Our services
These are not six separate products. They are the sequence a development runs through, and the decisions in each one constrain the next. We can join at any point — but we are at our most useful when we hold more than one.
Site identification, acquisition and feasibility.
The hardest constraint on a development is usually the one chosen at purchase. We assess what a site can actually carry — overlays, services, access, yield — before money is committed, and we have sourced sites for clients who had been looking unsuccessfully for years.
A community organisation had searched for suitable land for a decade. We found the site in Browns Plains, then won the approval on it.
See all land acquisition projects →Approvals pathway management — and appeals when the answer is no.
We manage the approvals pathway on your behalf: setting the strategy, engaging and directing the consultant team each constraint requires — town planner, architect, civil, traffic, landscape, bushfire, ecology — coordinating their technical inputs, and handling authority and stakeholder liaison. We do not write the planning reports. We decide what the case needs, get the right people to produce it, and stay accountable for the outcome.
A warehouse refused when a flood planning instrument changed the rules mid-assessment, and a subdivision contested on ecological grounds — both overturned in the Planning and Environment Court.
See all development approvals projects →Funding applications, development finance and lender requirements.
A building has to be paid for before it can be built, and funding carries obligations that run through the whole construction programme. We prepare Block Grant Authority applications for schools — business cases, cost plans, enrolment and facility forecasts built to the authority's assessment criteria — and we arrange development finance and manage lender conditions so reporting and drawdowns move with the works rather than behind them.
Funding secured for a school building, a childcare centre and a campus civil works package — then all three delivered against it.
See all funding & finance projects →Hydraulic engineering from concept to detailed design, and coordination of the whole design team.
Our own engineering is hydraulic: plumbing, fire, gas and drainage, designed by a CPEng and RPEQ registered principal. Across the rest of the design team our job is to make the disciplines agree with each other before documents go out, because a clash found on paper costs a fraction of the same clash found on site.
Nine design disciplines brought to one construction-ready set on a school building at Logan Reserve — two of them, hydraulic and fire, designed in-house.
See all hydraulic engineering projects →Procurement and construction-stage support as the client's representative.
We act as the client's representative — not as the builder's superintendent. Our job is to protect your commercial and delivery position: running a structured tender, reviewing what is claimed against what has actually been built, tracking programme and budget, and making sure you have the information to decide while decisions are still cheap. On occupied sites — schools that cannot close, campuses that stay open — the programme is sequenced around operations rather than around the contractor's preference.
A childcare centre on an operating school campus, delivered on schedule and on budget to a fixed opening date.
See all project management projects →Certification, commissioning, handover and defects.
The end of construction is where projects quietly go wrong — certificates unissued, manuals missing, defects unresolved after the builder has moved on. We close projects out properly, so the certification and acquittal evidence is assembled as the work proceeds rather than reconstructed at the end.
Buildings handed over at Durack and Logan Reserve with connection certificates and operation and maintenance manuals issued.
See all project management projects →Zedz is led by a Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) and Registered Professional Engineer of Queensland (RPEQ) with a doctorate from QUT and more than seventeen years in hydraulic engineering and complex project management. That matters most at the points where a project is usually weakest on the client side: judging whether a consultant's advice is sound, knowing which specialist a problem actually needs, and recognising a technical risk while it is still cheap to fix.
Plenty of our work is a single stage — a hydraulic design, an approvals pathway, a tender run and a construction stage held from the client side. Tell us where the project is and what is in the way.