Commercial fitouts, from lease to handover.
Independent project management for workplace, retail and hospitality fitouts. We take the project from the lease and the brief through design, approvals and construction to handover.
The space you lease, and what it lets you build.
Most fitouts are shaped by things outside the design: the lease, the landlord, the building and the date you need to open. Each type of fitout carries its own.
Workplace.
Your lease sets the rules for the fitout before design starts. What the landlord will approve, what the base building can supply and what you must hand back at the end of the lease decide what the design can include and when construction can start. We work through them first, so the design starts inside them.
Retail.
Centre design criteria, landlord approvals and trading hours shape both the design and the programme, and the opening date is usually fixed before the design is finished. On a rollout, a detail that fails in the first store fails in every store, so we settle the standard details once and carry them through every site.
Hospitality.
A venue needs more approvals than most fitouts: food safety, liquor licensing, fire, acoustics and access, each with its own authority and timeline. Kitchen exhaust and hydraulic services drive the base-building works. The opening date is a commercial commitment, and the approvals programme has to hold it.
What we do.
Before the lease.
Before you commit to a tenancy, we check what the building can support: services capacity, base-building condition, fitout guidelines and the approvals the use will need. The budget and programme are then set against the real building.
Delivery.
We assemble and manage the design team, run the landlord and authority approvals, procure the builder and administer the contract through to handover. You get one point of contact and reporting written for the people paying for the fitout.
Occupied and trading premises.
If your floor or venue must keep trading during the works, we plan the programme around that from day one: staging, after-hours works, isolations and access. We run rollouts and fixed opening dates the same way.
Make-good and defits.
At the end of a lease, we scope the make-good against the lease, agree it with the landlord's representative, and manage the defit through to the return of the space.
Fitout experience.
Delivered by our principal before method. was founded.
- Workspace reconfiguration.National member organisation, Barton ACT. Demolition of an existing workstation fitout, and design and delivery of its replacement. Separately, a ceiling replacement and full-tenancy LED upgrade for the same client.
- Tenancy defit and warm-shell return, Canberra.Demolition, new perimeter walls, electrical and mechanical separation.
- End-of-trip facilities refurbishment, Canberra.Refurbishment of the end-of-trip facilities in an occupied commercial building.
- Light rail maintenance and administration building, Mitchell ACT.John Holland. Senior project engineer. New-build facility, including the fitout of the administration building, and associated works.
- Commonwealth defence estate works program.Client-side project management of maintenance, refurbishment and new-build projects.
The full project record, including contractor-side delivery, is on the About page.
Ask for a call.
Tell us about the space, the lease and the date you need it by. A name, your organisation and a way to reach you are enough to start.