Comprehensive Building & Design Services

The right service is usually determined by the block rather than by preference. A pre-1947 house in a Brisbane character area cannot simply be demolished, which turns a knockdown rebuild enquiry into a raise-and-build-under project. A block that fails on frontage cannot support a duplex regardless of its area.

So the first step on any enquiry is the same: we check the zone, the overlays, the soil classification, the services and the access. That tells us what is achievable, and often answers the question of which service applies.

The council property report is free and shows most of it. If you send us an address we will pull it and tell you what your options actually are.

If the existing structure is sound and the layout can be reworked without relocating everything, renovation usually wins on cost per square metre and on time. If you are moving the kitchen, the bathrooms and the external walls, you are approaching rebuild cost for a compromised result.

A rebuild delivers a house built to current standards throughout, including the energy efficiency provisions now applying to new Queensland homes. A renovation only brings the parts you touch up to current requirements.

Where demolition is restricted by a character overlay, raising the existing house and building in underneath frequently delivers more usable floor area than either, while retaining the character value that drives resale in those suburbs.

Duplex and townhouse projects are development projects, and they are assessed differently. Feasibility comes before design: zone, frontage, sewer alignment, stormwater discharge and services capacity all decide whether a site works before anyone draws anything.

The intended exit then shapes the design. Holding and renting rewards durability and practical layout. Selling to owner-occupiers rewards finish level and street appeal. And if the halves are to be sold separately, the title path has to be planned from the start.

We will run the feasibility and tell you plainly when a site does not support the project, including when the better answer is a single house.

Fixed-price contracts backed by complete working drawings, engineering and a documented selections schedule, so provisional sums stay few and specific.

A defined stage program with progress claims aligned to it, and variations priced and approved in writing before any work proceeds.

QBCC licensed, with work covered under the Home Warranty Scheme. We will give you our licence details so you can check the register yourself before signing anything.