Commercial Design Support

JDS Designs supports UK architectural practices across commercial project work, providing the CAD drafting, planning drawings, and building regulations documentation that commercial projects depend on at each stage. Commercial work carries its own drawing conventions and regulatory considerations — from accessibility and fire strategy coordination to more complex multi-storey and mixed-use layouts — and drawing sets typically need to be produced to a higher level of technical coordination than residential work.

We work across the commercial project types that make up a typical UK practice's commercial workload: office fit-outs and refurbishments, retail units, restaurant and hospitality fit-outs, change of use projects, and mixed-use developments combining commercial and residential elements. Each project moves through existing drawings, proposed design drawings, planning submission, and building regulations, and we provide drafting support at whichever stage your practice needs it.

This is built for UK architectural practices handling commercial, retail, hospitality, and mixed-use projects that need reliable drawing production without carrying that capacity in-house. It suits practices managing commercial fit-outs on tight leasing or tenant deadlines, firms handling change of use applications where planning and Building Regulations considerations run in parallel, and studios coordinating larger commercial projects that benefit from consistent BIM output across the project.