What We Do
Retail Defits
We deliver structured, compliant retail defits within live shopping centre environments.
Our team manages safety, asset protection, and handover requirements to minimise disruption and risk.
Make-Good Services
End-of-lease make-good works delivered to landlord and centre requirements.
We manage reinstatement, compliance checks, and final handover without delay.
Tenancy Strip-Outs
Controlled strip-outs for retail and commercial tenancies.
Delivered safely, efficiently, and in line with centre protocols.
Commercial Defits
Defit works for commercial and mixed-use environments.
Planned and executed to protect adjacent assets and maintain compliance.
Hospitality Defits
Specialist defits for hospitality venues operating within live environments.
Focused on safety, coordination, and efficient handover.
The Defit Group is a specialist retail and commercial defit contractor operating within Australia’s most complex live environments.
We deliver structured, fully compliant defits that protect landlord assets, manage risk, and ensure seamless handover at end of lease.
Australia’s Specialist Retail & Commercial Defit Contractor
The Defit Group is a specialist retail and commercial defit contractor delivering controlled, fully compliant works within live environments.
We specialise in shopping centre defits, tenancy strip-outs, make-goods, and end-of-lease closures across retail, hospitality, and commercial assets throughout Victoria.
With ISO-aligned systems and extensive experience operating within Vicinity, QIC, Mirvac, ISPT, Region Group and Haben centres, we work confidently in environments where safety, asset protection, and centre compliance are critical.
"Reset. Refine. Deliver."
Protect people. Protect assets. Prepare the site.
In this first phase, we create controlled conditions that ensure safety, compliance and asset protection.
This lays the foundation for an efficient, disruption-free defit.
Actions include:
Site Setup:controlled hoarding, exclusion zones, access management
Retail Safety Compliance:permits, inductions, lock-out/tag-out, risk assessments
Asset Protection Procedures: safeguarding walls, floors, base-build finishes, and adjacent tenancies
Service Isolation: electrical, mechanical, plumbing, fire systems
Waste Management Setup: bins, sorting, recycling pathways
Outcome:
A safe, compliant environment ready for efficient defit works with zero disruption to surrounding tenants.
Protect people. Protect assets. Prepare the site.
In this first phase, we create controlled conditions that ensure safety, compliance and asset protection.
This lays the foundation for an efficient, disruption-free defit.
Actions include:
Site Setup:controlled hoarding, exclusion zones, access management
Retail Safety Compliance:permits, inductions, lock-out/tag-out, risk assessments
Asset Protection Procedures: safeguarding walls, floors, base-build finishes, and adjacent tenancies
Service Isolation: electrical, mechanical, plumbing, fire systems
Waste Management Setup: bins, sorting, recycling pathways
Outcome:
A safe, compliant environment ready for efficient defit works with zero disruption to surrounding tenants.
Protect people. Protect assets. Prepare the site.
In this first phase, we create controlled conditions that ensure safety, compliance and asset protection.
This lays the foundation for an efficient, disruption-free defit.
Actions include:
Site Setup:controlled hoarding, exclusion zones, access management
Retail Safety Compliance:permits, inductions, lock-out/tag-out, risk assessments
Asset Protection Procedures: safeguarding walls, floors, base-build finishes, and adjacent tenancies
Service Isolation: electrical, mechanical, plumbing, fire systems
Waste Management Setup: bins, sorting, recycling pathways
Outcome:
A safe, compliant environment ready for efficient defit works with zero disruption to surrounding tenants.
Recent Work
A selection of our retail, hospitality and commercial defits delivered across Melbourne and greater Victoria
Shanghai house of delight
Location:
206 Bourke Street, Melbourne
Scope:
Full Defit back to bare shell.
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Major Bank defits
Location:
Chadstone shopping centre
Scope:
Full Defit and reconfiguration works to existing banks – Bank of Melbourne, Commonwealth banks Australia, Westpac and ANZ
Former TK Maxx Tenancy
Location:
Bayside Shopping Centre, VIC
Scope:
Full defit back to bare shell
Alexander McQueen
Location:
Chadstone Shopping Centre, VIC
Scope:
Full defit and reconfiguration works (IT wall removal)
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Sportscraft & Lululemon
Location:
Chadstone Shopping Centre, VIC
Scope:
Full defit back to bare shell with IT wall removal
Ex July 1-004 Emporium
Location:
Chadstone Shopping Centre, VIC
Scope:
Full defit back to bare shell with IT wall removal
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