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Dimidium Design Company is a member of the Dimidium Group of companies.

The Dimidium Group is a land and property development company that co-ordinates all aspects of the land development process; identifying and maximising land development and investment opportunities.

Dimidium Design was established in August 2005 to formalise the professional relationships that the key team members have established since first working together in 1993.

With over ten years of continuous professional and personal association, Dimidium Design team of professionals now offers a suite of skills to developers, land owners, institutions, and government bodies with genuine depth, insight and real world experience.

Professional skill base

Dimdium Design Company has significant experience in a multitude of areas related to the planning, approval and development of urban, suburban and rural sites, including:

• Design, documentation and construction of buildings.
• Site potential analysis and feasibility studies.
• Master planning of suburban subdivisions, housing estates, town centres and commercial areas.
• The preparation and negotiation of development applications.
• The preparation of Constructions Certificate documentations and applications.
• The preparation, letting, analysis and negotiation of building tenders.
• Construction supervisions and contract administration services.
• Town planning and urban design services.

In addition to these core experiences, Dimidium Design Company offers extensive experience in town planning, real estate sales and marketing, development, market research and analysis.

With long-term indicators such as interest rates, immigration statistics and urban consolidation policy pointing towards steady urban growth, there is a future with demand for well designed, innovative, diversified development over the next decade.

Focusing on its strengths in strategic vision, building and urban design, diverse professional skills, dimidium design aims to continue to provide benchmark quality assistance and advice to developers, landowners and institutions in realising opportunities to create quality and profitable built outcomes for the future.

Approach

At the heart of Dimidium Design Company’s holistic approach to urban and building design is the professional relationship between Geoff Ferris-Smith and Tim Stewart established in 1993.

The Dimidium Design Company philosophy is founded in the belief that the best built environments and developments result from a close co-operation and synergy between building designers and town planners, working in direct consultation with builders, land and property owners, developers and regulatory bodies from project inception to realisation.

Throughout the life of commissioned planning and design projects, the Dimidium Design Company team undertake thorough record keeping, and assessments of cost, outcomes and timeframes; ensuring that both dimidium design and our clients have available to them information on the status and progress of each individual project at any time.

Dimidium Design Company ’s abilities and experience to provide appropriate approvable building and urban design solutions, combined with our understanding of our client’s financial expectations, and the machinations of the planning approvals processes, aims to minimise project risks.

Dimidium Design Company offers clients the assurance of the following professional attributes:

• Depth of experience in building & urban design, town & master planning.
• Extensive industry relationships with many of Sydney’s premier building industry companies & personalities.
• A proven dedication to best practice and time proven building standards.
• Membership of industry bodies including Royal Australian Institute of Architects – Affiliate Member
• A thorough in-house project & financial management program.
• A subsidiary planning company with access to quality sub-consultants and industry professionals to suit any type and size of project.
• Experience with a wide range of Local, State and Federal authorities including: Local Councils, Department of Planning, SOCOG, Department of Land and Water Conservation, Waterways Authority, Sydney Water, Department of Local Governments.
• Access to the latest industry technology including remote server system, current CAD software, internet accounts & access to Standards Australian, Building Code of Australia and Selector.com

Aims

With long-term indicators such as interest rates, immigration statistics and urban consolidation policy pointing towards steady urban growth, there is a future with demand for well designed, innovative, diversified development over the next decade.

Focusing on it’s strengths in strategic vision, building and urban design, diverse professional skills Dimidium Design Company aims to continue to provide benchmark quality assistance and advice to developers, landowners and institutions in realising opportunities to create quality and profitable built outcomes for the future.

The Team

DIMIDIUM DESIGN AIMS TO CREATE QUALITY AND PROFITABLE BUILT OUTCOMES FOR THE FUTURE.