Commercial
Fitout, upgrade and compliance work delivered against a brief, a budget and a date.
Twenty years of commercial and institutional projects — aged care, workplaces, retail and hospitality, cinemas, civic and education buildings. Repeatable delivery, documented properly, on the programme the client set.
Commercial work rewards a different discipline to housing. The brief is written down. The programme is fixed. The measure of a good consultant is whether the documentation is complete, the approvals land when they are supposed to, and the contractor can build from the drawings without a fortnight of RFIs.
That is the work we do, and it is the work we are expanding.
Where the work has been, and where it continues.
Sector capability is held across the practice, not by one person. Our team brings recent health and education experience alongside the principal’s twenty years across commercial, institutional and civic work.
Residential aged care and retirement living — independent living units, common facilities and staged upgrades to occupied buildings. Work we are actively expanding, and where the National Aged Care Design Principles now set the reference.
Office fitout, tenancy upgrades and end-of-trip facilities — bike storage, showers, lockers and the compliance that comes with them.
Shopping centres, restaurants, cafés and hotels. Short programmes, tight budgets, and a fitout that has to open on the day it says it will.
Cinemas, lounges and premium seating, and the recreational facilities that sit alongside them.
Schools, libraries, early learning and training facilities. Work programmed around terms and holidays, because that is the only window there is. Capability held across the practice, including staff with recent sector experience.
Council and government facilities, community centres, emergency services and sporting infrastructure.
Warehouses, distribution and light industrial — including tenancy fitout within larger estates.
Superyacht marina and waterfront facilities, including work in and around working harbour sites.
Day surgeries, consulting suites and clinical fitout. Major hospital work sits earlier in the practice history and now informs our aged care and clinical fitout work rather than being pursued for its own sake.
* Work undertaken by Jonathan Spicer as Associate at the Quinlan Group (previously ArcEngine), 2006–2017.
Some clients do not have one building. They have forty, and they need the same thing done in all of them, to the same standard, without forty separate conversations.
We have run that work — a standard design adapted site by site, documented consistently, approved through whichever authority each site sits under, and delivered on a rolling programme.
Food service facilities rolled out across hospital sites — each one a live clinical environment with its own constraints, delivered to a common standard.
National tenancy rollout programme, documented once and adapted per site.
Cinema and premium seating upgrades across a national circuit.
Tell us the building, the programme and the budget. We will tell you what is feasible and what it will take — before anyone commits to anything.
Spicer Architecture — Nominated Architect Jonathan Spicer. Registered Architect: NSW 8851 · ACT 2959 · Victoria VIC00291.
Registered Design Practitioner (Architectural) and Registered Principal Design Practitioner under the Design and Building Practitioners Act 2020 (NSW).
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* Work undertaken by Jonathan Spicer as Associate at the Quinlan Group (previously ArcEngine), 2006–2017.