Services
Five engagements. Most projects start with one and move into another as the site moves from question to program.
Own a site? Start with a Site AppraisalSiteIdentification& Acquisition
Finding the site and getting it bought. Vettex searches on and off market, tests what each site will carry, and runs the acquisition from the first offer through to settlement.
What I do
- Site search, on and off market
- Highest and best use testing
- Feasibility and yield studies
- Planning and title risk review
- Offer strategy and negotiation
- Acquisition through to settlement
When you need it
You have the capital and the mandate but not the site, or you have found one and need to know what it will carry before you commit. The yield and the numbers get tested first, then the acquisition is run to settlement.
DevelopmentManagement& Advisory
Running the development itself. Vettex takes the site from a feasibility question to a finished, occupied building and owns the budget and program the whole way. Where a client has their own team, the same experience is available as advice.
What I do
- Feasibility, yield testing and acquisition support
- Planning strategy and authority negotiation
- Performance-based approvals where the code offers no standard path
- Consultant team selection and management
- Budget, cashflow and program ownership
- Builder procurement and contract negotiation
- Delivery oversight through to handover
- Advice to in-house teams and boards
When you need it
You own a site, or are about to buy one, and there is no one accountable for the whole project. You want one person to take it from the feasibility question through planning, procurement and delivery. Or the building the site calls for is one the standard code provisions do not contemplate, and the case for it has to be built and carried. Or you have a team already and want a second, accountable view on the decisions that carry the risk.
Design & ValueManagement
Running the design on the owner's side. Vettex sets the brief, coordinates the consultants and keeps the scheme buildable, on budget and on program from concept to tender documentation. Where the numbers stop working, a structured review against the cost plan takes out the cost that adds nothing and keeps the value the project depends on.
What I do
- Design brief and project requirements
- Consultant appointments and scopes
- Design program and stage sign-offs
- Buildability and coordination review
- Mass timber and performance-based fire strategies
- Cost plan checks at each design stage
- Workshops with the design team and cost planner
- Priced alternatives and specification rationalisation
- Tender documentation review
When you need it
Early, while the design is still moving, or later when the cost plan or a tender price has come back over budget. Someone on your side of the table keeps the scheme buildable and on budget as it develops, and finds the savings that do not cost the project its end value. On a mass timber or otherwise non-standard structure it also means the fire and structural engineers are at the table from the start, so the approval strategy and the design are settled together rather than one after the other.
ProjectManagement
Delivery management on a project that already has its direction set. Contract, cost, program and reporting.
What I do
- Contract administration
- Program management and critical path
- Cost control, variations and claims
- Consultant and contractor coordination
- Monthly reporting to owners and financiers
When you need it
Approvals are in place, a builder is contracted or about to be, and you need someone on the owner's side of the table. Contract administration, cost control, program and reporting, run by someone who has sat on the builder's side too.
BuilderDue Diligence
An independent read on the builder, not the site. Before a developer signs a building contract or a financier commits at the early deal round, the question is whether that entity can carry this job.
What I do
- Entity, director and shareholder searches
- Insolvency, litigation and judgement searches
- Capability, track record and current pipeline
- Directors' meeting and industry references
- Financial risk review with a specialist accounting firm
- Weighted rating, report and post-review meeting
- Contract method review, when instructed
When you need it
Before a developer engages a builder, or at the early deal round when a financier needs to know the builder can carry the project. Reports issue about fifteen business days after the builder's information arrives, or four to five weeks including collection.