for an office interior in Pune?
Send the locality and tower, the carpet area, your headcount and your move-in date through the enquiry form, WhatsApp or email. Add the building’s Final Fire Approval and the latest electricity bill if you have them. IBS carries out a site survey, then prices a line-item BOQ with each lead time stated.

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