JOSEPH BANOUB
Stafford at dusk: the three-storey home stepping down its rock-shelf site above Seven Mile Beach, Gerroa
Stafford, Gerroa · HIA NSW Home of the Year 2025Based in Sydney

From approval
to handover.

I'm Joseph Banoub, Design Team Manager at Futureflip, a design-and-construct builder. Six years in high-end NSW homes, now carried past approval into procurement, programme and site, through to handover.

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The record so far

26
residential projects in the register, across 12 NSW council areas.
$53M
in recorded contract value over 13 projects, from $1.8M to $13M each.
16
projects supported through construction, 11 of them through occupation certificate, defects and handover.
10
under construction right now.
15
concurrent CDC, DA and CC packages at peak, in my volume years at Gen One Sydney.

After the contract is signed

Cert IV in Building and Construction (CPC40120), completing 2027 · Procore (working knowledge) · Excel · NSW White Card · NSW driver licence

Case studies

Design visualisation of Botanic: a tiered home stepping down a steep Mosman site, with curved balconies over a basement garage
Design visualisation of Botanic's courtyard pool beside a curved, timber-screened white house

BOTANIC

Rebuilt approval and Sydney Water Major Works · in construction · visualisations

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Across the pipeline

My involvement varies from job to job. The figure on the right is how many of the 26 projects in the register I worked on at each stage.

Before contract

Feasibility and due diligence
14
Concept design
14

Approval

Planning and approvals: DA, CDC, Section 4.55
25
Consultant coordination
25

Build

Construction documentation
23
Construction phase services
16
Every stage, feasibility to construction6

Project register

Every project, with its contract value where one is recorded.

Showing 26 projects · $53M recorded

Before construction

  • White St

    Northern Beaches · CDC · Dual Occupancy

    Corner-site CDC dual occupancy for a developer, with both homes addressed from the quieter side street and landscaping as an acoustic buffer. Approved.

    Value not recorded
  • Drummoyne

    Drummoyne · DA · New Home

    Three-storey home with harbour views. The elevated pool was the key planning issue, worked through with the town planner. In submission.

    Value not recorded

In construction

  • Wallaby Close

    Ewingsdale · DA · New Home

    Wellness retreat near Byron Bay. Building-envelope variations negotiated with Council for a corner site with two street frontages.

    Value not recorded
  • Spring Hill

    Wongawilly · DA · New Home

    Single-storey home on a steep, environmentally sensitive site. Approval coordinated across Council, planners, geotechnical and structural engineers.

    Value not recorded
  • Botanic

    Mosman · DA · New Home

    $4,140,000
  • Halls Road

    Jerrara · DA · Home + Secondary

    $7,000,000
  • Rangers Retreat

    Frenchs Forest · DA · Dual Occupancy

    Dual occupancy approved under the new Low and Mid-Rise Housing reforms, working with Council before the supporting controls were finalised.

    $2,900,000
  • Trevelyan

    Botany · DA · Dual Occupancy

    Duplex that broke from the area's usual subdivision pattern, approved after extended work with town planners and Council.

    $3,327,000
  • Renfrew

    Werri Beach · DA · New Home

    South Coast holiday home and short-stay rental. Extensive glazing balanced against thermal performance through orientation, shading and the building envelope.

    Value not recorded
  • Elizabeth

    Vincentia · DA · New Home

    Multi-generational holiday home on Jervis Bay. Approval worked around a Council-managed beach and stormwater discharge across Council land.

    Value not recorded
  • Sturt

    Bulgary · DA · New Home

    Value not recorded
  • Berry

    Berry · DA · New Home

    Rural home for two families on a bushfire-prone corner site. Existing vegetation kept where it supported privacy and the bushfire response.

    Value not recorded

Completed 2026

  • Scenic Vista

    Ewingsdale · DA and CDC · New Home

    Approval deliberately split: the house by CDC and the tennis court by DA, each through its quickest pathway.

    Value not recorded
  • Paterson

    Byron Bay · CDC · Home + Secondary

    Value not recorded
  • Stafford North

    Gerroa · DA · Alterations & Additions

    Renovation of a beach house over Seven Mile Beach. Cantilevered rear floor plates coordinated with the structural engineer around the retained structure.

    Value not recorded
  • Nicholson

    Cronulla · CDC · Dual Occupancy

    Three-storey CDC duplex in Sutherland Shire, designed to newly relaxed floor-area controls.

    $4,207,000

Completed 2025

  • Belgrave Esplanade

    Sylvania · DA · New Home

    $2,845,000
  • Sharwood

    Gerringong · DA · New Home

    Accommodation residence above Werri Beach. An elevated pool about 11 m above ground, resolved with the structural engineer and certifier.

    $2,678,000
  • Woodland

    Thirroul · DA · New Home

    $2,111,500
  • Windsor

    Matraville · CDC · Dual Occupancy

    $2,350,000
  • Banks at Byron

    Byron Bay · DA · Dual Occupancy

    Value not recorded
  • Bunker Byron

    Byron Bay · DA · Dual Occupancy

    Value not recorded
  • Stafford

    Gerroa · DA · New Home

    $13,000,000
  • Belinda

    Gerringong · DA · Dual Occupancy

    $2,705,000

Completed 2024

  • Andrews Avenue

    Bondi · DA · Dual Occupancy

    $3,960,000
  • Bay Street

    Botany · DA · Dual Occupancy

    $1,788,000

Values are construction contract values.

Joseph Banoub

A note from me

I studied architecture at UTS, then spent my first years at Gen One Sydney running up to fifteen CDC, DA and CC packages at a time for duplexes and custom homes. Volume taught me how every stage sets up the next one.

At Futureflip I lead a team of five designers inside a design-and-construct builder, so my work doesn't stop at approval. Much of my week is spent after the contract is signed: comparing trade quotes with our contracts administrator, procuring specialist products, running programmes, coordinating inspections and answering the questions that come back from site.

The projects I'm proudest of were problems before they were buildings: a rooftop that couldn't be enclosed, a DA that had been refused, a basement ramp caught between a footpath and the service beneath it.

I'm completing a Certificate IV in Building and Construction (CPC40120) with Master Builders Australia, due July 2027, to put formal grounding under the contract and site side of the work.

Joseph Banoub

Design Team Manager, Futureflip
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