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Atlanta, Georgia

Ten glass-fronted offices. Ten therapy rooms waiting to happen.

A design-build contractor and its client, a provider of autism therapy services, were weighing a vacant office suite in a Buckhead office building on Peachtree Road. A therapy clinic needs small, private, calm rooms, controlled entry and modest power, not big plant. The question was how much of the existing office fit-out could carry over. One visit, with every room measured and every system traced back to its source, answered it.

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Glass-fronted rooms

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Atlanta, Georgia - commercial site surveyed by Alturascope

High-rise office suite · Atlanta, Georgia · Surveyed August 2026

What We Found

What the space had to offer, and what the format needed.

01

The office layout was already most of a clinic.

Ten perimeter offices, typically about 9'-6" to 10'-6" wide by 12' deep with 8'-5" ceilings, sit around a continuous hallway, each behind a glass front. Several fronts already carry frosted privacy film. For therapy rooms, the work is privacy, acoustics, finishes and lighting. The walls can stay where they are.

What we recommended

Keep the cellular layout and the glass fronts, and budget for privacy film and acoustic treatment rather than new partitions.

Carpeted office hallway lined with glass-fronted rooms under a lay-in ceiling
The perimeter hallway, with rooms off both sides.
Office interior with a glass partition carrying a frosted privacy band
Glass fronts with frosted film already in place.

02

Daylight in almost every room. The lighting was the thing to change.

Most rooms have full-width curtain-wall windows, which suits a calm therapy setting. The ceiling fixtures are three-lamp fluorescent troffers, and we read the lamps themselves to confirm it rather than guess. Fluorescent flicker is a known sensory trigger for the people this clinic serves, so lighting moved from an energy line item to a design priority.

What we recommended

An LED retrofit with flicker-free, dimmable drivers and one consistent color temperature through the suite.

Empty perimeter office with a two-panel curtain-wall window looking onto trees
A typical perimeter room, with a treetop outlook.

03

Building plant does the heavy lifting, and the suite's circuits were already named.

Heating and cooling come from the floor's base-building air handler, a 2012 modular unit with hot and chilled water coils, so the suite has no rooftop equipment of its own to maintain. In the shared floor panels we found the suite's circuits labeled by name, with spare positions alongside. Clinic loads are ordinary office grade, so the existing power suits therapy rooms as they are.

What we recommended

A landlord letter confirming the suite's share of power and cooling and the after-hours arrangements, and an early list of any dedicated circuits the clinic needs.

Modular indoor air handling unit with insulated hot and chilled water piping, gauges and valve actuators
The floor's air handler, read from its nameplate.

Pre-lease survey of an office suite for a therapy clinic in Atlanta, Georgia

This was a pre-lease site survey and existing-conditions survey of a vacant office suite on Peachtree Road in Buckhead, Atlanta, carried out for a design-build contractor planning an autism therapy clinic. In one visit we measured every room, documented the lighting, power, HVAC distribution, sprinklers, fire alarm devices and above-ceiling services, and traced the base-building electrical, air handling and fire protection plant that serves the floor. The result was a room-by-room record of what the office fit-out already gives a clinic and what the conversion needs to add.

The previous occupant's controlled-entry hardware, including a fingerprint reader, electric strike and door contact, is still in place at the suite entrance, a useful starting point for a clinic that needs a secure front door. The break room's dedicated appliance circuits can also be reused for a new staff room.

Delivered

The next day, the client had a narrative survey report with room-by-room dimensions, a nameplate-level equipment register and a short list of landlord confirmations to request.

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Anonymised by design. The street is named and nothing else: no occupier, suite, client or lease details. Photographs are cropped to keep tenants’ branding out of frame.

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