Our professional experience is in the following fields:

• Master Planning of Urban and Resort Projects

• Civil Engineering for Waterways, Urban Development and Urban Infrastructure

• Structural Engineering of Building Projects

• Environmental Planning and Engineering

• Project Co-ordination of Consultancy Teams and Contract Construction

• Strata Title Project Management Services

Burchill VDM have had long and intensive involvement in the concept planning and implementation of many major lifestyle residential and resort projects.

In particular our organisation has a strong background of participation in regional growth strategy and tourism planning, and special technology in animated computer imagery for built environments in broad hectare projects.

We have developed a specific planning management program formulated and refined through 20 years of experience to incorporate site, regional and market factors into the synthesis of a highest and best use strategy for each project. This calls for the input of credible research advice of a market or commercial nature from companies which have real expertise and local knowledge in these areas.

Projects such as Rainbow Harbour in Cairns, Australia; Gulf Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand; Serpong satellite city in Jakarta, Indonesia; and the Johor Bahru CBD redevelopment, Malaysia; are large by world standards and require research of their critical relationships with international, national and regional economies, international travel trends and large real estate market catchments.

One of our specialisations lies in the ability to take a wide overview of the strategic risk management issues involved, in co-operation with each of the very important specialist consultants and the owner's management executives.

Recognition of our expertise in this area is indicated by the many times that our principals have been invited to speak at international seminars, as illustrated by our involvement in major conferences in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Jakarta and Tokyo.

We are experienced in working co-operatively, harmoniously and effectively within project teams which include project managers, planners, architects, landscape architects, engineers and other technical specialists, market and sales specialists, etc, plus in some cases contractors and builders.

The integrity and value of our planning is derived from an in-house team approach that tempers creative and innovative urban and resort planning with strong in-house technical/engineering capabilities and an acute commercial appreciation of the need for risk management.

We have witnessed a common pattern for ill-prepared major long-term projects: Excitement - Euphoria - Disillusionment - Search for the Guilty - Punishment of the Innocent. Our determination is to be involved only with the best projects and clients, where prospects for this pattern are least likely and where the opportunity exists for us to provide professional services for a successful development on an on-going long-term basis.