About Us
SYDNEY'S FAVOURITE ENGINEERS & SURVEYORS ESTABLISHED IN 1973

In the past 44 years, we’ve completed over 40,000 projects for residential, commercial and government clients throughout New South Wales, Sydney.
 
Our diverse portfolio abounds with projects ranging from family homes, residential apartments, and even granny flats, to commercial and industrial buildings and residential subdivisions all around Sydney and the greater Sydney area.
 
We pride ourselves on providing a true industry leading ‘one-stop-shop’ delivering innovative civil, structural and surveying services and solutions.
 
As market leaders and specialists in the areas of project home builders, government contracts, subdivision work, and architecturally designed projects for select clients including owner builders, we can offer you more options.
 
Our team has worked in Papua New Guinea (rural roads and mapping) to the United Kingdom (motorways and refineries), and Ireland.
 
We nurture, develop and employ some of the most ambitious professionals in Australia so that we can complete your projects on time and to your specifications.
From six staff in 1973, we’ve grown to over 40 and keep growing!
Going down the memory lane we see a small cottage in the back of the family home in the inner west – this was our very first office. A humble beginning but our vibrant team shared a big vision for a future of unlimited opportunity to help transform Sydney into the Sydney that it is today – one of the most liveable cities! Yes, to date we have worked on tens-of-thousands of projects.
 
Soon the demand was so great that the cottage could no longer contain our growing team, so from there in the mid-1980’s we moved to Parramatta to a small two story townhouse on Fennell Street.
 
In 1974, we commenced contract work for the Department of Lands and since then we have been aiding Government Departments, Building Companies, and Financial Institutions.
 
In 1981/82, we were responsible for the accurate positioning of the ‘Geodrill’ of the Sydney coast and associated with the Sewage Outfall Tunnels.
 
Those were big projects.
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Our business continued to grow and grow and grow all through word of mouth, and soon we needed to move to larger and then again larger premises two more times as the staff grew to 20+ and Parkes Street is where we are today, a two-storey office plus a federation cottage next door.
 
We have seen some big things happen over the years. For example, in 1989, we expanded into digital mapping, and the firm was successful in being accepted to provide data to the NSW state cadastral database.
 
Many other contracts followed with various government agencies all looking to convert existing graphical data into digital format. We struck gold! Associated with this was the need to reformat and translate digital data between different CAD and GIS systems. Only a handful of firms in Sydney could do that.
 
During the 1990’s, with the Olympics arriving in Sydney, we provided surveying services to this major project as well as other major construction projects in Sydney.
 
To date, we’ve worked on over 40,000 projects and counting!
Combine our unique level of experience with our young agile, enthusiastic and creative team of industry professionals guided by our time-tested processes and procedures and we’re confident we can offer you fast project turnaround times at fair prices.
 
Using only experienced engineers and surveyors is our policy and part of our secret to providing you with turnkey project management, and one-stop residential, commercial and industrial development solutions. By ‘one-stop’ we mean that we can take care of all your engineering and surveying needs!
 
A summary of our services
  • Residential developments
  • Alterations and additions
  • Civil design drafting for land development
  • Investigation and certification of all building development (existing and proposed) and on-going works
  • Subdivisions
  • Flood modelling and reporting
  • Structural design and certification for all building developments
  • Civil design and certification for all building developments
  • Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) services and solutions
  • Multi-storey development  
  • Recreational structures and facilities
  • Commercial buildings
  • Industrial buildings
Over the years we’ve designed many structures, buildings, and developed policies, regulations, and systems probably enough to fill a small library of books. But, we always look at the big picture. 

What makes us different is that with over four decades of industry-rich experience we’re experts in engineering and surveying. We have a friendly and diverse team of experts who prepare and process our jobs in a thorough and standardised manner. Our multicultural team includes employees who can speak to you even if you’re from a non-English background.
 
We will communicate with you in PLAIN English because we realise that if you’re like most of our clients you have no patience for techie talk. 
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Our people are across multiple disciplines located within a single office for your convenience. We don’t outsource overseas – all our work is completed here in our Parramatta office in Australia. We deploy rigorous quality checks and assurance to achieve high standards for your next project.
 
We look after our people because happy employees will happily look after clients. To this end, we provide our people with flexible hours, delicious snacks in the kitchen, social club activities, group BBQs, lunches and morning teas, together with a comfortable workspace (desk, stationary, printing facilities) without the dreaded office cubicles that stifle creativity and work enjoyment. By making our employees more connected and team-oriented ultimately you, our client benefits.
 
We also provide onsite parking, a central office location close to public transport, flexible working hours, and open workspace. Our people love it! We also have trivia nights and the comedy chat room on HipChat because we believe in work-life balance. Everything counts .
 
We understand that people have lives outside of work and that social events within the company are a great way to encourage team bonding.
 
Over the years, we have learned many useful insight including… 
Ease of communication between departments that is direct and straightforward empowers employees to complete projects in a productive and efficient manner.
 
Flexible work hours lead to employees being happy to come to work, which leads to excellent results in work for their clients.
 
Clients visiting our premises are often impressed that our team members can ‘stand-up’ and work together to achieve outcomes when required. This level of personal drive and ingenuity among our people is a product of hard work.  
 
We use careful profiling tools to select the best talent that shares our vision and fits our work culture, and then continue to develop their personal and professional skills on a regular basis. That way our people can relate to each other, which makes their work more enjoyable.
 
We’ve created a work environment where input from all employees on making our company better is welcome, appreciated and respected, which keeps us growing! Our ‘open door’ work policy between all staff members drives discussions and ongoing improvement.
 
Our personal development library (yes, we have a library in our office!) is intended to help our people develop life and personal productivity dimensions beyond engineering, which is a given! The library promotes learning and continuous improvement. It’s called The Library of Donovans.
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Our in-house R&D team is dedicated to the ongoing improvement of systems and procedures so we can deliver more value to you, every time.   
 
All this hard work is paying off with over 90% of our business coming from word of mouth referrals – our clientele has grown through our client referrals and we think this is a testament to the fact that the housing industry clients highly regard us because of the excellence of service and quality of our work.
 
Moreover, the fact that so many of our clients have been with us for decade one, decade two, decade three, and even decade four – yes well over forty years is a testament to our passion, dedication and outstanding customer service. Consequently, we are well known and highly respected in our fields.
 
Over the last several decades we have overcome fluctuating boom and bust periods in the building industry, the global financial crisis, and other challenges only to come out stronger than ever!
 
Back in the 80’s we were one of the first engineering and surveying firms to use a computer, we saw the excitement of the first fax machines, and more recently we developed specialists survey field data capture, job management systems, and today UAV data process technology, and more. 
 
We were the first engineering firm to design waffle raft slabs when the void formers were cardboard boxes and not the polystyrene used today.
We’ll continue to grow and innovate so we can offer you unbeatable value.

We are based in a central location (close to Harris Park and Parramatta stations) and provide services within a 250km radius.
 
Our current clients include many of the large building and development companies in Inner and Outer Sydney, Central Coast, Newcastle, Lithgow, and Wollongong. Partner with us today.
 
Memberships
  • Association of Consulting Surveyors
  • Engineers Australia
  • Concrete Institute of Australia
  • Australian Steel Institute
  • HIA

Contact Details

Tel: 02 9806 3000
Fax: 02 9891 2806

15 Parkes Street
Parramatta 
​NSW 2150

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