Melbourne — Client-side project management
Client-side project management in Melbourne
Independent delivery leadership for the party paying for the project — owners, developers, tenants and boards. Based in Melbourne, on your side of the table from feasibility to handover.
M- Base
- Melbourne, VIC
- Fee basis
- 1.5–2.5% of contract
- First response
- Two business days
Local delivery
A Melbourne project, run by people who work here
On the ground, not on a dashboard
Design workshops, authority meetings, tender interviews, defect walks — we attend in person. Local presence is the difference between reading about a problem and standing in front of it.A market that moves quarterly
Tender coverage, contractor appetite and escalation in Melbourne shift fast enough that last year’s assumptions mis-price this year’s project. Our advice is anchored to what the market is doing now.The AI back office reads everything
Every drawing, register, programme and contract on your project is read continuously — the agents find, the people decide. You get Melbourne judgement backed by a machine that forgets nothing.Most project problems are visible in the documents months before they surface on site. Someone has to be reading.
The Victorian layer
The local rules most project managers skim
Security of payment runs differently here
Victoria’s excluded-amounts regime changes how claims, variations and time-related costs should be run from day one. Administer the contract like you are in NSW and you find out at adjudication.Permits, surveyors and staging
Private building surveyors, staged building permits, occupancy conditions and council requirements each carry programme risk. We sequence them into the programme rather than discovering them inside it.Amended contracts are the norm
Melbourne head contracts rarely arrive as unamended AS 4000 or AS 2124. We read every departure schedule before it costs you, and tell you which amendments actually matter.CBD and inner-suburb logistics
Loading zones, out-of-hours approvals, heritage overlays, crane airspace and neighbouring owners — delivery in this city is a permissions exercise as much as a construction one.Where we work
Metro Melbourne first, Australia-wide by design
Metro Melbourne
CBD, inner suburbs and the growth corridors — commercial, industrial, retail and fitout, for clients who want one accountable team rather than a rotating cast.Victoria and interstate
Regional Victorian projects run from Melbourne, and Australia-wide engagements where the documents, not the postcode, decide how well a project is run.Client-side, without exception
We never act for builders on the projects we manage, so there is no version of events where your project manager profits from your variation.Questions
Asked by Melbourne clients
What kind of projects do you take?
Commercial, industrial, retail and fitout — from single-building projects to staged programmes. If a full management appointment is more than the project needs, we will say so and quote a smaller engagement instead.Can you step into a project already underway?
Yes. A Project Health Check maps the current position first — programme, cost, contract administration, risk — and we step into delivery with a plan rather than a guess. The health check fee is credited in full if we proceed within 90 days.Do you attend site across Melbourne?
Metro-wide, CBD to the growth corridors, with presence scheduled to the stage of the project — heavier through procurement and closeout, steady through delivery.Who do we actually deal with?
A project director, directly. No account layer and no handover to a junior team after the proposal — the person who scopes your project runs it, with the AI back office behind them.Fees
Published like everything else
Project management — 1.5–2.5%
Of final construction contract value, fixed at appointment. Delivery-phase leadership with the AI back office reading every document as it changes.Full lifecycle — 2.5–3.5%
Feasibility to close-out, staged across phases so you can stop at any gate. The percentage is agreed before appointment and does not float with variations.Project Health Check — from $12,000 fixed
A fixed-fee read of a live project: programme, cost position, contract administration and risk — credited in full if you proceed to a management engagement within 90 days.The complete models
Every engagement model is on the services page, and what project management actually costs in Australia — including our fees — is published in the open.Reading for Melbourne owners: what construction project management costs in Australia and how extension of time claims actually get assessed.