Royal Edward Victualling Yard · Pyrmont · MBA award 1991
Icon Buildings & Maintenance · Sydney Metro
Waterproofing, concrete, façade and structural repairs for strata owners corporations, consulting engineers and government. Registered Class 2 Building Practitioner.
What we do
We repair and rectify apartment buildings, heritage buildings and homes across Sydney Metro, working to the engineer's specification with residents at home.
Leaking balconies, podiums and roof terraces, stripped back and rebuilt.
Concrete cancer treated at the cause, not patched over.
Cracked, leaking and weathered walls repaired to match the original.
Movement and settlement fixed to the engineer's design.
Combustible cladding removed and replaced on residential buildings.
The roof and rainwater work that keeps a building dry.
Two Master Builders awards for restoring historic buildings.
Repairs for owners corporations, and refurbishments for government.
From heritage to remedial
We learned our trade restoring heritage buildings for NSW Public Works: old materials, hidden defects, and buildings that stay in use while you work on them.
Every remedial job gets the same care, from a heritage façade to a residential flat building. We find out how the building was made, trace the failure to its cause, and repair it so the repair lasts.
Before we restored Goulburn Post Office or the Victualling Yard, we worked out how each was built and why it was failing. On remedial work we do the same alongside the engineer, who relies on our experience to decide how best to repair it.
Post offices, TAFE colleges and railway stations stayed open while we restored them. On strata buildings residents stay at home: we stage the work, protect common areas and keep access clear.
Our restoration work earned two Master Builders awards. The same eye goes into every repair, with brick, render and colour matched to the original, as at heritage-listed 24 Belmore Road, Burwood.
Decades as a panel builder for NSW Public Works, more than ten years on the NSW Trustee & Guardian panel, and a registered Class 2 Building Practitioner. Every job is documented to the standard government clients expect.
Who we work for
Remedial and rectification work on residential flat buildings, carried out with residents at home. Each stage is planned around access, common areas and the people living there.
We build to the engineer's specification and detail, and bring a builder's view of the existing fabric to the repair method. Recent work with TBES Engineers and Pi Consulting.
An approved panel builder for NSW Trustee & Guardian for more than ten years, following decades of panel work for NSW Public Works: two generations of government panel work.
Clients
NSW Trustee & Guardian
TAFE NSW
Civium
Waratah Strata Management
Strata Title Management
TSM Strata
PICA Group
Netstrata
Bright & Duggan
StrataHQ
Jamesons Strata Management
Whelan Property Group
Arthur James
ACE Body Corporate ManagementRecent remedial projects
We know what it's like to have scaffolding outside your window and trades in the hallway. For 50 years we've planned our work around the people living in the building, staging it carefully, protecting common areas and keeping access clear.
Double Bay
A five-storey 1990s apartment building with a penthouse and rooftop pool. The podium, pool surrounds and top-floor balconies had failed. We replaced the waterproofing with a FATRA PVC membrane system and new insulation, built the engineer's balcony detail, laid a new pedestal tiling system and rebuilt the planter boxes.
Residents stayed in; materials were craned up to a cliff-top site above a main road.
St Ives
A 1990s three-storey retirement complex. The southern wall needed underpinning and the render and brickwork were cracking throughout. We have underpinned the wall, stitched and injected the cracks, repaired the render, re-waterproofed the balconies and repainted the exterior, all from outside and quietly, with residents at home.
Miranda
A 1990s four-storey face-brick building where every top-floor balcony, sliding door and window leaked. We re-waterproofed the balconies, installed new sliding doors and repaired the cavity flashings around the whole building, sequencing each unit quickly because tenants were living in them.
North Strathfield
A 44-unit, three-storey apartment complex where the top-floor balconies were failing. We stripped every balcony back to the slab, regraded it to drain away from the building, cut new scupper outlets through the balustrades, laid a new ARDEX membrane, re-tiled and rectified the roof and balcony drainage, with residents at home.
