The architects are highly creative, and their work is driven by producing the best possible designs for our clients, while InForm provides buildability, compliance, and pricing advice to ensure the process is efficient and delivered within budget. The relationship is elevated when we can inspire and challenge each other, and for over a decade, the unique partnership between InForm and Pleysier Perkins has been doing just that.

“Our relationship with Pleysier Perkins spans over 10 years now, and in that time, we’ve put an enormous amount of work into ensuring the relationship is healthy and that all team members from either side treat one another with respect,” InForm Director Cameron McKimm says. “They’re well supported by a great leader in Simon Perkins, who protects them by making them feel safe to be creative and to be themselves.”

In conversations exploring the central idea of ‘healthy tension’, mutual respect was a common thread. Many in both Pleysier Perkins and InForm camps touched on the wealth of knowledge each team possessed, as well as the passion and dedication that the other team brought to a project. InForm’s estimating manager, Adam Davy, is one of those people. “Our clients are extremely lucky to have the resources of the Pleysier Perkins team. They pour over every last detail – as if it was their own home – which results in a building that will stand the test of time,” Adam says. “Because of this level of care and consideration, our clients will have a home that makes them smile every day and that they will love forever.”

InForm’s building manager Tom Skewes experienced a similar feeling of gratification at a recent site inspection. “The facade at our Caulfield North project required six months of meetings, design considerations, details, and a high level of communication,” Tom recalls. “The shared challenges and experience with the design team resulted in a great feeling of achievement at the pre-handover inspection, and to meet client expectations while creating an amazing result is why we do what we do.”

These site inspections have become critical to how the collective teams work and evolve. Not only is the exercise useful, but as Nicole and Tom have already recounted, it’s the most rewarding part of the job for most staff members. “It’s not only an important tradition that brings the PP and InForm teams together to review the results of our collective endeavours, but it’s also a critical opportunity to analyse our work, having spent hours reviewing abstract sketches, CAD details and 3D models,” Simon adds.

Even after the hours that go into sketching, imagining and realising these built forms, experiencing a space in person for the first time feels otherworldly. Not only has the designer’s vision come to life, but they also get to share the experience with their colleagues, having worked on each painstaking detail together. For Simon, reflecting on the process is a reminder of the journey the team goes on with each client. “Most importantly, projects are always celebrated when we come together; it’s an important milestone in an ongoing journey,” he finishes. “It is about the journey, not the destination.”