Our team of sector leaders are equipped with a deep working knowledge across key industry sectors.
For over 30 years our people have supported the public and private sectors in developing better ways to progress our cities, rural towns, and places, for the communities and purpose they serve.
Guided by a unique, end-to-end insight into what defines sustainable success at every step of urban change, our clients trust us to achieve quality solutions and innovative project outcomes.
Commercial
Ethos Urban collaborates with developers, landowners, and investors to create high-quality commercial projects, including CBD towers, suburban business precincts, and boutique offices. Leveraging extensive experience in concept design, market advice, design competition management, planning approvals, and stakeholder management, Ethos Urban consistently delivers successful outcomes in the evolving commercial sector.
Community infrastructure
Ethos Urban specialises in delivering quality community infrastructure, essential for creating livable cities and towns. Our projects include libraries, community centres, recreation and sports facilities, open space projects, and civic precincts. We provide expertise in community needs assessments, social and economic benefit assessments, concept design and place strategies, planning approvals, and community and stakeholder engagement strategies.
Education
Ethos Urban is committed to developing vital educational facilities, including universities, public and private schools, and childcare establishments. Our expertise encompasses campus masterplans, development approvals, site selection advice, social and economic benefit assessments, and stakeholder engagement strategies.
Government advisory
Ethos Urban collaborates with all levels of government—Local, State, and Federal—to rethink and reshape future cities. Our expertise includes strategic planning studies, policy advice, local plan and statutory instrument drafting, and stakeholder and community consultation strategies.
Health
Ethos Urban provides specialist advisory services to the health sector, aiding in the approval and delivery of various health-related facilities. With a proven track record in securing approvals for large-scale public and private health, wellbeing, and medical facilities, Ethos Urban ensures sustainable health infrastructure that will significantly shape the employment profile of Australian capital cities in the coming decades.
Industrial
Ethos Urban is committed to making cities and regions not just liveable but also workable. This commitment is about more than place-making – it’s also about connecting places, people, and products. For the past 30 years, we have been at the forefront of planning for Industrial and logistics projects. These projects are technically challenging, requiring specific governance protocols and specialist navigation through complex statutory approval pathways.
Precincts
Ethos Urban specialises in major urban renewal precincts. Our national team has extensive experience in urban planning, economics, design, engagement, strategy, and project management to create better urban experiences.
Renewable energy
Ethos Urban is a national leader in preparing comprehensive planning, economic, social strategy and community engagement advice to renewable energy developers, landowners and investors. Our guidance is tailored to help clients successfully navigate the complexities of the approval process for renewable energy and sustainability projects of all scales.
Residential
Ethos Urban excels in the residential sector, leveraging a multidisciplinary approach to navigate complex planning pathways and accommodate Australia's growing population. Our proven track record includes delivering high-quality, award-winning housing projects, from high-rise apartment buildings to greenfield release areas.
Our services encompass local planning strategies, site feasibility studies, planning approvals, architectural design competition management, economic and community facility needs assessments, and community and stakeholder engagement.
Retail
We work with developers, landowners, national retail brands, government agencies and investors across Australia. The scope of our work ranges from specialised shopping centres, and large format retail centres, through to main street environments, network planning and policy development.
Expertise includes retail planning approvals, due diligence, network planning, portfolio reviews, site selection advice, economic impact assessments, policy development, as well as concept design. We support this through the use of sophisticated data analysis and insights developed through our extensive experience in this sector.
Seniors living
The growing seniors living sector includes independent living, assisted living, and high care facilities. Ethos Urban meets the demand for these projects in both for-profit and not-for-profit sectors. Our services cover market and demographic advice, site selection, due diligence, planning approvals, and community needs assessments. We guide clients through site acquisition, strategic planning, statutory advice, urban design, social strategy, community engagement, visual impact assessments, and CPTED assessments.
Transport
Ethos Urban is engaged in various capital city transport infrastructure and transit-oriented development projects, including heavy rail, metro rail systems, light rail, ports, and airport developments.
Our expertise encompasses strategic environmental assessments of major transport corridors, preparing planning approvals documentation, urban design, and stakeholder engagement for both precinct-scale and individual development-scale transit-oriented projects.
