Designed with you. Delivered stage by stage, with care.
Whether it's a new home, a renovation, a community space, or one-off specialist work, you'll work directly with the architect designing your project.
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.
Tell us a little. Get an indicative fee and timeline.
The planner takes about ninety seconds. We use what you share to draft a fee proposal stage by stage, so by the time we meet the conversation is about your project rather than about us.
What kind of project?
Four quick questions for an indicative timeline and fee.
Five stages.
No surprises.
One canonical sequence across every project: residential, community, or specialist. Each stage has a defined scope, a set of deliverables, and its own fee.
Engage us for the full run from concept through approval to build, or only for the stages you need. Specialist work usually uses the first three; full residential service runs the whole sequence.
- 01 Listen
Site analysis, brief development, and the planning research that shapes what's actually possible. All of this happens before design starts, so the brief is real by the time we draw.
- Client Architect Agreement
- Site and planning report
- Fee proposal, stage by stage
- 02 Design
Layouts, sections, and visualisations tested against your brief and budget. You see costs at concept, then again before approval. Sustainability is embedded from this phase onward.
- Concept options
- Independent cost check
- Material palette
- 03 Approve
Detailed documentation and the council approval process, including pre-application meetings and VCAT responses if they're needed. Drawings, reports, and conversations all run through us.
- Planning submission
- Building permit
- Energy and structural certificates
- 04 Build
Builder tender and contract negotiation, then regular site visits. We review progress claims, assess variations, catch defects early, and translate technical issues into plain language.
- Tender and contract
- Site reviews
- Progress and variations review
- 05 Settle
We walk through the completed space with you, manage the defects list, and stay available through the 12-month liability period and well beyond. Regenerative outcomes are tracked post-occupancy.
- Practical completion
- Defects and liability period
- Post-occupancy review
The five-stage sequence is the same across every project. Only the language changes: a renovation client hears Build; a community project says Deliver; specialist work uses Support. The table below maps each area to the stages it actually uses.
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 | $10k – $25k | Renovation or small extension scope. Single point of contact, council handled. |
| $500k | $30k – $60k | 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. |
Indicative ranges, concept to completion. Actual fees vary with scope and complexity.
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