Project management that builds better spaces.
Independent, client-side project management for commercial fitouts and secure environments.
Ask for a callMost projects don't fail on construction.They fail in the gaps.
Between the brief and the design. Between the design and the price. Between the price and what arrives on site. At each handover, intent gets lost, and no single party owns the handover.
method. owns them.
On your side, and no one else's. We are an independent, client-side project manager. We act only for the party that engages us, and we are paid only by them. We take no commissions, referral fees or margins from builders, designers or suppliers. We work on commercial fitouts and refurbishments, hospitality and retail, workplaces, and facilities that must meet a security standard.
Commercial fitouts.
Most clients do a fitout once. The builder, the landlord and the consultants do them every week.
We engage and manage the design team, or work alongside one you already have. Either way, we are accountable to you for the budget, the programme, the contract and the landlord. That includes make-good obligations, fitout guidelines, services capacity and approvals. These are the items that most often stop a fitout.
Most of our work happens early. The costliest decisions are made before the brief is fixed and the lease is signed. A decision in week two costs a conversation. The same decision in month six costs a variation.
We have delivered this work from both the client side and the contractor side: full commercial fitouts, defits and make-good, smaller refurbishments, and services upgrades in occupied buildings. When a programme slips, we can tell you why.
Secure facilities.
Some facilities must be certified against security standards, particularly government and government-adjacent facilities.
A security consultant usually writes the security specification. The rest of the design team often miss the details that apply to their own discipline: the acoustic rating of a wall, the hardware on a door, a services penetration through the secure perimeter. By the time the design reaches the builder, each missing detail is an expensive oversight.
We manage the design and construction of new secure facilities as one project. The critical details are in the right design packages before a builder is engaged.
Existing facilities can fall out of compliance as standards change and buildings are altered. We assess them against the current standards, recommend what is needed to comply, and manage the remediation through to recertification.
How we work.
- Define.
- A signed-off brief. A budget ready for board approval, with its assumptions listed. A programme with the key dates. A recommendation on how to procure the design and the builder.
- Manage.
- Regular reports in plain language: cost against budget, programme against the date, what has changed, and the decisions we need from you, by when. A tender recommendation and a contract ready to sign.
- Deliver.
- The space handed over when you need it, with warranties, manuals and training. Defects closed out. A final account settled against the contract.
The principal runs your project.
That is Ross Newham, from the first meeting to the final account.
Ross has worked in commercial construction since 2008, for Tier 1 and Tier 2 contractors on health care facilities, courts, public infrastructure, multi-residential developments and commercial interiors. He has also worked client-side as a project manager and contract administrator, and has designed and managed security projects for Commonwealth and defence-adjacent clients.
Based in Bowral. Working across New South Wales, the ACT, Queensland and Victoria, and further afield when a project needs it.
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