Commercial
Access shapes a commercial fit out in Wollongong as much as the design does. Crown Street Mall is a pedestrian mall closed to vehicles through trading hours, a CBD tower suite means a goods lift and sign off from the building manager, and an industrial unit at Unanderra or Port Kembla may have the room but not the power where you need it. We build to shop drawings, prefabricate at our Huskisson workshop and deliver as finished modules, so the part of the job that happens inside your premises is short and predictable. Offices, retail, hospitality, clinics and front counters.
Builder Managed
Commercial Grade
On-Time Delivery
Minimal Disruption
Shopfitting is joinery with a trading deadline attached. Counters, display, back of house storage and the fixtures the fit out gets judged on, all built to shop drawings and finished before they leave the workshop. Where a space has to be loaded outside trading hours or carried in from a set down point, that access decides how big the largest piece can be, so we size the modules to the route we have walked rather than assuming a truck can back up to the door.
An office fit out is workstations, storage walls, a kitchenette, meeting room joinery and a reception counter, usually all wanted in the same fortnight. The joinery is normally the item the other trades are waiting on, so we take the programme from the site rather than from the workshop and slot in behind the electrician, the data cabler and the flooring contractor wherever the sequence needs it.
Retail joinery has to survive being handled all day and still look right at the end of the lease. Edges get knocked, shelves get reloaded and the counter takes the worst of it. We specify the substrate, the edging and the hardware for that rather than for a domestic cupboard, and we build in sections that can be replaced later without pulling the whole run apart.
Ashbrook is owned and run by a qualified builder with 15+ years on site, which counts for more on a commercial job than a residential one. A fit out is half a dozen trades wanting the same fortnight, and the joinery is usually the item everything else waits on. Working to shop drawings from a workshop in Huskisson means the cabinetry is finished and checked before it leaves, so your site time is install rather than manufacture.
The same commercial work across the Shoalhaven is on our commercial joinery page. Where the job is a front counter, our reception desks page goes into that in more detail, and our Wollongong joinery and cabinetry page lists everything we do in the Illawarra.
Shop drawings, a fixed install window, and one trade answering for the joinery.