People. Place. Environment.

Client-Side Project Management

Planning, procurement, and delivery for Civil Infrastructure Projects up to $5M in value, specialising in:Contaminated sites - investigations, and remediation works.
Waste and landfill - cells, capping, leachate control, and transfer stations.
Road rehabilitation - overlays, stabilisation, and reconstruction in live traffic.
Aboriginal heritage - Due dilligence, ACHAR, and ALRA and NPWA navigation.
Public domain works - pathways, parklands, and carparks.
Approval pathways - scope development, specialist studies, and Part 5 approvals.
Contract administration - specification development, superintendent services, and administration using AS4000, AS2142, GC21, MW21, and Defence standard form contracts.

Residential Building Design

Planning, design, and documentation for Class 1 Buildings up to 4 Dwellings, specialising in:New homes and small multi-unit or dual-occupancy developments.
Additions and alterations for existing dwellings.
Concept design and feasibility assessments against site constraints.
Development approvals including DA and CDC pathways..
Documentation for tendering and construction.
Site planning integrating access, drainage, utilities, and site conditions..
Stakeholder coordination with engineers, planners, consultants, and authorities.

Who We Are

Talyama Pty Ltd is an Aboriginal owned and operated consulting firm based in Newcastle, NSW.We support asset owners, land managers, and housing providers. to deliver housing and infrastructure projects with cultural integrity and professional precision.

Client-Side Project Management

Residential Building Design

Grant Whitbourne

Grant is a Certified Practising Project Manager (with the Australian Institute of Project Management) in the built environment that leads with a pragmatic and decisive approach. His professional experience to date has resulted in well-rounded skills across a number of key disciplines allowing him to make decisions in a highly considered manner, and ensuring that project objectives and client expectations are always met. This experience includes on-site construction works, design and engineering, design management, and client-side project management with Tier 1 consulting firms in the Australian market.Grants background is originally in civil engineering consulting where he often worked on complex and sensitive design solutions that required the input of multiple disciplines. These types of projects allowed Grant to develop not only a sound understanding of each engineering discipline but also the logical approach to connecting the pieces, often in a creative manner, to provide the best value outcome for the project. He now applies this dynamic approach to client-side project management with a focus on people, planning, procurement, and delivery.

Roimatta Selway

Roimatta is a descendant of Yuin Nation on the South Coast of NSW, and resides on Awabakal lands in Lake Macquarie, NSW. She is a passionate residential building designer, having been a lead designer for one of NSW's largest home builders for the past 10 years, and prior to that she spent several years in local council in a development assessment team. In this time she has designed and overseen the design of 200+ new homes, guiding and navigating the design process through the various planning constraints imposed on this type of development. She has a strong understanding of SEPP's, DCP's, approval pathways and the NCC, and an innate ability to balance functionality with practicality to deliver exceptional design outcomes.Her passion for good-design comes from having grown up with an extremely large extended family, and her first-hand experience in realising the benefits of safe and secure housing has for families. She understands the housing complexities that indigenous people through her own lived experiences, and that of her extended family.