OUR PRACTICE
AWARDS
Willooughby City Council Heritage Award 2010
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Parramata City Council Heritage Awards 2013
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Highly Commented
Naremburn Cammeray Anglican ChurcH
Heritage Award
University of New England 211 Church St Parramatta
SERVICES
MCA Architects is a multi-disciplinary firm specialising the following sectors:
MEDICAL CENTRES
UNIVERSITY & TERTIARY EDUCATION
PRIMARY & SECOND EDUCATION
CHUCHES & RELIGIOUS ARCHITECTURE
SINGLE & MULTI RESIDENTIAL
INSTITUTIONS
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Churches and Religious Architecture
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Primary and Secondary Education
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Universities and Tertiary Education
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Laboratories (including PC-certified Labs and specialist consultation)
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Institutions
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Medical Centres
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Residential (single dwelling and medium density apartments)
Our firm offers a total consulting service including:
MASTERPLANNING
Site investigation, stakeholder engagement, and Church mission/strategy analysis to produce strategic plans for staged or long-term development.
DOCUMENTATION FOR APPROVAL
Building approval pathway establishment, meetings, submissions, and response to requirements.
CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION
Project tendering, contract administration, cost, quality, and timeline control through to client occupation.
DESIGN
Concept design options and design development that respond to the functional brief and budget.
BUSINESS CASE & PROMOTION
Concept design options and design development that respond to the functional brief and budget.
CONSULTANT ENGAGEMENT
CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTATION
Concept design options and design development that respond to the functional brief and budget.
Concept design options and design development that respond to the functional brief and budget.
HERITAGE
We are Heritage Architects with NSW Heritage Council, successfully completing many sensitive projects on Heritage-listed buildings, and properties in Conservation Areas. We provide:
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Heritage advice and assessment
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Heritage Impact Statements
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Consultation with government authorities
MAIN CLIENTS
QUALITY CONTROL
The practice has been externally audited and certified to AS/NZS ISO 9001:2015, ISO 45001:2018, and ISO 14001:2016.
MCA maintain a rigorous policy of quality assurance to ensure the highest quality of documentation and are experienced in providing a total coordinated consultant team for all disciplines and expert consultants.
MCA Architects are committed to environmentally sustainable buildings, combining passive design principles, environmentally friendly or recycled building materials, and active energy-offset systems. Through our certified EMS, we working our way towards designing carbon neutral building developments.
We take OH&S in our workplace and construction project seriously. We engage in detailed Safety in Design reviews to ensure the design proposals and construction methodology consider the impacts on workers, end users, neighbours, general public, and wider environmental impacts.
"MCA team managed the university stakeholders consultation process well. MCA have undertaken multiple projects for Macquarie University across a diverse range of projects from teaching space to medical facilities and Labs. That they continue to be engaged on future projects is testament to their professionalism."
Macquarie University Project Manager