Budget Rent A Car's new offices and reservation center project was a consolidation and relocation of the car company's regional offices from a high-rise hotel building in the center of Waikiki to a twenty thousand square-foot recycled industrial building in Kakaako, the light industrial section of Honolulu. Budget's goals were to provide an efficient and comfortable space for their employees within a reasonable distance to their major service centers, the Honolulu International Airport and Waikiki.

The large shell of the selected industrial building provided several amenities: 1) the single-floor space (versus a multi-floor space in a high-rise) allowed for enhanced inter-departmental interaction; 2) the high bay space easily allowed for the reservation center's new computer facility; and 3) the stand-alone building provided a Spartan-like facility, which could better promote the company's image and namesake. Budget Hawaii also wished to convey the local affiliate's unique place in the tourism market, which was expressed with a consistent Hawaiian image through the use of tropical-inspired art and upholstery, pastel faux finishes, and lava-like slate flooring creating.

The project also included emergency and uninterrupted power supply systems, as well as a discrete air conditioning system to maintain critical reservation records in the computer facility.

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