02 · Services
Four disciplines, done properly.
Understanding, Planning, Engagement, Delivery — the order in which a project earns the right to hand over.
Client Aspirations + (Situational Awareness x Experience) = Understanding
We adopt a holistic approach to understanding how a site can yield to meet Client aspirations whilst meeting all statutory, strategic, heritage, environmental and stakeholder opportunities and controls. It's about having the hard fought experience, recognising the existing conditions and having a deep appreciation of Client aspirations. Apply this with Long Cycle Thinking, establishing where the asset or outcome needs to be positioned in the long term. This is our version of time travel, porting our thinking to the future to obtain the benefit of virtual hindsight.
- Statutory Planning Feasibilities
- Environmental, Civil and Construction Feasibilities
- Opinions of Cost
- Funding and Partnership Opportunities
- Executive-Board-Chamber Briefings
- You bring a challenge, we provide a solution
Statutory Knowledge + Commercial Planning = Success Path
We approach each project with a strict planning discipline, this is a conflation of "Planning" in the Local Gov sense and the commercial strategic space, where the very important pillars of; who, what, when, where and how much, are thought deeply to provide Clients with a clear structure and pathway through our given brief.
- Charting of all Referral Authorities and opinions of constraints to achieving a Planning Permit
- Charting layers of gateways which permit conditions may present
- Charting of potential development facilitation pathways to avoid statutory planning and third party review rights
- Establishing a Development Team, and Programme of Consultant works
- Constructing an EOI campaign to seek contractor tenders from ECI to Works programmes
- Planning Stakeholder and Counterparty Engagement
People + (Process x (Rigour + Efficacy)) = Permits
We identify who is who, what levers they pull and what motivates and constrains them. Every stakeholder and counterparty has a paradigm toward the outcomes they need to achieve, the risk surfaces they mitigate, the documentation they require and the process they follow. Engagement is about smashing glass barriers to success through understanding the people, and providing the rigour and efficacy to the stakeholders and counterparties enabling them to do their work with the least bottlenecks. This is not about yielding, this is about understanding. Every person has their agenda, every department has their policy. Without understanding many fail or become consumed blaming the bureaucracy rather than predicting and embracing it.
We understand and engage with:
- Governments their Departments, Agencies and advisors
- Members of Parliament, Ministers and Senior Advisors
- Not for Profits, their mandates and Boards
- Commercial requirements of Funders, Valuers and Quantity Surveyors
- All Consultants required to fully document Planning and Construction artefacts through all stages of permits
- Modular Construction Industry
- Community consultation processes
- Minority interest groups, objectors and neighbours
- Marketing Agencies
- Sales and Leasing Agencies
- Public Health Sector
- NFP Private Health Sector
- Referral Authorities
- Transaction Managers
(Leadership + Governance) x (Rigour + Accountability) = Deep Cycle Delivery
This is the Project Management glue that brings all parties together to deliver the brief. Leadership creates the chain of command, Governance provides the framework, Rigour provides the quality assurance and Accountability provides the measurables and recourse. This simple formula can be applied to any sized brief even if it's just you asking for Executive or Board guidance on a matter, right through to the most complicated multi jurisdictional, multi department governed matter. Delivery is Deep Cycle, it is property development's version of quantum mechanics, the fine grain forensic detail that builds quality, compliance and trust in your brand.
We have experience in managing the delivery of:
- Commercial, Planning and Environmental Legal outcomes
- Planning Permits, Heritage Permits, Building Permits
- Easement Abolishment, Build over easement permits and agreements
- Developer Agreements with Authorities
- s173 Agreement preparation and negotiations
- Complex Statutory and PPV Planning and Heritage outcomes
- VCAT reviews
- Complex Land Titles, Crown Grants-Governor in Council outcomes
- Planning Amendments
- Specialised Land, Development, and Capitalised Valuations for acquisition, financial reporting or first mortgage purposes
- Civil Infrastructure design, certification and contractor tender and appointment
- Major Demolition works
- Modular Construction design and documentation
- Traditional Building design and documentation
- Adaptive re-use assessments
- Owners Corporation Asset end of life reviews
- Airspace development assessments
- Tender and engagement of building contractors
- All environmental reports from Geotechnical, PSI, PRSA, to Audit
- Asbestos Hygienists and Certification
- Gas and Ground Water Testing