Project Management Firm Sydney
The Project Management Firm in Sydney That Developers Call When the Numbers Don't Add Up.
Submit your site details and get a clear picture of what your development can achieve, what it will cost, and what to do next.
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Know whether your site stacks up before committing a single dollar
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Identify up to $3M in design savings before the DA is lodged
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Turn a fragmented consultant team into one coordinated project delivery process
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Get 15+ years of Sydney development delivery experience on your specific project
No obligation 30 minute introductory call.
$580M+
In built form delivered across Sydney
$5M
From Zero profit, turning 21 apartments into 28.
$800K DA.
Comparable firms charged $2M to $3M.
Trusted by Sydney's leading developers and design consultants
This is not just how development works.
This is what happens when there is no one coordinating the whole process on your side, from the beginning, before the decisions that define your return are already locked in.
By the time most project management companies get called in, the decisions that determine whether the development makes money have already been made. That is the problem APM Services is built to solve.
If you've done the numbers, but something still doesn't add up, you're not imagining it.
You ran a feasibility. The numbers worked. But there is a feeling you cannot shake that you are missing something, and you do not know what.
Meanwhile, you’ve got consultants billing you from every direction and none of them seem to be talking to each other. You are the one on the phone working out why the engineer has not seen the architect's latest drawings. That is not what you signed up for. You did not pay this much to become a project manager.
The architect keeps evolving the design. Every iteration is better and more expensive. You keep asking what it is doing to your build cost. You keep getting non-answers.
The DA is sitting with council. Nitpicking on dumb stuff while your holding costs run every single day.
This is for you if...
You have a site and you are not certain the numbers stack up before you commit
You are in the design or DA phase and costs are moving without a clear strategy behind them
You have multiple consultants engaged but no one coordinating the project as a whole
You have been told your project is not viable and want a second opinion from a delivery-focused perspective
You want complete clarity on what your site can achieve before spending another dollar finding out the hard way
What changes when the right project management consultancy gets involved at the right time
Most project management consulting firms get called in at construction. By then, the decisions that determine whether a development makes money have already been locked in. The design costs too much to build. The consultant fees have blown out because nobody was coordinating them. The DA came through but the numbers no longer stack up.
APM Services operates differently. We provide client-side development management from the moment a site is identified.
That means development feasibility is stress-tested before capital is committed. Design management keeps the building buildable and affordable before the DA is lodged. And the entire project lifecycle, from project planning through to construction management and handover, is run by one team whose only interest is your outcome.
One team. One point of accountability. From the first feasibility to final handover.
What you get when you engage APM Services
Your numbers are validated before you commit
We run a rigorous development feasibility that accounts for every cost most developers miss. Our feasibility process has turned zero-profit sites into returns exceeding $5 million.
Your design stays buildable and affordable
An architect's job is to design a great building. It is not to protect your budget. We make sure the design can be built and afforded. One facade redesign alone can represent a two-million-dollar saving.
More yield from the same site
We redesign development schemes to maximise what a site can deliver within existing planning controls and building footprints. You get a project worth building rather than one that barely justifies the risk you are taking.
$580M delivered across Sydney's hardest sites
We've delivered over $580 million in built form. Every project advisory decision, every feasibility review, and every risk management call we make is informed by experience. You get it applied directly to your project.
Someone on your side
We act solely on the client's behalf across the entire project lifecycle to protect your position. Our interests are completely aligned with your outcome.
One Team. Full Accountability.
One senior-led team manages the entire project lifecycle, from development feasibility through DA, procurement, construction management, and project completion. When challenges arise, they are our problem to resolve, not yours to absorb.
The difference between a profitable development and a costly lesson is rarely luck. It is process. Project success at this level is not accidental. It is the result of having the right team involved before the decisions that define the outcome are already made.
CASE STUDY — THE WAGGA PROJECT
What early project management involvement looks like
A developer came to APM with a site. The design was already drawn up. Twenty-one apartments. The feasibility was showing zero profit.
We ran a detailed feasibility. Confirmed the zero. Then redesigned the scheme within the same building footprint and got twenty-eight apartments on the plan.
Zero profit. Redesigned. $5 million return.
The project is due to commence construction. The developer is still on the same site. Nothing changed except the scheme, the yield, and the outcome.
That is the difference between engaging a project management firm at inception versus at construction. A single decision, made before capital was committed, changed the entire outcome of the development.
This is also why we did a DA for $800,000 on a project where comparable project management consulting firms were charging two to three million for similar-sized buildings. We know what consultants should cost because we pay them ourselves.
HOW IT WORKS
Three steps to complete clarity on your project
Step 1: Tell Us About Your Project
Complete the consultation form with your site details, your intent, and where you currently are in the development cycle. The form is designed to provide the context we need to make the consultation useful, beyond the introductory stage. The more specific you are, the more we can prepare.
