Designed with you. Delivered stage by stage, with care.
Residential
New builds, renovations, and extensions across Victoria and Tasmania. We handle council, coordinate consultants, and keep budgets honest.
Community
Participatory design for community facilities, social housing, and public-interest projects. The people who use the building shape the building.
Specialist
Feasibility studies, heritage assessments, pre-purchase reviews, bushfire design, expert witness work, and accessibility audits.
Accredited by the Living Future Institute of Australia.
Regenerative design is the foundation of our practice.
Regenerative
The building gives back more than it takes: energy, water, health, habitat.
Adapted from the Living Building Challenge framing by Living Future Oceania.
Quoted stage by stage.
Choose what you need. Nothing proceeds without your approval.
- Council's permission to build what you are proposing. It looks at where the building sits, how tall it is, and how it affects your neighbours and the street, judged against the local planning scheme. If your land carries an overlay for heritage, bushfire or flood, that authority gets a say before council decides. You cannot start until it comes through, and its conditions go into the drawings.
- A second approval, from someone else. A registered building surveyor, not the council, checks the drawings against the National Construction Code. Planning asked whether you could build it. This asks whether it is built properly: structure, fire, energy, access, drainage. No work can start on site without it, and it sets the inspections the surveyor makes along the way.
- The building surveyor's sign-off that the finished house is safe to live in. It comes at the end of the build, once the inspections are done and the final certificates for energy, plumbing, glazing, waterproofing and termites are in. This is what lets you move in, and it is the document your lender and insurer will ask for.
Plan your project
A few details will shape your indicative fee and timeline.
What kind of project?
What kind of project?
about 1 year 1 month
Quoted stage by stage.
Each stage has its own scope and its own fee, so you can engage us for exactly what you need. Every project gets three independent cost checks: at concept, before approval, and before tender.
The first meeting and the fee proposal are free. Nothing happens without your sign-off.
| Construction cost | Typical full-service fee | What's included at this level |
|---|---|---|
| $300k | $25k – $45k | Renovation or small extension scope. Single point of contact, council handled. |
| $500k | $40k – $75k | Mid-size renovation or compact new home. Full documentation and tender. |
| $1M | $80k – $120k | New home or substantial multi-stage works. Consultants coordinated end to end. |
| $2M+ | Quoted on scope | Multi-residential, community, or specialist work. Tailored scope and fee proposal. |