Expertise

UJA have expertise across a range of Architectural design services

URAKAWA JENKINS ARCHITECTURE INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT SYSTEM POLICY

UJA is dedicated to providing superior professional services.

Please download a copy of our IMS Policy for more details.


SECTORS

  • Design of people centred public infrastructure for parks and towns 

  • Open space facilities design including sporting fields, parks, road sides

  • Residential development models including traditional apartments, new generation boarding houses and affordable housing projects 

  • Masterplanning large sites and public facilities with a focus on future needs and implementation

  • Fine grain urban design strategies for town centres or precincts undergoing change

  • Inclusive and universally accessible public environments by re-purposing existing or new builds 

  • Building template guidelines for repeat projects requiring a consistent built language

  • Design for renewal of existing facilities where they fall below current expectations

  • Warehousing, laboratories and close temperature-controlled facilities

  • Heritage buildings and precincts

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INCEPTION

  • Feasibility studies, yield analysis, zoning proposals, land use and spatial studies assessing development potential and viability 

  • Conceptual design of public spaces and buildings – whether it is preparing a bid, securing grant funding or delivering strategic direction for future possibilities

  • Opportunities and constraints analysis

  • Risk analysis in relation to development and building

  • Communities engagement 

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DELIVERABLES

  • Co ordinating a team for submission of a Development Application to local council or a Review of Environmental Factors

  • Design intent documents for projects with fast track requirements and design-and-construct delivery

  • Detailed design, Architectural specification and documentation for tender and construction to bring concepts into reality with economic and ecological costs considered

  • Engaging with stakeholders to better understand how to meet expectations within the allocated funding

  • Community Engagement

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COMPLETION

  • Inspection of works under construction and associated reporting 

  • Post occupancy engagement to review the first year’s building operation

  • Expert witness for building design related matters

  • Administration of building contracts


Your project may also benefit from the expertise of a specialist.  We regularly team up with sub consultants experienced in the following:-

structural engineering, services engineering, quantity surveying, planning, recreation planning, landscaping, horticulture, certification, building, equitable access, compliance, furniture and craft, ecology, archaeology, heritage, wayfinding 


INSURANCE AND ACCREDITATIONS

  • Martin Urakawa is NSW Registered Architect #6776 and Zoe Jenkins is NSW Registered Architect #7580.

  • +A members of The Australian Institute of Architects (AIA)

  • We are bound by the NSW Architects Code of Professional Conduct 2017

  • $10 million in public liability insurance & $20 million in Professional Indemnity

  • UJA works in major cities and country side locations.


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