Martin Place North & South

Martin Place North and South is a twin-tower commercial precinct in the heart of the Sydney CBD, built above the new Sydney Metro Martin Place station. The two towers close out together, and the finishing scope runs across both at once rather than through a single building.

An over-station development compresses fit-out, envelope and public-domain finishes into a live transport environment, which leaves little slack in the finishing programme. Across two towers the finishing work runs at volume and across many surfaces and substrates, and all of it converges on the same close-out window. As the buildings near completion, finished surfaces are exposed to following trades, and damage accumulates on exactly the finishes an inspector will look at first.

The challenge, then, was one of consistency and make-good under programme pressure: surface finishes and coated substrates across both towers had to reach a uniform standard before handover, and anything chipped, scratched or marked had to be brought back to that standard rather than left sitting on the defect register.

M&M delivered surface restoration and industrial coatings across both towers, under one contract, as one coordinated finishing scope — the same facade and surface rectification capability we carry across the Sydney CBD. Both are restore-in-place disciplines: the aim is to bring the existing finish back to standard rather than remove and replace it.

Surface restoration covers the items M&M's surface specialists document — chipped stone restoration, tile rectification and painting, scratched bathtub and sink restoration, and the rectification of scratched mirrors and scratched chrome. Each is treated in situ, so the damaged element is returned to a clean, consistent finish without the lead time and disruption of ordering and swapping in a replacement.

The industrial coatings scope spans interior and exterior substrates, including drywall, wood, metal and masonry, applied by methods such as electrostatic, spray, airless, roll and brush. As standard company practice, this work is carried out by project-specific trained tradespeople under quality-control managers and approved methodologies, with onsite colour matching achieved before mass application, ITP and live documentation available to the client through OneDrive, and day and night shifts run where the programme requires them.

An over-station development leaves no comfortable slack in the finishing programme. The transport environment beneath the towers is live, the two towers reach practical completion together, and the surface and coating scopes touch nearly every space an inspector reviews. Bundling surface restoration and industrial coatings under one specialist team gives the head contractor one scope and one point of contact rather than several to chase.

It also changes what handover looks like. Methodology-driven work, delivered by trained trades under quality-control managers and captured in ITP and live, time-stamped documentation on OneDrive, gives the head contractor audit-ready quality assurance at sign-off. That documentation turns a finished-to-standard claim into something a client can verify.

The restore-in-place approach protects both programme and budget. Restoring stone, tiles, mirrors, metalwork and coated surfaces in place avoids the cost and delay of replacement, and the time-stamped record of the work gives the head contractor a clear, traceable account of each finish at handover.