Renovation & refurbishment
Villa, apartment, office and retail renovation under one contract — developer NOC, authority permit, MEP, joinery from our own Al Quoz workshop and the site works. Or a single trade, done properly: painting, flooring and tiling, glass or gypsum partitions.
Almost every renovation here needs someone else’s permission before the first tile comes off: the developer’s NOC, the building management, Dubai Municipality or Trakhees, Civil Defence for anything commercial, DEWA if the load or the wet areas move. Most firms quote the works and leave the permissions to you. That is where renovations lose their first six weeks.
We are a registered contractor with all six major Dubai developers and submit to DM, Trakhees and the free-zone authorities every month. The permit route is part of our scope. We identify it at survey, prepare the drawings in the format that authority actually wants, and put joinery into production in our own workshop while the approval runs — so the wait is not dead time.
What we renovate
Each service below has its own page with the approvals, scope and process specific to it.
Full or partial villa refurbishment across Emaar, Nakheel and DAMAC communities, NOC and permit included.
Tower apartments with the building NOC, service lift and working-hour logistics managed for you.
Occupied or vacant office refurbishment, phased around your team, with landlord and Civil Defence approvals.
Store refresh and re-fit under mall fit-out guidelines, worked overnight so trading continues.
Opening up layouts, moving walls and wet areas, with the structural and permit checks that come with it.
Handover-condition upgrades for new owners and investors, done before the property is occupied or let.
New layouts and cabinetry from our own workshop, worktops templated on site, services coordinated.
Waterproofing, falls, sanitaryware and vanities, with the plumbing alterations most bathrooms need.
Interior and exterior painting with the preparation, primers and low-VOC systems that make it last.
Porcelain, marble, timber and SPC with screed, waterproofing and falls done before the first tile goes down.
Frameless and framed glass partitions, doors and manifestation for offices, clinics and homes.
Drywall partitions, bulkheads and feature ceilings, acoustic or fire-rated where the use needs it.
Approvals
It depends on the property, the community and the scope. The four layers below stack, and missing one is why most renovations in Dubai stall.
How we handle approvalsTenants need the landlord’s written consent before any submission. In managed towers and office buildings the owners association or facilities manager issues its own NOC, sets working hours, assigns the service lift and may ask for a refundable deposit against damage to common areas. We arrange all of it before mobilising.
Emaar communities want drawings in Dubai Municipality format. Nakheel communities want Trakhees format and a Trakhees-registered contractor; DM registration is not accepted there. Submitting the wrong set is the most common reason an NOC comes back. We hold registration with all six major developers and prepare each submission for the authority that community actually uses.
Structural, facade, MEP and wet-area changes need a building permit: DM on the mainland, Trakhees in Nakheel and PCFC areas such as Al Furjan, Palm Jumeirah and JVC, and the free-zone authority in TECOM, DMCC, JAFZA and DSO. A paint-and-floor refurbishment with no layout change usually needs only the NOC — we tell you which at survey.
Any commercial unit, and any change to sprinklers, detection or emergency lighting, goes through Dubai Civil Defence. New distribution boards, load increases and relocated kitchens or bathrooms need DEWA. We programme these early because they are the approvals most often left until they block handover.
Recent renovations
Villas in Al Furjan and Sports City, a Downtown kitchen, an Al Quoz office and a JVC store.
Scope & programme
We price line by line in a BOQ after a site visit rather than quoting a rate blind, and issue a dated programme before work starts. These are the decisions that move both.
Paint, flooring, lighting and joinery with the layout untouched is a refurbishment, and usually needs only the developer or building NOC. Once walls or wet areas move it becomes a renovation with a permit route attached.
Relocating a kitchen or bathroom is the single biggest step up in both cost and programme: new drainage, waterproofing, DEWA sign-off and a DM or Trakhees permit all come with it.
Removing a load-bearing wall or altering a facade brings a structural engineer, a full authority permit and, in many communities, a developer design review. Some communities prohibit facade changes outright.
Kitchens, bathrooms and joinery usually account for more than half of a residential renovation. In offices it is MEP, partitions and ceilings. Paint is the smallest line and the most visible.
Working around a family or a trading business means phasing, dust control and out-of-hours work. It is slower and costs more than a vacant property, and we say so at quotation rather than as a variation later.
The approval route your community requires and long-lead imported materials. We run approvals in parallel where the authority allows and start joinery production in our workshop during the wait.
Tell us the property, the community and roughly what you want to change. We will visit, measure, tell you which approvals apply, and come back with a BOQ you can actually compare against other quotations.
Common questions
Approvals, scope, timing and living or trading through the works. If yours is not here, call +971 50 448 3095.
Almost always, at some level. Most communities require a developer NOC before anything starts; managed towers and office buildings issue their own NOC on top. Structural, facade, MEP and wet-area changes then need a Dubai Municipality permit on the mainland, Trakhees in Nakheel and PCFC areas, or the free-zone authority where applicable. A refurbishment with no layout change usually stops at the NOC stage. We confirm the route at survey and handle every submission as part of our scope.
Refurbishment keeps the layout and replaces finishes: paint, flooring, lighting, joinery, sanitaryware. Renovation changes the plan — walls moved, rooms combined, kitchens or bathrooms relocated — and brings a permit route with it. The distinction matters because it decides which approvals apply, how long the programme runs and what the budget looks like.
Yes, with the landlord’s written consent, which the developer and the building management will ask to see before issuing an NOC. Most landlords agree to non-structural improvements and some share the cost. We can prepare a scope document for the landlord’s approval before anything is submitted to the authority.
Yes. We are a registered contractor with Emaar, Nakheel, Meraas, Dubai Holding, Nshama and DAMAC, and submit to Dubai Municipality, Trakhees and the free-zone authorities routinely. You do not need to appoint a second firm to carry the approvals.
It depends on scope and on the approval route your community requires far more than on floor area. A refurbishment with no layout change is quickest. A full renovation with structural change takes considerably longer, and the NOC and permit add time at the front of the programme. We issue a dated programme before work starts and begin joinery production in our workshop during the approval window so the wait is productive.
For single-room or single-trade work, usually yes. For a full renovation we would advise against it: strip-out, MEP first fix and screeds make a home genuinely unliveable and an office unworkable. Where clients do stay, we phase by floor, wing or zone, seal the active area and work out of hours where the building allows. Retail refits are usually done overnight behind hoarding so the store keeps trading.
Yes. Painting, flooring and tiling, glass partitions and gypsum partitions are each offered as a standalone package with the same site management and finishing standard as a full project. Each has its own page above explaining what is included.
Yes. A renovation can start from a conversation on site or from a full concept, 3D visualisation and material schedule prepared by our design team. Either way the drawings, joinery shop drawings, approvals and site works sit with one accountable team. If you already have a designer we will build to their drawings and coordinate with them.
Yes. We deliver across the UAE, including Abu Dhabi and Sharjah, with the approval route adjusted for each: Abu Dhabi Municipality and the master developer in Abu Dhabi, Sharjah Municipality in Sharjah.
