Once a commercial interior is designed, someone has to price it, run the trades and hand over the space. For most offices, shops, clinics and venues in Melbourne that is a commercial fitout builder working from the designer's drawings.
This directory lists 13 builders with a Melbourne office whose own websites show commercial interior fitout work. Several also show projects built to outside designers' drawings. Treat it as a starting point for a tender list, not a recommendation.
FORJ publishes this directory. FORJ is an interior design studio, not a builder, so it is not listed. The builders are in alphabetical order, none has paid to appear, and each entry is based on the builder's own website as checked in October 2026. Confirm registration and current capability before you appoint anyone. One disclosure: Sam Fossati, who leads FORJ's interior design, was Design Manager at Canopy Fitouts until early 2025, and Canopy built the relevant experience projects shown on this site. Its entry is marked ‡.
Check the registration before anything else
Commercial building work in Victoria is regulated by the Building and Plumbing Commission. Its commercial builder classes include one limited to non-structural fit-out. That class covers the internal fitout of new or existing commercial buildings where the work needs a building permit. Structural fit-out has its own class.
The practitioner search shows a builder's registration class and any conditions. The Commission's own advice is worth repeating: "Do not rely only on advertising, business cards, quotes or what someone tells you."
Construct-only or design and construct?
The Victorian Government's procurement guidance puts the difference simply. Under construct-only, the client's team is responsible for the design and the contractor builds to it. Under design and construct, one contractor does both.
Several of the builders below say they can work either way. Others don't say, so ask. Before FORJ, I was Design Manager at a design and construct builder, so I have seen both routes from the inside: the difference shows up most when prices come in and someone has to decide what changes. If you would rather appoint one business for design and construction, our directory of commercial interior design and fitout companies lists design and construct firms alongside fitout contractors.
What I would ask before adding a builder to the tender list
- Have you built this kind of space, at this size, in the last two years? Can we see it?
- Who will be the site manager, and can we meet them before we sign?
- Will you price a lump sum against the drawings, with provisional sums listed separately?
- What do you need from the designer before you can price properly?
- How do you handle after-hours and noisy work in an occupied building?
- Which trades are your own people and which are subcontracted?
- Can we speak to a recent client, and to the designer on that job?
The last question tells me the most. A builder who works well with designers will offer that reference without hesitation, and the designer will tell you how clarifications and substitutions were handled once the job started.
Builders with a Melbourne office
Adept Construction
North Caulfield. Describes itself as the "trusted first choice of designers and architects". Projects on its site include Mr Hobson at Station Pier, Top Juice at Melbourne Central and Knox Orthopaedic Group in Wantirna. Says it was incorporated in 2001, and also builds homes and townhouses.
Worth a look if: you have a hospitality, food or medical fitout in a centre or precinct.
Axess Interiors
Melbourne. Fitout, furniture and joinery, with projects at Arts Centre Melbourne (bathrooms and boardroom), a breakout space in the Treasury Building and a Department of Education site in Kilsyth.
Worth a look if: you have a smaller government, cultural or institutional interior.
Buildcorp
South Yarra. A national builder that offers fitout on an integrated or non-integrated basis. It won 181 William Street for GPT through a tender with BVN as architect, and lists Corrs Chambers Westgarth in Melbourne. It won Master Builders Victoria's Excellence in Fitout award in the over $10 million category in 2026.
Worth a look if: you are tendering a large, multi-floor workplace fitout.
Canopy Fitouts ‡
St Kilda Road, Melbourne, with a second office in North Adelaide. A design and construct builder working across offices, shops, cafes, restaurants, bars and dental and medical clinics. Its design service can be engaged on its own, with a building quote as an optional later step. Projects on its site include Mirabella's head office, SBA Law, Guest Group in Keysborough and Bedford Road Dental.
Worth a look if: you want one business to design and build a small to mid-size office, venue or clinic. If you already have drawings, ask whether they will price them.
‡ Sam Fossati was Design Manager at Canopy until early 2025. FORJ's relevant experience projects were designed by Sam and built by Canopy.
Dualcon
Melbourne. Answers "yes" to building from your architect's design, and states a project range of $20,000 to $1 million. Office, retail, hospitality, medical, dental and gym work, including Hatch Quarter in Docklands and CorePlus in Mitcham.
Worth a look if: you have a small office, clinic or venue under $1 million.
FDC Construction & Fitout
Melbourne. In Victoria since 2008, with a fitout and refurbishment division. Projects include Ashurst at 80 Collins Street, two floors at 356 Collins Street and the Sacred Heart Building at Abbotsford Convent. Its site describes a design and construct approach.
Worth a look if: you have a CBD workplace or refurbishment; ask whether they will price construct-only.
Harris HMC
North Melbourne. Operating since 1984, with fitout and refurbishment work across government, education, health and aged care. Projects include two floors at 200 Victoria Street, The Bays Cancer Care Centre and Essendon Football Club's centre.
Worth a look if: you have a health, education or government interior.
MPA
99 King Street, Melbourne, with offices in Sydney and Brisbane. A workplace builder with 26 years behind it that describes its role as working with the broader project team. It built DLA Piper's three-level, 3,800 m² office at 80 Collins Street, with Hassell among the project partners.
Worth a look if: you have a large workplace, with your own designer and project manager already appointed.
O'Neill's Design & Construction
Docklands. Established in 2019. Its site says it supports construct-only delivery as well as design and construct. Work includes the lobby at 616 St Kilda Road, a spec suite at 717 Bourke Street and School House at Wesley Place.
Worth a look if: you have a lobby, spec suite or fitout in an occupied building.
Renascent
Melbourne office of a builder founded in Sydney in 1995. Its Melbourne project pages credit the outside designer: Gray Puksand at 555 Collins Street, Foolscap Studio on a Cremorne office, and WMK at 108 Power Street, Hawthorn.
Worth a look if: your designer is already appointed for a workplace or spec suite.
Schiavello Construction
Southbank. Was the fitout builder on Reece's Cremorne headquarters, designed by Futurespace, and on MEO Australia's floor at 500 Collins Street. Works across workplace, education, hotels, healthcare and hospitality. Part of the same group as Schiavello's furniture business.
Worth a look if: you have a multi-floor workplace drawn by your own designer.
Trust Projects
South Yarra. Retail, hospitality and corporate fitouts, including Baker Bleu in South Yarra and JSY and July at Chadstone.
Worth a look if: you have a boutique shop or hospitality fitout.
United Project Solutions
Brunswick East. Says it has completed more than 320 projects in Victoria since 2012, across health, government, hospitality and education. Work includes operating theatres at the Austin Hospital, Chargrill Charlie's stores in Camberwell, Elsternwick and Malvern, and Standing Room at Melbourne Central.
Worth a look if: you have a clinic, cafe or public-sector fitout.
Where FORJ fits
FORJ designs commercial interiors and prepares the design intent drawings a builder prices from. If you already have a builder, we work with them. If you need one, we can introduce builders from our network based on the project, location and budget. See commercial interior design in Melbourne.
Sources: each builder's own website, checked October 2026; Building and Plumbing Commission; Department of Treasury and Finance Victoria; Master Builders Victoria award pages.