A new building is a different undertaking to a fitout: planning approval, structure, facade, base services and the fitout, under one programme.
A ground-up healthcare development adds a planning approval, a structural and civil scope, a building envelope and a base-building services installation on top of everything a fitout involves. The approvals run longer, the consultant team is larger, and the programme is measured in quarters rather than weeks.
New Builds stands as its own service because clients ask for it. We set it out here as capability, because that is what it currently is.
We would rather tell you at the first meeting what our register does and does not contain than have you find out at handover.
Six things that decide whether it lands — every one settled before a wall goes up.
Assessing the site against the planning controls, the development yield and the clinical brief before anything is committed.
Development application, the consultant reports it requires, and the authority response process — the longest single item on a new-build programme.
Footings, slab, frame and the civil works, engineered for the clinical loads the building will carry — imaging equipment in particular.
Facade, roof, glazing and weatherproofing, with the energy efficiency provisions the Code requires.
Incoming power, hydraulics, fire and mechanical sized for the full clinical use rather than a nominal commercial tenancy.
The clinical fitout delivered into the building we built, then certification and handover.
Three rooms from the register, photographed on completion.
General guidance on scope. Every site and planning context differs; this is not a substitute for a feasibility study.
Named, because “fully compliant” on its own tells you nothing.
Our register holds 38 completed healthcare projects and 18,253 m² across three states — and every one of them is a fitout or a refurbishment. It does not contain a ground-up building, and we will not imply that it does. What we bring is the construction capability and compliance discipline behind those 38 builds.
We do not publish a square-metre rate, because the rate would be wrong for your project.
The controls applying to the site determine yield, height, parking and therefore feasibility, long before construction cost matters.
A longer approval period is a holding cost on the land and the finance, and it is frequently larger than people expect.
Two scopes a fitout does not have at all, and together a substantial share of a new-build budget.
Incoming supply, substation if required, fire services and mechanical plant sized for full clinical use.
Everything a fitout involves, delivered into the completed shell.
Send us the tenancy and the scope. We will come back with a room schedule, a compliance read and a realistic cost range — and tell you early if the site cannot do what you need.