Commercial, industrial and domestic projects — planned, priced and delivered.
Melba Building Group is the head business behind the Melba names. Nathan Maries has spent 22 years in construction and the last nine managing projects: retirement living, schools, health, insurance and small commercial. You deal with the person who runs the job.
- Domestic
- Commercial
- Industrial
The three sectors
One business, three kinds of work. Each is scoped, priced and contracted differently, and you are told which one your job sits in before anything is signed.
Homes and residential property
Scoping and pricing, project management, defect and compliance rectification, insurance and make-safe works, and ongoing property maintenance. Domestic building work over $10,000 is contracted and carried out by a registered builder — ours or one we introduce you to directly.
Class 2 to 9 buildings
Offices, retail, medical, education, hospitality and retirement living. Refurbishment, fit-out, remedial and staged works — including buildings that stay open and occupied while the work runs. Low rise only.
Factories and warehouses
Light industrial fit-out, structural repairs, roofing and water ingress, access and plant works, make-safe, and planned or reactive site maintenance across multiple sites.
What the group actually does
Melba Building Group manages and delivers building work. It holds the programme, the money and the trades, and it answers for the result.
- Project management and delivery
- Estimating, scoping and tendering
- Contract administration and programme
- Trade and subcontractor coordination
- Refurbishment and remedial works
- Planned and reactive maintenance
- Insurance, make-safe and emergency works
- Defect and compliance rectification
- Cost reporting and variation control
- Handover, defects and close-out
The trades are subcontracted to people who have worked with Nathan for years. That network is the reason the group can hold a mixed workload without carrying a permanent crew.
Track record
Nathan delivered the work below as project manager and estimator for Diamond Property Developments and Key Integrated. It is his record rather than the group's, and it is the reason the group takes on the work it does.
20+ occupied villages
Refurbishment, remedial, roofing and water-ingress make-safe works across occupied villages for major operators, including Keyton (Lendlease), Stockland and Aveo. Residents in place throughout.
Eltham College
Auditorium, Senior School and Observatory. Multi-stage building and refurbishment works delivered inside term-break windows.
Operating facilities
Cohealth Kensington refurbishment and Riversdale Orthodontic. A staged medical centre where both the surgery and the pharmacy stayed open seven days a week for the whole build.
Make-safe and reinstatement
Insurance-funded remedial and reinstatement work, scoped and priced from first attendance through to handover.
How a job is contracted
Three routes. You are told which one applies before you commit to anything.
-
Direct
Melba Building Group contracts the work and delivers it. Commercial and industrial projects, and domestic work under $10,000.
-
Through a registered builder
For domestic building work over $10,000, a registered builder holds the contract with you and carries out the work. Nathan manages the delivery. You see both names and both roles in writing.
-
Referred on
If the job is outside what the group does, or the timing genuinely does not suit, you get introduced to someone who will do it properly. No fee and no mark-up for the introduction.
What the group does not do
Worth knowing up front. It saves everyone a phone call.
Out of scope
- Medium and high rise commercial. Anything above low rise goes to a builder who does it.
- New homes. Not the work, not the interest.
- Domestic building work over $10,000 under the group's own contract. That is contracted through a registered builder.
- Work the group is too busy to do properly. You will be told, and you will be given a name.
The Melba structure
Melba Building Group is the head business.
Melba Building Inspections sits under it — same ABN, same person on site. As registration allows, further divisions will sit under the same name: commercial first, then domestic. They will run as separate businesses with their own way of working. They will answer to the same standard.
Need a building inspection?
Pre-purchase and stage inspections are handled by the inspections arm, Melba Building Inspections. melbabuildinginspections.com.au →
Who you are dealing with
Nathan Maries.
- 22 years in domestic and commercial construction
- 9 years managing projects, estimating and delivery
- Certificate IV in Building and Construction Management (Domestic)
- Diploma of Project Management (BSB50820)
- Member, Housing Industry Association — No. 1405616
One point of contact from the first site walk to the final defect. No account manager, no handover to someone who was not there.
Where the group works
Commercial and industrial work across metropolitan Melbourne. Domestic and maintenance work across the north-east corridor.
- Greensborough
- Diamond Creek
- Eltham
- Montmorency
- Bundoora
- Mill Park
- South Morang
- Whittlesea
- Ivanhoe
- Heidelberg
- Preston
- Templestowe
- Doncaster
- Kew
- Epping
Get in touch
Tell us what needs doing. You will get a straight answer on whether it is our work, and a name if it is not.
nathan@melbabuildinggroup.com.au
PO Box 109, Montmorency VIC 3094