The Site Foreman

is the director  who prior to The Site Foreman ran a residential construction company for approximatly 15 yrs in Sydney. The company specialised in custom built new homes and major alterations and additions.

Over the last 20 yrs he has personally completed a number of small residential developments in the Sydney metropolitan area. This experience has lead to an expertise in cost efficient and marketable designs.He has also developed a close working relationship with many councils potentially eliminating unnecessary delays in the approval process.

Mark Dowsley  is a co-director of the company. Mark is an electrician by trade who has designed and managed building alterations and renovations for over thirty years.

Mark's expertise is utilising his sound knowledge of construction costs and methodology to insure that the customer's needs are fullfilled in the building contract. Quite often clients come to us with plans already approved and once the tender process is complete Mark has the difficult task of "squeezing" a square peg into a round hole. In other words analysing what it is the client desires and modifying the design to suit their budget.

Mark builds a rapport with the tradesmen on the job, speaks the same language, has them wanting to please the customer, bring to fruition the customer's dreams. Mark knows the importance of every detail of the proposed job be written down and accepted by client, builder and sub- contractors. Once the work is begun, there are to be no unpleasant surprises for the client, no extra expenses, no decisions to be made with inadequate preparation or time.

Having The Site Foreman as project manager has the great advantage, for many clients, that the client does not need to direct the various tradesmen. The Site Foreman pays the tradesmen weekly, thus making life easier for them and helping towards a site on which all co-operate in satisfying the client. 

Phillip R. Welsh: BSc., B Archttns., Reg Ch Arch., CAD Cert., Arch Reg no 4125.

Phillip has been in practice since 1970 with Government Departments, private practices, on his own account and with The Site Foreman since 2006. He is experienced in residential, commercial, industrial, medium density development, retirement villages and aged care accomodation, dual occupancy, alterations and additions, health care and Aborigine housing. As a project architect, Phillip has long experience in client consultation, preparation of sketch plans and presentation. The Site Foreman design custom design, new homes plus alterations and additions.

Rafic Rahme: Ba Eng (MAST) Structural and hydraulic engineer, The Site Foreman.

Rafic has a Masters and Bachelor in Civil Engineering. He has been working in the industry since 1995. His main duties are structural and hydraulic design with concrete, steel and timber in medium density and high rise.

Our inhouse engineer is qualified in both structural and hydraulic. Whilst normally you would need to employ the services of two engineers, one for structural and one for hydraulics, this is not needed at The Site Foreman. For example; If you need a retaining wall built you would need the help of a structural engineer to work out how to hold the wall up and a hydraulic engineer to work out the drainage. They are two completely different jobs. Using The Site Foreman we are designing the wall to accomplish the design for both of the issues. Therefore saving a substantial amount on engineering fees.