personnel
The Doma Group Development and Construction Division have the skills and knowledge required for the design and delivery of this development. The project team has experience working with similarly large scale projects including the Sirius Building (Department of Heath and Ageing), Aviation House, Hotel Realm (and the balance of the 75,000 square metres Realm precinct) and the proposed 13,300 square metres NLA office building on the former St John headquarters in Forrest. Many of the individuals on the project and consultant team have worked on some of Canberra’s largest commercial office buildings.
Technical Ability
The Doma Group has experience and skills in all areas required ensuring the timely and economical delivery of the Department’s property requirement:
- Design development. In-house development design team working with consultant team to assess available alternatives to meet the design brief produced by the Department.
- Cost planning. An external cost-planner is appointed to compile a bill of quantities and establish market rates for all trade packages. This cost plan is then modified by the in-house cost planner and construction project managers to reflect actual costs based on trade cover, consultant estimates and experience from current projects.
- Programming. This is carried out internally by the senior project manager. The program is not looked at in isolation from the cost plan. Rather, rigorous analysis is undertaken of alternate design solutions and construction techniques to assess the impact on the program and/or the cost plan in order to optimise the final design. An optional integrated fit-out program is also built up immediately within the base building program.
- Development approval. The Doma Group has extensive experience in all facets involved in obtaining development approval for this project.
- Design documentation. Working with the consultant team, the project delivery team has the experience and capability to develop full documentation and issue tender packages and manage an ordered procurement program.
- Base building construction. The project delivery team has significant experience in constructing the building in accordance with all development approvals and design documentation and ensuring compliance with the Department’s base building brief.
- Optional integrated fit-out construction. The project delivery team have significant experience in delivering efficient integrated fit-out for Commonwealth tenants in a professional manner that provides certainty and confidence for the tenant.
Partnership
Coming soon.
Community involvement
Servcorp and The Doma Group Trivia Night 2010
Servcorp and The Doma Group this year, with the assistance of many generous Canberra sponsors were able to raise $180,000.
All funds were donated directly to Youngcare ($85,000), Home in Queanbeyan ($85,000) and the ACT Eden Monaro Cancer Support Group ($10,000).
Youngcare are currently in the process of building homes nationally for young Australians with high care needs or disabilities who require 24 hour care. There are currently over 6500 young Australians with high care needs living in aged care facilities – no place for young people – Youngcare is all about changing that. Youngcare have also commenced a new initiative called Youngcare Connect – a hotline for families and people with high care needs to provide assistance, advice and support on a 24 hour basis.
HOME in Queanbeyan will be opening on 1 July 2010 – it has been truly amazing to watch this initiative become a reality. HOME in Queanbeyan will provide 24 hour care for 20 people with chronic mental illness who are without proper shelter, care, love and support. HOME will also offer short term respite care for 5 people, enabling the carers and families to have some restorative time.
The ACT Eden Monaro Cancer Support Group is currently offering assistance and support to 1600 families in the ACT and Eden Monaro regions who are facing the realities of cancer on a daily basis. This includes not only support for the person with cancer, but dealing with devastating effects it can have on families emotionally and financially.
We are, as always, humbled by the generosity of the Canberra community and are proud to be associated with companies involved in our quest to make a small contribution to the betterment of our community through improving the quality of the lives of people in need.