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Practice fitouts, priced in the open.

Every other fitout site in this category asks you to fill in a form before it will discuss money. We publish the ranges, say what sits inside them, and name the standards your build has to satisfy before you can open the doors.

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Sectors with published cost ranges 4
Standards addressed at design stage 5
Capital cities covered 6
RACGP Standards AS/NZS 4815 & 4187 AS 1428.1 AS 1668.2 NCC Class 9a

You are allowed to know the number.

A practice fitout is usually the second-largest commitment a clinician makes after the practice itself, and the first question anyone asks is what it costs per square metre. Almost nobody in this industry will answer it on a public page.

We think that is backwards. If a range does not suit your budget you should find that out in ninety seconds, not after three meetings. So the ranges are on the site, with the inclusions and the exclusions written next to them. The things that genuinely move the number, like whether you have taken a warm shell or a cold shell, get explained before you sign a lease.

More on why we publish the numbers, what every healthcare fitout has to solve, or the questions people ask before they sign.

Fitout costs by sector How a project runs
Reception counter and waiting area in a healthcare fitout

Four sectors, four different problems

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Waiting area in a medical centre fitout

Medical centre fitouts

General practice runs on throughput. Reception and triage flow, waiting capacity, consulting rooms with acoustic privacy, and the RACGP requirements that gate accreditation. Specialist rooms run on equipment.

Medical fitouts
Dental surgery with chair and delivery unit

Dental fitouts

Surgeries are built around the chair and everything that feeds it. Suction, compressed air, water, waste and data go under the slab, and the sterilisation room layout is dictated by the reprocessing standards.

Dental fitouts
Consult room and treatment bench in a veterinary fitout

Veterinary fitouts

The only one of the three where the patients make noise, escape, and need to be kept apart. Acoustic separation, isolation wards, kennel drainage and a dedicated grief room are the parts owners wish they had planned earlier.

Veterinary fitouts
Consulting equipment in an optometry practice

Optometry fitouts

Two buildings in one lease. A shopfront that has to sell frames, and a clinical suite behind it that needs controlled light and a six metre optical working distance. Most fitouts get one of the two right.

Optometry fitouts

Start with the site

Tell us the sector, the floor area and where the tenancy is. If you have not signed yet, say so. That is the moment when advice is worth the most.

Where we work

Sydney Melbourne Brisbane

We will come back with a range and the questions that would narrow it.

One team from site assessment to handover

Site & lease assessment Test fit & concept Compliance & approvals Construction Equipment coordination Handover & defects

The questions worth asking early

Most fitout overruns are decided before a single trade is on site: in the lease, in the shell condition and in the approvals pathway.

These are the ones that change budgets the most, answered plainly.

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Warm shell or cold shell, and why it matters

A warm shell arrives with base building services already in: conditioned air to the tenancy, a ceiling grid, lighting, sprinklers, an accessible path of travel and often a bathroom. A cold shell is a concrete box with a power supply and a water point.

The difference between the two is routinely a few hundred dollars a square metre before you have chosen a single finish. Landlord incentives are often quoted in a way that blurs which one you are being given, so it is worth confirming in writing at heads of agreement.

Does a clinic need a development application?

Frequently, yes. A tenancy previously used as a shop or an office is a different building classification to a health-care use, and changing it is an approval in its own right, separate from the construction certificate for the works.

Parking, waste storage, signage, hours of operation and accessible access all get assessed at that point. Council timeframes, not construction, are the usual reason an opening date slips.

Can we refurbish without closing the practice?

Usually, by staging the work so a functioning set of rooms, reception and an accessible toilet is always available. It costs more than a single continuous program, because of the extra mobilisations, out-of-hours work, temporary partitions and dust and noise control between zones.

Staging is worth pricing both ways early, because for many practices the lost revenue from closing exceeds the premium for working around you.

Who buys and installs the clinical equipment?

You do, almost always, and the published cost ranges on this site exclude it. What matters is that the equipment is selected before services are set out, because chairs, imaging units, autoclaves and steriliser benches each dictate their own power, water, drainage, suction, shielding and clearance requirements.

Choosing equipment after the slab is cut is the single most expensive sequencing mistake in a clinical fitout.

How long does a fitout take?

Construction on a typical suburban clinic of 150–250 m² is a matter of weeks rather than months. Design, documentation and approvals in front of it are usually the longer half of the program, and they are the half that varies most by council.

Any builder quoting you a date without knowing your approvals pathway is quoting the easy part.

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Where we work

Sydney

Clinical tenancies across the metro area, from strata suites in the inner west to standalone medical centres in the north and south-west growth corridors.

Medical fitouts in Sydney

Melbourne

Retail-to-clinic conversions on suburban strips, and consulting suites in the medical precincts around the major hospitals.

Medical fitouts in Melbourne

Brisbane

Greenfield centres in the growth corridors north and south of the river, and refurbishments of ageing practices across the inner suburbs.

Medical fitouts in Brisbane

And Perth, Adelaide and Canberra

Six capitals, six approvals pathways. The build rate barely moves between them; the time to get approved moves a great deal.

All locations

Send us the floor plan and the lease

We will tell you what the space can take, where the money goes, and what the approvals pathway looks like, all before you are committed to it.

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