We offer a free initial consultation to define your project’s vision, budget, and critical timeframes. This can be on-site, at our studios or via online meeting.

Post-meeting, we provide meeting minutes outlining key factors and present a tailored Agreement for Architectural Services along with a Fee Proposal for your approval.

For certain projects, we recommend an initial Feasibility Study. (Click here for our 3-Step Feasibility Study).

Upon your approval to proceed with the project, we conduct a detailed examination of the Brief, including site analysis, measurements, and assessment of opportunities and constraints.

This involves reviewing existing structures, confirming local regulations, and initiating 3D Bulk and Massing Investigations.

Engaging a land surveyor is advisable for comprehensive site information and confirmation of boundaries.

Design options are rigorously examined against Pre-Design or Feasibility information, utilising spatial layouts, sketches, and initial 3D concept drawings.

Collaborating closely with you, we refine and confirm what aligns with your requirements and site parameters.

We aim to instil sustainable design solutions, practical layout options and foster the incorporation of Te Ao Māori and Pasifika design principles where suitable.

The final Concept Design proposal ensures alignment with your brief, offers creative alternatives and ensures compliance with to local authority regulations.

The preferred concept undergoes further refinement in this design stage, offering a clearer vision of the proposed design’s form, function, and specifications.

Advanced 3D models are employed to illustrate the design’s response to sunlight, optimal cladding choices, and its impact on the site and surroundings. If needed, documentation for a Resource Consent application is prepared. Engaging an Urban Planner may be advised.

Towards the stage’s end, involving a Quantity Surveyor (QS) is highly recommended to ensure alignment with expectations and budget.

In this phase, we collaborate closely with you and the QS to refine the design within your budget. We develop more detail in our drawing set and begin coordinating with other consultants such as Structural Engineers.

This allows for a meticulous examination of design details, ensuring alignment with the envisioned outcome. This stage provides a comprehensive understanding of project scope, costs, and the architectural aesthetic.

It is a pivotal and exciting phase, where ideas are fine-tuned before progressing to the creation of architectural drawings for consent and construction.

Ideally a “Frozen Plan” is agreed upon at the end of this design stage.

Depending on the project scope, this phase involves substantial effort architecturally. We generate detailed drawings and specifications for the design, serving multiple purposes:

• To tender and negotiate with a builder/ contractor

• For building consent application

• As a guide for the construction team during the building phase

Our approach is focused on creating practical and clear documentation, promoting cost control and enabling the builder to construct with confidence.

We coordinate and finalise the input of other consultants during this stage, integrating their information into the documentation before submitting for Building Consent Approval.

In this stage, we help you find the right builders for your project, traditionally through an ‘invited tender’.

An invited tender process typically requires up to three builders to submit a bid for the construction works.

Each builder would ideally be nominated based on their reputation, capability and ability to deliver quality.

The invited builders than submit a tender which would include their profile, proposed construction price and build programme.

We would then evaluate the tenders with you and award the construction contract to a builder for signing and a start date for construction is confirmed.

Now it is time to witness your vision turning into reality as your building takes shape under a contract between you (the Principal) and the builder (the Contractor).

Typically we administer the construction contract on your behalf, ensuring quality, time, and cost compliance. Our tasks include preparing documents, program monitoring, coordination, information provision, handling variations, maintaining cost records, and certifying valid claims.

We oversee the process from start to finish, notifying faults during the Defects Liability Period and issuing the Defects Liability Period Certificate and authorising retention release.

We are typically engaged to carry out site observations to monitor the construction to confirm what is being built is as per the construction documentation.

We would attend site visits and a review of the on-site construction against the design information and construction documents.

Detailed reports are provided and design reviews are carried out to assist the Contract Administrator to ensure quality, time and cost has been maintained to a high degree of care.

We conduct a final inspection before you move in, issuing a Practical Completion Certificate (PCC) and noting any minor omissions or defects.

During the defects liability period, the Contractor addresses deferred work or defects. After this period, we inspect again, issue a Defects Liability Certificate, and pass on all material warranties.

We ensure the Contractor obtains ‘Local Authority Building Consent Sign Off’ and provides you with Operations and Maintenance (O&M) manuals outlining responsibilities and guidelines for your home’s materials.

Ka pai, now it’s time to enjoy your new whāre!