Hughes Bruce Australia Pty Ltd

Established in 1993, the business is based in Sydney and operates across Australia. Our expertise extends over new build developments, tenancy remodelling and tenancy relocations, from small to multi-floor projects.

Built around a core group of accomplished ‘design strategists’ and ‘entrepreneurs of ideas, our knowledge, exceptional ability, creative talent, and experience, ensure inspirational, balanced, performance-driven interior solutions.

We support our customers to forecast, estimate, and resolve their future accommodation needs. With our assistance, our customers can make the educated and strategic property and investment decisions.

Our customers are our focus, and we love experiencing the transformation and the many progressive and positive impacts that our expertise has brought to our customers and their operations. To see our customer’s culture strengthen, and people’s well-being improves, are some of the many wonderful outcomes achieved from the environments that we create.

Hughesbruce provides Interior Architecture and Management of the project as an integrated and complete discipline. This provides a platform for streamlined communication throughout the project to ensure our customer's vision and objectives are achieved and optimised.

Trust, understanding and communication with our customers are paramount to achieving the timeless and valued outcomes that we aspire to. We partner with our customers from briefing to completion and we nurture the journey of exploring options, educating and guiding through the processes to achieve exceptional solutions.

Our projects are designed and managed as complete fully resolved solutions that are a product of informed intelligent decisions and strategies.  Project elements are explored to optimize the benefit to our customer's operations, including space efficiency, aesthetics, function, costs, quality, value-added, sustainability, knowledge sharing, green initiatives, future dynamics, value to the team, and personnel experience.

Our expertise and experience in design and management allow us to resolve challenges and achieve solutions that accomplish great benefits and value to our customers.

Our design and management processes ensure that the design, quality, cost and program are retained as planned and intended, and not subject to potential dilution through the fitout process.

Effective space planning is fundamental to a successful interior environment.

The benefits of skilfully engineered space can impact people’s wellbeing, contentment and productivity. Understanding the sensitivity of space and the emotional connection that people have with the space is the key to our design philosophy and the outcomes that we achieve.

Our skills in space planning have contributed to our highly regarded reputation in the industry and our recommendations and referrals to customers. Intelligent and creative space analysis and planning is a talent not commonly found, and yet makes a substantial difference to the appreciation of space, customer financial commitment, personnel sustainability, productivity, and overall business operation.

We are regularly engaged to assess and explore ways to optimise space, determine inefficiencies and eliminate dull under-utilised areas. We create volumes that inspire, and that enhance concepts that work together to create a brilliant design.

We are passionate about interior architecture, intelligent space planning and design, and the positive impact these can have on our customer's operations. Our interior solutions excite the senses and bring a feeling of energy, abundance, elevation, and success.

We understand that the interior space is a reflection of an organisation's goals, ambitions, culture, attributes and success, and it is important to have the right presentation for their industry.  When our customers present to their clients the message needs to be demonstrated in their culture and tenancy operations, as well as in the pitch.

The physical world can be a powerful resource in creating happier healthier lives. Intense momentary experience of positive emotion makes us feel good at the moment and makes us smile and laugh.  Variety in space, design elements, and colour has proven that people are more alert, more confident, and more responsive than in unimaginative poorly planned environments.  These are tangible attributes that can make a lasting impression on our daily wellbeing, motivation and productivity.

We are committed to understanding our customer's vision and succeeding in achieving their aspirations and objectives. By applying our passion, knowledge and experience to these objectives we can make a defining positive difference in our customer's future. This is our reward, to produce great results and witness our customers prosper and enjoy them.

Interior space, office dynamics, and regulations are changing rapidly. We are across the need for flexibility and interior solutions that can adapt to local and world-changing events with ease. But most importantly, we create the solutions that best suit our customers needs, and that will enhance their growth and future.

Our projects are fully managed with our customer's objectives and aspirations firmly established from the outset. All decisions revolve around the strategies and planning we develop with our customers.

The detailed and well-coordinated documentation and specifications, for tender and construction, eliminate opportunities for misinterpretation and compromising substitutions during the fitout process, and are reviewed and monitored throughout the project.

Both the design and fitout processes are managed in keeping with our customer's expectations and the design intent, and the solutions are derived for the best possible outcomes.

Our skills in management encapsulate knowledge, experience and skills in detail integrity, knowledge of construction and costs, understanding of commercial realities, risk mitigation, implementation, and transitional logistics.

The Management processes involve:

• Overseeing the entire project with all sub-consultants, trades and suppliers
• Conducting steering committee meetings
• Conducting PCG/ site meetings, reporting and minutes
• Strategic project planning and risk mitigation
• Authorities – advice, submissions and approvals
• Specialist consultants and engineers – engagement and management
• Cost & budget determinants and value management
• Program determinants and risk management
• Contract management – procurement, tender, contracts, orders
• Implementation management – contractors, specialists, engineers, authorities
• Completion – compliance, authorisation, certification,
• Handover – completed works, design and fitout manual

We support our customers with the complete package of Design and Management which offers the best outcomes. We are flexible however and can provide our expertise separately or in combination, to suit a specific customer or project.  These services are:

• Design Consultancy
• Strategic analysis/premises options
• Space planning options
• Home Office Solutions
• Re-assess / maximise net lettable area
• CAD plans for base building floor plates
• Conceptual designs
• Interior Design
• Documentation
• Project Management