FAQs

Yes. We can provide highest-and-best-use reviews, preliminary feasibilities and sensitivities, advice on purchase strategy and conditions, and early planning and built-form input. The aim is to help you avoid marginal or unworkable deals and put strong ones on a realistic footing from day one.

Yes. We coordinate the approvals strategy, manage the consultant team, oversee documentation, respond to RFIs and negotiate with council and authorities—always with an eye on preserving commercial outcomes and programme.

Yes. We are set up to step into projects experiencing delay, builder failure, default, mortgagee-in-possession or general under-performance. We stabilise the project, assess the technical and contractual position and put in place a realistic recovery plan.

We do. We provide professional oversight, cost and programme control, procurement advice and superintendent-style services so owner-builders can capture savings without compromising safety, quality or compliance.

Yes. It’s common for us to perform both roles. Where we do, we clearly separate our impartial contract-administration duties (superintendent) from our client-side advocacy role (project management), so everyone understands which “hat” we are wearing at any point in time.

Project management is about driving the overall outcome on your behalf—coordinating consultants, controlling cost and programme, managing approvals and protecting your commercial position.
Superintendent services are about administering the construction contract—assessing claims and variations, certifying payments, determining extensions of time and ensuring both parties meet their contractual obligations.

Development management sits at the strategic and commercial level: site selection, highest-and-best-use analysis, feasibility, funding and exit strategy, and aligning the brief with the market.
Project management focuses on delivering the defined development: managing design, approvals, procurement, construction and handover.

Every project is different, but a typical engagement follows:

1. Discovery – understanding your objectives, constraints and current position.

2. Strategy / health check – reviewing feasibility, programme, procurement and key risks.

3. Detailed scope – agreeing services, deliverables, timelines and fees.

4. Execution – day-to-day management and contract administration.

5. Close-out – handover, defects management and lessons learned

We put in place a practical control framework tailored to your project, typically including: a realistic, linked programme; a live cost plan and contingency strategy; defined change-control for scope and variations; clear quality benchmarks and inspections; and structured reporting so issues are surfaced early.

We provide regular reporting—typically monthly on active projects—covering programme status, cost position, key risks and opportunities, critical decisions required and site progress. Reporting can be structured to suit boards, investors and financiers.

We work within the WHS, building code and regulatory frameworks relevant to your project. Our role includes reviewing contractor systems, ensuring appropriate documentation and processes are in place, and monitoring implementation. We don’t replace the builder’s legal obligations, but we provide another layer of experienced oversight.

Yes. We hold appropriate professional indemnity and related insurances for our development management, project management and superintendent roles. Certificates of currency and limits can be provided as part of an engagement or tender process.

• Lump sums for clearly defined stages

• Monthly retainers linked to agreed time commitments

• Hourly rates for short, specialist or advisory engagements

On larger mandates, fees are staged against clear deliverables and milestones.

We don’t set a hard dollar threshold, but our services deliver the most value on complex, capital-intensive or risk-sensitive projects—multi-residential, commercial and mixed-use developments and technically complex high-end residential. For smaller projects we can quickly advise whether we’re the right fit or suggest a lighter-touch engagement.

On most projects, our fees are treated as professional and project costs within the overall development budget. Final treatment depends on your financier and advisors, but we are familiar with typical requirements and can structure our engagement and reporting to align with them.

How do we start working with you?
Send us a short summary of your project, location, current stage and objectives. We’ll organise an initial discussion to understand your needs and recommend the right next step—whether that’s a brief feasibility review, a scoping workshop or a full appointment.