What we build in Melbourne.

Intertek Testing Australia engaged JCGAU to run the feasibility for a Melbourne laboratory, and they have consented to being named here and approached as a referee. A feasibility is how a client finds out whether a builder understands their problem before committing to a build.

Behind that sit 15+ years of the director’s commercial and industrial delivery. Every claim on this site is attributed to the entity that delivered it, so a buyer who checks finds exactly what we said they would find.

Client

Intertek Testing Australia

Scope

Laboratory feasibility

Area

More than 800 m²

Status

Delivered

Named with consent

Yes

Building permit, not building rules consent

Victoria runs planning permits through the responsible authority and building permits through a registered building surveyor, with an occupancy permit at the end. The names and the sequence differ from South Australia, and a programme written for one state does not transfer to the other.

The relevant building surveyor

Victorian building permits are issued by a relevant building surveyor, and the appointment governs the inspection sequence and the occupancy permit at the end. Under a design and construct contract we can arrange the RBS appointment inside our scope. On any other contract it sits with you, and we work to whoever you appoint.

Registered practitioners

Building work in Victoria is carried out by registered practitioners in the relevant categories. We will tell you exactly what registrations sit behind a project rather than leaving you to assume.

Local Jobs First

Where a project attracts Victorian state investment, local content and apprenticeship commitments can become contract deliverables with reporting attached. We plan them from award with a named owner rather than assembling evidence at completion.

City access

CBD and inner-suburban towers run dock bookings, lift allocations and restricted noisy work hours. On a tower fitout the access rules shape the programme more than the scope does, so we read them before we price.

Heritage overlays

Large parts of inner Melbourne sit under heritage overlays that change what can be altered and how long approval takes. It is a first-week question, not a detail-design one.

Industrial land

The industrial work sits west and south-east. Different councils, different stormwater requirements, and a different electricity distributor conversation from the one you have in the CBD.

Victorian projects are run by people who work in Victoria and know the councils, the surveyors, the distributors and the subcontract market here. That is not a courtesy to the client, it is how a programme written in one state survives contact with another.

What does not change across a border is who is answerable. The same director carries every project, so the person who prices your job is the person who runs it and the person you call when something needs a decision.