Whether it’s a small renovation or a new home, N A Hill Designs will guide you through the entire process from our first meeting to gaining approvals for construction.
We take pride in delivering your dream home, starting with your ideas and making them a reality. Here is an explanation of the design process we use.
This is the basis for your design. This is where you communicate to your designer what you want in your home. Details like budget, styles and photos will all help the designer to understand your end goal. The client brief usually coincides with the first site visit where you designer can assess the requirements of your site. You can read more about preparing for your brief here.
Once the initial site visit and the client brief are completed we will produce a fee proposal. This outlines all design fees involved in the project (excluding council fees and consultant’s fees).
This is a set of plans created from the client brief. The purpose of these is to make sure the overall design is in line with your initial ideas. Details like window placement, materials used etc. can be refined once this initial concept has been approved by the client. Any major changes to the plans after the approval of the concept design may incur an additional fee.
Architectural plans are the next stage, based on the approved concept design that has been refined to include all the information required by council to approve a Development Application (DA).
Once a Development Application (DA) has been approved, a set of Construction Certificate (CC) plans can be issued. This is a more detailed set of plans for your builder and other consultants, such as engineers, to work from.
Architectural plans are either submitted to council for the approval of a Development Application OR submitted to a private certifier for approval of a Complying Development Certificate. Once you have either your DA or your CDC plans go to a licienced engineer to produce engineering documentation. Once engineering is complete a private certifier will issue a Construction Certificate and your builder will be able to put forward an accurate fee proposal for you. If you accept the fee proposal construction can commence.
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