Building or Renovating a Property You Own
Whether it's a considered apartment refurbishment or a ground-up luxury build, RFT Consultancy manages your design team, your approvals and your builder — end to end — so you experience the process without the stress, and without it taking time away from your job, your business or your family.
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Explore Development Management →One team, managing every stage of your project.
Design Management & Statutory Approvals
Design determines the outcome of your project more than any other phase — and it's where most delays and budget blowouts actually begin. We engage and manage your architect and consultant team, and align every design decision with your brief and your budget.
Construction Tender & Contract Award
We run a competitive, apples-for-apples tender process — eliminating the scope gaps and vague exclusions that later become costly variations — then negotiate a contract that protects your interests before a single trade sets foot on site.
Contract Administration & Delivery
Once your builder is on site, we oversee progress, cost and quality on your behalf — running regular site meetings, tracking costs live, and managing every variation, claim and certificate through to a clean, defect-free handover.
Procurement
Where it adds value, we manage procurement of fixtures, appliances and furniture directly — accessing trade pricing, avoiding builder mark-ups, and making sure long lead-time items are ordered well ahead of when you need them.
The budget is set — or lost — before a builder is ever engaged.
Most cost blowouts don't start on site. They start months earlier, when a design quietly drifts past the budget it was meant to serve — often because no one in the room has the experience or the mandate to hold the line. Managing that tension from the first design meeting is where RFT Consultancy adds the most value — and we continue to closely manage costs throughout tender, contract and construction, right through to handover.
Everything a project needs. One team to hold it together.
Design & Consultant Management
Architect, engineers, surveyor, heritage and energy consultants — engaged and coordinated as one team.
Approvals & Authorities
Council, planning, strata and utility approvals managed and tracked through to consent.
Tender & Contract
A competitive tender process and a contract carefully negotiated to protect your interests from day one.
Live Cost Tracking
Cost visibility from the day we're engaged — through design and approvals, not just once construction begins.
Site Meetings & Reporting
Regular site meetings, formal minutes and time-stamped progress photos throughout construction.
Defects & Handover
An ongoing defects process, started well before completion so your builder can action items while trades are still on site.