When all the research has been done, when you have finished vetting the many architects, the numerous builders and the plethora of home designers and you have finally decided to place your trust in us, we guarantee to take very seriously the responsibility of working with you to consolidate your unique vision with our creativity and pragmatism into a magnificent residence built to suit your lifestyle.

We will bring together a professional team of people to translate your vision into a practical and beautiful building design. We will take away the pain of complying with Local Government policies, the Residential Design Codes and the Building Code of Australia.

We will take you right through from the initial interviews, into preparing preliminary sketch plans and finally to detailed plans that you are happy with, ‘holding your hand’ the whole way. Once we are all happy with what has been proposed we will present an estimate of costs to you and make sure everything is on track.

We take the time to have meetings with the Local Government Town Planners, to receive their advice on what they will or won’t approve in the very early design stages.

Local Authorities these days require quite detailed plans to be provided in order for them to process a planning application. The information they prescribe for a planning application is almost as much as would be required on full working drawings. It is for that reason we need to make sure what we are presenting will get approved and that it won’t be changed too much as we move forward.

We will keep you abreast of all the many Local Government requirements, stand up for your rights should they become overbearing, ensure they deal with your application promptly and make sure there are no impediments getting in the way of an approval.

Once we know we will receive planning approval, the third phase of the design procedure is to translate the sketch drawings into working and structural drawings and a detailed specification of finishes and standards throughout your home.

When the detailed drawings have been prepared we send these drawings out to our regular subcontractors and suppliers and obtain back from them firm quotations. When these quotations have been received we calculate the quantities and collate the information to form a firm, fixed price Construction Cost Quotation.

A very important point you should be aware of is the fact that all of your provisional sum (PS) and prime cost (PC) allowances in our specification have been sent to our subcontractors and suppliers to obtain actual quotes. This means you are secure in the knowledge that there will be no "hidden" extras after signing the Building Contract with Brian Burke Homes.

The last phase of the design procedure is for you to accept the quotation for the construction price.

We then submit all of the construction drawings to the Local Authority to obtain a building licence.

Once the building licence is issued and the Construction Contract has been executed we can proceed immediately with construction.