How to Simulate Multiple Stacking Plans in a Few Clicks with Stackfit

In relocation projects, site consolidation, or workplace transformation, one question systematically arises: how to distribute teams coherently in a building? And, above all, what is the best possible organization among several conceivable options?

To answer this, project managers, space planners, and AMOs build stacking plans, which represent the distribution of entities or uses by floor. But testing several successive hypotheses — one scenario per department, another per activity type, a third per space usage — can quickly become long, tedious, and error-prone if using traditional tools like Excel or PowerPoint.

With Stackfit, you can simulate multiple stacking plans in just a few clicks, without duplicating files, without recalculating at each change, and without losing track of your decisions. Here's how.

Why simulating multiple stacking plans is essential

A stacking plan is never an end in itself. It must allow testing, comparing, adjusting, to guide good trade-offs. There's rarely only one way to organize teams in a building.

You'll often need to explore several possible configurations to:

Respect the building's technical constraints (for example, reserving a floor accessible to visitors, or avoiding dispersing a team across several levels).

Optimize proximity between departments that work together daily.

Anticipate headcount evolution in the medium term (growth or reorganization).

Distribute surfaces according to HR, business, or strategic logics.

Validate trade-offs with internal stakeholders (HR, IT, general management…).

But with traditional tools, each hypothesis requires starting from scratch: duplicating PowerPoint slides, manually adapting colors, recalculating surfaces in Excel, exporting a new version… This process can easily take several hours for each scenario, not counting the multiple back-and-forths with stakeholders.

Simulating multiple stacking plans with Stackfit: how it works

Stackfit allows you to build, test, and compare multiple stacking plans in a unique, visual, and interactive environment. Here's how it works in practice.

An intuitive interface designed for real estate projects

As soon as you open Stackfit, you visualize your building as stacked columns representing floors. Each entity, team, or function is symbolized by a block that you can drag and drop onto desired floors. As you place entities, information updates automatically: occupied surface, headcount, occupancy rate, remaining m²…

You thus have an instant view of your plan's coherence, without any manual calculation.

Create multiple scenarios in a few clicks

Stackfit allows you to duplicate an existing scenario with a simple click. You can then modify entity assignments on floors to test a new hypothesis. All indicators update in real-time.

In less than 10 minutes, you can create and configure 3 or 4 different plans, each corresponding to a specific logic (current organization, future organization, business logic, flex logic…).

Each scenario is saved in the platform, ready to be presented or reworked, without having to manually manage multiple files.

Analyze and compare hypotheses

Once several scenarios are in place, Stackfit allows you to compare their performance using summary tables. For each scenario, you visualize:

Team distribution by floor,

Overall and per-level occupancy rate,

Potential over-occupations or reserve margins,

Density (in m² per person),

Vacant or underutilized surfaces.

These comparisons allow project managers and stakeholders to make objective and argued decisions, based on reliable data and clear visualization.

Practical case: 3 scenarios tested in 30 minutes

Let's take the example of a company wanting to consolidate 400 employees from three different departments in a 5-floor building, while implementing flex office operation.

The project team wants to test three stacking plans:

Organization by department (each floor = one department).

Distribution by usage (focus spaces, collaborative, projects…).

Hybrid configuration (with a shared floor and grouped support functions).

With Stackfit:

Headcount is automatically imported from an HR Excel file.

Each scenario is created in less than 10 minutes thanks to drag-and-drop.

Teams can visualize and comment on options during the workshop.

The final scenario is validated at the end of the meeting.

Result: validation of a stacking plan in a single session, versus several weeks usually.

A useful feature for all project actors

Simulating multiple stacking plans with Stackfit facilitates the work of all participants:

The real estate project manager gains precious time in preparing and presenting options.

The AMO or space planner can visually test different distributions while considering site constraints.

HR can verify that teams are correctly represented, according to their headcount and specific needs.

Business units can react to proposed scenarios, suggest adjustments, and get involved in the final decision.

What you gain with Stackfit

Considerable time savings: go from several hours of work per scenario to a few minutes.

Fewer errors: Stackfit automatically updates surface, density, and distribution calculations.

Better readability: each scenario is clear, visual, exportable to PDF for presentation.

Better collaboration: everyone works on the same platform, in real-time.

Agile management: you can go back, adjust, compare, decide… without ever starting from scratch.

In summary

Simulating multiple stacking plans is an essential step for succeeding in a real estate project. But this process, often complex with traditional tools, becomes fast, fluid, and collaborative with Stackfit.

In a few clicks, you can:

Build multiple hypotheses,

Adapt them according to constraints,

Compare them objectively,

And validate them with all stakeholders.

Stackfit transforms the stacking plan into a true strategic decision lever.