Dualcon is a registered commercial builder working across metropolitan Melbourne. We build, renovate and refurbish commercial property — offices, clinics, studios, shops and hospitality venues — as the licensed builder on the contract, carrying the construction risk ourselves rather than passing it to a subcontractor.
Director Kevin Averill is a registered building practitioner with twenty years in the industry — apprentice carpenter, site manager, project manager — and has held his commercial builder’s licence for the past ten years. Registered with the Victorian Building Authority, now the Building and Plumbing Commission.
Registered Building Practitioner
Small and mid-size commercial building, done properly
Dualcon specialises in small and mid-size commercial building: single-tenancy refurbishments, clinic builds, studio rollouts, floor upgrades, base-building fit-outs and structural alterations.
Each project is delivered under one contract with one registered builder accountable for the complete scope.
Commercial construction services
New commercial builds and base-building works. Structural alterations, steel fabrication, cladding systems, shopfronts and external works.
Design and construct. Concept, working drawings, structural documentation and construction under a single contract — or we build from your architect’s documentation and tell you early what will and will not get a permit.
Permits, approvals and compliance. Building permits, council and town planning applications, owners corporation and landlord consent, and DDA accessibility compliance.
Project management. One site supervisor, one program, all trades sequenced and coordinated, staged around your trading hours where you need to stay open.
Interior fit-out delivery. Partitioning, glass partitions, ceilings, flooring, electrical, data, plumbing, joinery and finishes. → Fit Out Contractors Melbourne
De-fit, strip-out and make good. Returning a tenancy to base building condition at end of lease, documented against the make-good clause.
Commercial renovation and refurbishment
Renovating an occupied commercial building is a different job to building an empty one. The constraints are the tenants still working in it, the trading hours you cannot interrupt, the base building services you have to work around, and a building manager with rules about noise, access and after-hours work.
We refurbish offices, clinics, retail tenancies and hospitality venues in stages so the business keeps operating, running noisy and dusty trades after hours or over weekends. That includes floor-by-floor upgrades, amenities and end-of-trip refurbishment, lobby and common-area upgrades, and full internal reconfiguration.
For landlords, agents and property managers
A share of our work comes through the people who manage the building rather than the business moving into it.
Speculative fit-outs to make a vacant tenancy leasable.
Tenant works delivered against an agreed landlord contribution, with the documentation needed before that contribution is released.
Make good and reinstatement priced against the actual lease clause.
Building upgrades, lobby works and compliance rectification across a portfolio.
Managing a tenancy, a portfolio or a rollout? Call 0421 858 960.
Recent commercial projects
CorePlus — franchised studio rollout, Melbourne-wide. More than ten allied-health and gym studios delivered to a fixed brand specification, including Balwyn, Blackburn, Mitcham and North Melbourne. Repeatable delivery across sites to a consistent standard.
Better Rehab — NDIS and allied health, multiple Melbourne sites. More than ten office fit-outs plus full re-branding works across a growing national network.
Hatch Quarter — Docklands. Hot desk office fit-out built for flexible occupancy and shared amenity.
Where we build
Across metropolitan Melbourne and into Geelong and the Mornington Peninsula — including Melbourne CBD, Docklands, Southbank, Richmond, South Melbourne, Port Melbourne, St Kilda, Toorak, Malvern, Camberwell, Balwyn, Blackburn, Mitcham, Northcote, Ivanhoe, Greensborough, Moorabbin, Cheltenham, Chadstone, Dandenong, Cranbourne, Pakenham, Craigieburn, Mornington and Geelong.
Frequently asked questions
What is commercial construction?
Building work on property used for business rather than housing — offices, shops, clinics, studios, hospitality venues, warehouses. In Victoria it must be carried out by a builder registered in the appropriate commercial class, which is a different registration to a domestic builder’s.
Are you registered, and in what class?
Yes. Dualcon is led by a registered building practitioner holding a commercial builder’s licence, registered with the BPC (formerly the VBA).
What size projects do you take?
From single-office refurbishments under $10,000 through to full base-building fit-outs and structural works.
Do you handle permits and approvals?
Yes. Building permits, council and town planning applications, landlord and owners corporation consent and accessibility compliance are all handled by us.
Can you work in an occupied building?
Yes, and most of our refurbishment work is exactly that. We stage the job zone by zone and run noisy trades outside trading hours.
What happens at handover?
Defect walk-through, final clean, workmanship warranty, full handover manual and a maintenance schedule. We build to exceed the Guide to Standards and Tolerances rather than merely meet it.
Do you tender?
Yes. We tender to private clients, landlords, project managers and government and council panels.
Tell us the address, the scope and the timeframe. We will come and look at it, tell you what it will cost, and tell you honestly if it is not worth doing.
Relevant Dualcon projects
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