Data centres, housing, medical and retirement living.
Ascendis Group is an Australian property development company working across regional and metropolitan Australia. We find the tenant first, then bring the property owner and the builder into the same deal.
Every stream starts with a building that already exists, and an assessment of what it can become.
Primary focus
We convert suitable industrial and commercial buildings into data centres, powered efficiently and responsibly. Regional operators, councils, utilities and managed service providers need capacity close to where they work.
Second stream
We repurpose suitable buildings into housing that revitalises regional communities. The structure, the slab and the envelope are already there, so the work goes into the living spaces, creating homes with real character.
Third stream
We convert suitable buildings into medical and retirement living facilities. Regional populations are short of both, and the buildings that could host them are often sitting empty in the same towns.
Sustainability shapes every site we acquire and every decision we make about it.
The largest single emission in a new building is locked in before anyone switches a light on. Keeping the structure avoids most of it.
Demolition sends a building to landfill so a replacement can be trucked in. Reuse keeps the frame, the slab and the envelope in service.
A standing building shortens the programme. The work becomes fit-out, services and consent rather than groundwork and structure.
Underused assets in regional towns come back into use, and the jobs and services attached to them stay local.
Power is the bottleneck in data centre supply. We pair buildings that already have a grid connection with tenants who need capacity in the regions.
A use for a building with a thin tenancy, assessed properly before anyone is asked to commit.
Capacity in your own region, specified against your requirement rather than against what the building used to be.
Send us the address and the supply capacity, and we will tell you within a week whether the building works.
Tell us about your buildingWe screen a site before anyone spends money on consultants.
We test power, structure, fibre and planning against hard limits, using our own screening software, which has already assessed many sites.
We confirm who will take the space before the design is fixed, so the building is specified against a real requirement.
We brief the planners, engineers and fire consultants, and check their reports before council sees them.
We manage the programme, the builder, the contract and the handover, with delivery experience at institutional scale.
Ascendis Group is an Australian property development company based in Sydney. It converts standing buildings into regional data centres, adaptive-reuse housing, medical and retirement living facilities.
Regional and metropolitan areas across all states in Australia.
Available power capacity at the connection point rules out most sites first. Slab loading, clear internal height, plant access, room for heat rejection, and carrier fibre arriving by two separate routes are tested next.
Most of a new building's carbon is spent before anyone switches a light on. Keeping the structure avoids that and shortens the programme to occupancy.
Ascendis Group Pty Ltd was founded by David Lai and Roland Machaalani. Stephen Hawkins advises on capital and Asian markets.
Roland MachaalaniDirector
Registered architect and founder of UrbanActive, whose construction methodology visualisations are behind over $100 billion of successful Australian construction tenders.
David LaiDirector
Founder of the project management consultancy DKL Projects. Spent 19 years as head of commercial projects delivery at Goodman Group, Australia's largest industrial property group, on more than $2 billion of projects.
Stephen HawkinsStrategic Advisor
More than 35 years in real estate and funds management, and over $3 billion of transactions across Australia, Japan, China and Southeast Asia. Co-founded LOGOS, now ESR's Southeast Asia platform, and built Goodman Group's Asian offices.
If you own an industrial site, need capacity in a regional centre, or want to talk about an adaptive-reuse project, send us the detail and we will come back to you.
