For architects & designers
The proposition
No qualifications buried in the fine print, no allowances that quietly become variations. If something in the set won't build the way it's drawn, you hear it during pricing — not at frame stage, in front of your client.
Where we come in
Four ways to bring us onto a project. The earlier we're involved, the more buildability and cost input you get while changes are still cheap to make.
Bar length is how much of the project we carry. Hover a model to trace it.
We carry documentation and delivery risk, with your studio's design intent held as the brief throughout.
Constructability, program and cost input while the set is still developing — the point at which changes are still inexpensive.
Open-book pricing when your client wants a builder at the table before the documentation is finished.
A straight price against your documentation, with buildability notes attached and nothing quietly qualified away.
From the set
Slab, frame, envelope — built in the order the set specifies, with design intent held on site rather than value-managed away. You hear about a buildability problem during pricing, not at frame stage.
On site
We won't tell you our projects run smoothly. On work this size problems are inevitable — what separates builders is whether they surface early and in writing, or arrive as surprises. Five things we commit to, because your name is on this as much as ours.
Substitutions proposed in writing with reasons and consequences — never decided on site.
If a detail won't build, you hear it during pricing, not at frame stage.
Questions come to the architect. We don't take design decisions to your client.
No allowances that quietly become variations. A cheap tender recovered later costs you the client relationship, not us.
We don't compete for the relationship or solicit the next project behind you.
We don't pay for referrals · it would compromise your obligations to your client
The paperwork
The questions a practice manager asks before a builder goes on a tender list.
three projects at a time — so we're tendering against builders our own size
One lead builder start to finish · named site supervisor
The same trades since day one · joiner, stonemason, tiler named
public liability · workers compensation · HBCF
WHS management plan per site
Licence 297590c · HIA member 1220336 · twelve years · second-generation builder
Start
Share the drawings and we'll come back with a straight price and buildability notes against them.
Bring us in during design development for constructability, program and cost input while changes are cheap.