What we are right for, and what we are not.

Most construction websites describe everything a company could conceivably do. This one describes what we are actually right for, so you can tell before you write the invitation.

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South Australia
SA
Commercial and industrial building work under our own registration, and residential work within the scope that registration carries.
Victoria
VIC
Commercial builder and domestic builder registrations held in the company’s name.
New South Wales
NSW
Commercial and industrial building work. We do not take on New South Wales residential building work.
Project size
Up to $20m
Commercial and industrial projects

What we are built for.

  1. Technically demanding facilities

    Laboratories and testing facilities, dangerous goods storage, and buildings where the services, the compliance pathway and the interfaces are the difficult part rather than the form.

  2. Industrial and warehouse

    Services-heavy industrial work, refurbishment and upgrade in operating facilities.

  3. Commercial fitout, refurbishment and defit

    Office and workplace, including staged work and make-good against lease obligations.

  4. Design and construct, and early involvement

    We are most useful before the design is fixed. If you already have a fully coordinated set and want a price, we can do that too, but it is not where we add the most.

Where we work.

Our South Australian and Victorian registrations carry a two-storey scope for building work undertaken under those registrations. Fitout, refurbishment and defit within an existing building, and commercial work in New South Wales, are assessed against the licensing pathway that applies to that particular project. We confirm that pathway in writing before we bid, rather than after.

What we are not right for.

  • New South Wales residential building work. We do not hold the licensing for it and do not take it on.
  • Projects with no client-side decision-maker. Our process asks the client to make specific decisions at specific points. Where nobody is empowered to make them, programmes slip and neither of us enjoys it.

Price is scored. It is not the only thing scored.

Every trade package is assessed against allocated criteria: price, which carries real weight, and quality of the offer, relevant experience, demonstrated safety performance, and the capacity to resource the package. That is why we tender to the open market and level every bid to a common scope before anything is compared. We ask to be evaluated the same way. Where a client scores tenders on quality, experience, safety and delivery capability alongside price, we are competitive and we are comfortable.

How we work with design teams.

We would rather be the contractor an architect recommends again than the one they tolerate. Value management happens inside the design stage with the design team present, no substitution is procured without written confirmation from the design team, and consultants are paid, on time, for the work they are engaged to do.

Project size.

We deliver commercial and industrial projects up to $20 million. The method is the same at every point in that range: trade packages to the open market, every bid levelled to a common scope, and a preconstruction phase that is funded rather than absorbed.

Send the site address and whatever drawings exist.

Incomplete is fine. The address alone tells us the zone, the authority, the building and usually the constraints. Acknowledged the same business day, and a scoping call or a considered answer within two.