Impact Design Consultants

Darren Whelan, a registerd Building Designer and owner/director of Impact Design Consultants, is well and truly qualified to lead his organisation with over 25 years working within the residential design industry.

Before starting Impact Design Consultants Darren was activily involved with his father's building company and was very hands on assisting his father with residential construction. This hands on experience has been nothing but beneficial to Darren which has instilled some valuable construction knowledge in the design field.

With stints in the larger residential building companies in his early career, Darren's training as a building designer was tested and opportunities to become the Design Manager, Workflow Manager and eventually the Operations Manager has enabled him to be a better business owner.

Darren is passionate about design, meeting his clients expectations to eventully fulfill their dreams.

Feasibility Studies

• Look at client requirements for potential development opportunities in particular a unit development site
• Investigate options to best suit the clients budget requirements and project outcomes
• Prepare a written report to assess the viability of the site for potential development

Conceptual Designs

• Prepare concept plans based upon client brief and/or ideas to better understand the overall design building project.
• Concept plans enable client and designer to “thrash out” design ideas and complexities
• At concept stage we like to investigate building costs so as budgets can be determined early in the design process

3D Visualisations

• 3D visualisations can be created in a black and white image or coloured image
• Existing site utilisation can be adopted to achieve a more realistic site image

Design & Development

• On more complex designs it is required to prepare design and development documents to enable construction details to be clarified and building regulations complied with.
• In particular modern or contemporary designed residences need this type of design work, especially in the more built up areas and inner suburban locations

Planning Applications

• Act on behalf of the client to assist in the planning process
• Prepare initial drawings for statutory planning pre-application meetings
• Report and prepare required documentation for planning submission
• Follow through with planning application process to achieved required client

Working Drawings

• Our working drawings are split into 2 stages, Standard Working Drawings and Optional Working Drawings
• The reason we do this is to give clients options and in some cases budgets restrict how much design work can be done to keep within clients financial control

For an understanding of the two stages and what they please refer to the list following:

Standard Working Drawings

• Site plan
• Existing conditions plan and demolition
• Proposed floorplan
• Proposed elevations
• Structural sections
• Framing schedule
• Overlooking diagrams
• Overshadowing layouts
• Electrical & Lighting plans (this can be in optional)

Optional Working Drawings

• Electrical & Lighting plans
• Internal elevations of wet areas
• Internal elevations of storage zones
• Floor covering plans
• Roof Plans
• Window & Door Schedules
• Earthworks plan
• Construction details
• Other details as deemed necessary for the purpose of building

Fixture & Fitting Schedules

• An option for all clients to take up and have idc prepare. This document gives an extensive list of all internal and external materials, fixtures and fittings to enable a builder to price your project more accurately

Tendering

• Tendering for Builders can be conducted by Impact Design Consultants, we have an extensive list of builders that we can tender to, to obtain pricing of your building project
• We are not limited to our list of builders, we are more than happy to tender to any builder that a client wishes us too. It must be noted that if we are to select the builder all candidates must meet our criteria and allow us to assess their capabilities to construct your building project

Other Resources

• Title Searches
• Land Surveying
• Soil Testing
• Percolation test
• Arborist Reports
• Civil Engineering
• Landscape Design
• BAL Reports
• Land Management Reports
• Ecological Reports
• Structural Engineering
• Energy Reports
• Building Permits

All of the above consultants are readily available to Impact Design Consultants and are more than happy to assist us in achieving your project goals.

Some projects require many of these consultants, some less. We are able to advise you with your design in the early stages what is relevant to your particular project.