Step 2: We Review Before We Meet
Simon Kassis reviews every submission personally before confirming a time. He does not show up unprepared. With over $580 million in built form delivered across Sydney's most complex sites, he arrives with a clear perspective on your specific situation and the questions that matter.
Step 3: You Leave with a Clear Path Forward
In the consultation, we cover what your site can realistically achieve, what a credible feasibility looks like, and what the path forward involves. You leave with a clear view of your options, realistic numbers, and no obligation to proceed.
This conversation could change your entire project outcome
We turned a zero-profit 21-apartment site into a 28-apartment project, returning $5 million. It started with a feasibility and a willingness to look at the problem differently.
Project Management Services
What sets APM Services apart
Development Feasibility
We analyse site controls, model development scenarios, and pressure-test every assumption before capital is committed. You get a real number, not a hopeful one.
Design Management
An architect's brief is to realise a vision. Ours is to ensure the vision is commercially viable and buildable. From project brief preparation through to DA coordination, APM manages the full design team.
Superintendent Services
APM oversees the contract administration on behalf of the developer. APM administers contracts proactively, building the file in real time, maintaining watertight payment schedules, and acting on the early warning signs that most project managers explain away after the fact.
Procurement Strategy
Appointing the wrong builder is one of the most expensive decisions a developer can make. We work with a vetted network of project partners across Sydney's builder market, with contract management structured from day one to protect the client's commercial position.
Programme and Risk Management
APM maintains active project oversight and control throughout delivery, identifying risk early and managing it before it compounds into a claim, a delay, or a variation.
Project Advisory and Due Diligence
APM provides independent feasibility reviews, design due diligence, and project assessments for developers at any stage who want a clear-eyed view from a team with genuine delivery experience on both sides of the contract.
About Us
Who you'll work with
Simon Kassis is the Managing Director of APM Services and has delivered over $580 million in built form across Sydney's most complex development sites.
His career began at Built as a contracts administrator, moved to Toga where he led the engineering team on a $100 million, 194-key hotel at 80 George Street, on a 500 sqm CBD site with light rail construction running alongside it, and then to Generate as a client-side representative on projects including 333 Kent Street and the DA for Canva's Sydney headquarters.
Project management excellence, in our view, starts well before a builder is appointed. It starts before an architect is engaged. It starts the moment a site is identified.
Frequently Asked Questions
The questions every developer asks us before engaging
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A project management firm manages the process. A client-side consultancy represents your interests within that process.
We cover the full range of project management roles on your behalf, from superintendent and contract administrator through to design manager and programme management.
We maintain project oversight with one objective: to protect your investment and project outcomes.
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This is the right question to ask, and we respect that you are asking it. Our development activity runs under a completely separate entity. Client project information has never informed our acquisition activity, and we are happy to put that in writing before the consultation. The reason we are upfront about our development work is that it is exactly what makes our feasibility modelling credible. We know what sites cost, what builds cost, and what consultants should cost because we have had our own money on the line. That experience is your advantage, not your risk.
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Less often than you think. We get brought in at different stages on every project. The earlier the better, but a client-side project management firm engaged after DA still recovers significantly more in cost and yield than no engagement at all. Tell us where you are and we will tell you honestly what we can do from there. If there is nothing meaningful we can add at your current stage, we will say so.
We regularly provide independent feasibility reviews, design due diligence, and project assessments for developers who want a delivery-focused second opinion mid-stream. If the numbers on your project do not feel right, they probably are not. A fresh set of eyes from a project management consultancy that develops with its own capital tends to find things others have missed.
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We did a DA for $800,000 on a project where comparable firms charged two to three million. We redesigned a development showing zero profit into one returning five million dollars. We have had to tell clients their site is not viable and walked away from the fee rather than take them through a process that would not work.
Every engagement at APM Services is led personally by Simon Kassis. There is no junior team managing your project. You'll work directly with senior professionals.
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Tell us as much detail as you have via our online submission. Site address, any planning overlays you are aware of, where you are in the development cycle, what outcome you are trying to achieve, and ideally all key decision-makers on the call. The more you provide on the form, the more value we can give you in the initial consultation.
The initial consultation is complimentary. We use the time to understand your project, review your site, and give you a clear picture of what is achievable. There is no obligation to proceed.
We have helped clients through adjudication, redesigns and complete re-baselines. The situation does not have to be as far gone as you think before we can turn it around.
Your site has potential. Find out exactly how much.
APM Services is the project management company Sydney's private developers call when they are serious about getting the outcome right, from the first site analysis through to final handover.
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Feasibility built around the costs most developers forget: stamp duty, holding costs, delays, and consultant fees
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Redesigned a 21-apartment scheme to 28 within the same footprint and turned zero profit into $5 million
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Delivered a DA for $800K on a project where similar buildings were costing clients $2M to $3M
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$580M in built form across Sydney's most complex sites informing every number we put in front of you
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