OUR CAPABILITIES
North works across a diverse range of projects within the commercial, education, aged care, health, industrial, infrastructure, retail, and hospitality sectors. We specialise in early contractor involvement, construct only, design and construct and construction management.
Early Contractor Involvement (ECI)
North’s Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) with clients begins at the earliest stages of design development where we can provide advice and help get the project program, methodology and, of course, budget where it needs to be.
Our ECI process is based on mutual trust between us and our clients. North’s ECI approach is 100% transparent where we fully disclose all preliminaries, subcontractor prices, our overheads and our margins. All completely open book.
We believe trusted procurement partnerships should really be called “Building with Trust”.
Our highly skilled ECI team works collaboratively across your project group providing guidance, cost saving recommendations, design alternatives, value engineering and buildability resolutions as needed. We pride ourselves on being your trusted advisor from the very beginning.
Early Contractor Involvement (ECI)
Design and Construction
The design and construction delivery method at North is tried and true. Our fully integrated team will develop and deliver an optimum plan with the most cost effective, sustainable and energy efficient design options to meet your needs.
Our model allows you to deal with one entity throughout the life of the project from inception to delivery. By trusting our ability to integrate both our design expertise and building prowess you can be reassured of knowing project costs and timeframes at an early stage.
We’re proud to be the one entity that carries a project from concept to completion and work hard to exceed expectations.
Design and Construction
Value Engineering and Innovation
North’s value engineering and innovation services are becoming an ever more important service in these challenging times. We understand the budgetary impediments our client’s face in getting their project out of the ground and our highly skilled team can compile a list of possible saving options during the tendering and open-book pricing process for consideration.
Our proposed options are subject to a full analysis, detailing cost saving, life cycle and maintenance obligations before being finalised.
Our collaborative process has delivered significant savings, and in many cases, made the difference between projects proceeding or having to go back to an expensive redesign and approval process.
Value Engineering and Innovation
Construction Management
Construction management services offered by North involve an open and transparent approach to contracting, providing our clients with design management flexibility and strict budget control.
As with all areas of our business, we strive to build trust with clients through our practices. As such, we provide construction management on a fixed fee basis, removing any incentive to increase scope.
As with all services we offer, our construction management process is completely transparent and upheld by a strong company culture which sees remarkable consistency across all of our projects.
Construction Management
Cost Planning
At North, we are keen to assist clients to bring their developments to reality and our cost planning services do that by providing an accurate analysis of their overall project that is in line with their objectives and budget constraints. North maintains an extensive database from completed projects and has an experienced cost planning team ready to assist in feasibility studies and business case development.
Cost Planning
Traditional Lump Sum Tendering
We use this traditional procurement method when a client has developed a detailed design and documentation package with their consultant team. Our experienced team of quantity surveyors and estimators then use this to prepare a high-quality lump sum hard dollar tender, something they consistently do as part of their day-to-day preconstruction activities.