Chatswood
A full rooftop renewal on an occupied apartment building.
We are replacing the roof sheeting with new box gutters, sumps and roof ventilation, rebuilding the rooftop water-heater plant room, waterproofing the roof slabs and replacing the rooftop pergolas. Rooftop services come out and go back in around the works, and materials go up by crane.
Company overview
Heritage and public works
For decades our work was government and heritage buildings. It taught us to document everything, to work in buildings that stay open, and to repair historic fabric without damaging it.
Awards
Won two years running for the restoration of a historic building.
Excellence in Construction Award: restoration of a historic building. Sandstone, heritage brickwork and timber windows.
Excellence in Construction Award: restoration of a historic building.
Property development
Alongside remedial work we build new residential and commercial developments, several designed with our director, architect Alexander Housalas.
11 Crystal Street and 26 Tedman Parade, Sylvania
A dual-occupancy development in Sylvania: two homes on a corner site, each facing its own street, approved by CDC in 2022 and subdivided to Torrens title. Icon built both. It was one of our most challenging luxury developments to date, and very heavy on detailing.
Under construction · due December 2026
Erskineville
$3.8M. Architect Geoform, interiors by Tina Kosta Studio. Icon's own detailing includes the steel staircase, the skylight, the front awning, the rainheads and the BBQ area.
Residential flat building
North Wollongong
27 ocean-view apartments. $12.7M construction. Architect Tzannes and Associates.
Beachfront apartments
Gerrale Street, Cronulla
16 beachfront units and 2 luxury penthouses. $8.2M construction. Architects Peter Sarlos and Alexander Housalas.
Mixed use
Sylvania
Mixed-use commercial and residential. $6.5M. Architect Geoform. Icon's office is in this building.
Industrial
Kirrawee
A block of factory units. $3.5M.
Detail
Erskineville
The steel stair at Charles Street, detailed and built by Icon. The same attention goes into every remedial repair.
Track record
| Project | Value |
|---|---|
| Equinox, North Wollongong27 luxury units | $12.7M |
| Kalimna, Cronulla16 units and 2 luxury penthouses | $8.2M |
| Maroubra Road, Maroubra12 luxury units | $7.2M |
| Allawah34 units | $6.6M |
| 266 Princes Highway, SylvaniaMixed commercial and residential | $6.5M |
| Crystal Street, SylvaniaDual occupancy | $5.8M |
| Oberon Street, Coogee8 units | $4.4M |
| 53 Charles Street, ErskinevilleUnder construction, due December 2026 | $3.8M |
| 545–549 Princes Highway, KirraweeFactory units | $3.5M |
| Dudley Street, Coogee12 residential units | $3.2M |
| CaringbahFactory complex | $2.8M |
| Stacey Street, BankstownFactories | $2.8M |
| Taren PointFactory complex | $2.5M |
Eleven completed developments, over $60M in total, plus three under construction.
Our story
Icon Buildings & Maintenance began in heritage restoration, as a panel builder for NSW Public Works.
For decades most of our work was for the public sector: new platform structures at Sutherland, Sydenham and Ryde stations, refurbishments of more than 20 schools and post offices across NSW, and the TAFE buildings at Ultimo and East Sydney.
Today Icon is a second-generation company, based in Sydney Metro, and we also work in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast. Most of our work is remedial and rectification work for strata owners corporations, government and consulting engineers, alongside new residential development.
Director · Architectural consultant
Alexander trained as an architect at the University of Bath. He runs Icon's day-to-day operations and manages client relationships with government, engineers and strata managers.
Builder · Class 2 Building Practitioner
Nick has been building for 50 years. As a panel builder for NSW Public Works he restored heritage buildings for the state government, including Goulburn Post Office and the Royal Edward Victualling Yard.
Contact
Call or email Alexander directly. He would welcome the chance to meet, inspect and quote on any remedial work you have coming up.