Preparing to build with Brax
Initial Contact
From the first point of contact, you’ll get a sense of how organised we like to be! We’ll schedule our first meeting (the discovery meeting) and gather the information we need to kick things off.
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Discovery Meeting
It’s now time to really get to know you – our new client! We strive to get a good grasp on what you want to create, so we’ll do our best to learn everything we can about you and your project. We also use this time to help you understand the service Brax Building provides, and answer any questions you might have about the residential design and building process.
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Design Meeting
At this meeting, you, our contracted draftsman and Alex/Bryce will meet and discuss all the details associated with the first drafted plans. This meeting will take as much time as we all need – we want to get plenty of information. With the details gathered from this meeting, we’ll provide a quote for the design of your new home!
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Entering a Design Agreement
We now enter into a design agreement. This will cover the cost of getting a full set of architectural plans finalised and ready to submit a Development Application in the near future. Once a design agreement is signed, we create a portal that will allow communication between you, us, and our contracted draftsman. We find this to be extremely beneficial as it creates a channel to openly discuss ideas.
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Estimation
Things are really moving along now! With the plans provided from the design agreement we can provide a project estimation, which gives you a close prediction of your project cost. To provide a Final Fixed Price we will need a soil test, engineering plans and a set of contour plans – all included within our preliminary agreement.
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Preliminary Agreement
Here, we move into a preliminary agreement. This covers everything up to the build. We submit all listed applications and documents below on the NSW Planning Portal on your behalf – we always strive to make things easy and seamless for our clients.
- Soil tests
- Engineering plans
- Certification work agreement (client’s choice)
- Statement of Environmental Effects
- Section 68 application
- Development Application/Complying Development Certificate
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Final Fixed Price
We now have all the information needed to provide you with a final fixed price! We can also start to prepare contracts at this stage.
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Signing Contracts
After our contracts have been prepared, we’ll have a meeting and go through the contracts in depth. We’ll cover all necessary details to ensure both parties have a very clear understanding on how a building contract works, and what is – and is not – included within the contract.
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HBCF Insurance/ Deposit
At this stage, it’s time to send the deposit to lock your job into our next available construction slot. We will also be applying for the HBCF insurance that is compulsory on all residential building works over $20,000. Finally, we can now complete your Construction Certificate.
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Get excited – we’re ready to BUILD!
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Our Work
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Choosing to build with Brax Building was an easy decision. Not only did they provide a competitive quote, but were also enthusiastic about taking on the project, and were great with the initial consultations and contract signing process. Alex, Bryce and their competent team are extremely professional, great problem solvers and have utmost attention to detail.
Bec & Jock Rodgers
On all levels, Brax Building have been exemplary in efficient, effective and timely communication. We felt confident with their professionalism, could see they were open, honest, trustworthy and had the capacity, experience and positive approach to complete our development
Margaret & David Harthog
Brax Building completed our (quite large) house extension and renovation while we were still living in the existing house, and they all had an easy-going, kind-hearted, genuine, and respectful approach to working in and around our house with us in it. To top it off, they have been very reasonable with their costings. They are a wonderful team and I would recommend them to anyone.
Jess & Joel Baker
