Consulting is the work that happens before and around the building. Testing whether the project is viable at the budget you have, choosing between options while changing your mind is still free, and mapping the approvals and standards your project has to satisfy.
It is also the work of translation. Between what you want, what the site allows, what the regulations require, and what a contractor will actually price.
Answers before the money moves.
- A feasibility view: what can be built here, at what rough cost, over what timeline
- Options compared on cost, buildability and running cost, not just on looks
- A risk register: what could go wrong, how likely, what it would cost
- An approvals map: what consents your project needs and in what order
- A cost sanity check against current rates
- Written recommendations you can act on or take to another party
One of these is probably why you are here.
- You have a plot and an idea and no reliable sense of what it will cost
- You have quotes that differ by more than you can explain
- Someone has told you something is impossible and you want an independent view
- You are about to sign something large
Usually a short, defined engagement with a written output. We need whatever you already have: title documents, survey, drawings, quotes, correspondence.
The faster we see the real position, the less we charge you to discover it.
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