Coatings & specialty finishes
Industrial and architectural coatings — applied to specification, available to Dubai projects
Structural steel coated to the engineering specification, interior and exterior architectural painting, and industrial equipment resprays — one coatings team, proven on Australian tier-1 projects.
Australian delivery record · M&M project photography
What it is
What this service covers and how we deliver it
Coatings are the trade M&M was built on as M&M Spray Painting, and its founders bring 25 years in the trade. M&M's teams have delivered structural steel coatings and architectural painting on Australian projects including Western Sydney International Airport, One Sydney Harbour and Martin Place North & South, working to the standard tier-1 main contractors expect. That capability, with full ITP records, is now available to Dubai projects.
Structural steel carries a protective coating system, and when that system is damaged or incomplete the fix is a specification matter, not a cosmetic one. M&M coats finished steel works using established coating systems and instruments, reinstating the protective system to the engineering specification rather than simply restoring the appearance. On Dubai projects, methods and acceptance points are set against the project specification and applicable UAE codes.
On the architectural side the team covers the complete interior and exterior range — drywall, wood, metal and masonry — in roll, brush and spray application, with electrostatic and airless methods alongside conventional spray so the technique matches the substrate and the setting. Colour is matched on site, on the actual product, before any mass application. Any access-at-height requirement for a coatings package is confirmed separately for the project.
The proof sits in the Australian portfolio. M&M's coatings teams have delivered on Western Sydney International Airport, Martin Place North & South, W Hotel Sydney and One Sydney Harbour — the harbourside towers among them coastal high-rise work, where sun, salt and weather test every coating system. Gulf conditions are harsher again — higher temperatures, higher salinity, wind-borne sand — and we make no claim that the environments are the same. What the Australian record offers is directly relevant experience: coatings specified and applied on buildings where the finish had to survive the environment, not just the handover inspection.
Behind the application methods sits delivery discipline. The group fields 90+ skilled staff in Australia, with project-specific tradespeople under quality-control managers, and every scope is recorded through ITPs held in live project records — good quality-assurance practice that hands the main contractor a complete, traceable record at close-out. Industrial equipment spray painting sits within the same capability, a discipline the business has carried since its spray-painting origins, backed in Australia by an established spray booth and workshop.
What's included
Everything this scope covers
- Structural steel coatings to the engineering specification and applicable project requirements
- Architectural painting — interior and exterior
- Drywall, wood, metal and masonry substrates
- Roll, brush and spray application
- Electrostatic painting
- Airless painting
- Industrial equipment spray painting
- On-site colour matching on the actual product before any mass application
- Specialty finishes recreated in paint and coating to the architect's specification, including metal-effect finishes
- Sample approval against the specified reference before any specialty finish is applied
Specialty finishes
The specified finish, recreated in paint and coating
Some finishes an architect specifies are not available as a product, or the product cannot be used on the element it was drawn for. Those finishes are recreated in paint and coating: the surface prepared, the look built up in a specialty system, and the result finished to the specified reference.
On a recent Australian commercial project, the design called for a patterned stainless-steel finish on a door. The door was a fire door and no metal was allowed on it, so we recreated the finish in a specialty paint and coating system on the door itself.
Every specialty finish is colour-matched to the specified reference and approved on a sample before any mass application, then recorded against the ITP with time-stamped photographs, like the rest of the coatings scope.
What this fixes
The handover risks this scope removes
A protective system reinstated by appearance alone
Damage to a coated steel element is a specification matter before it is a cosmetic one. Finished steel works are coated using established coating systems and instruments, reinstating the protective system to the engineering specification rather than restoring the look of it.
A made-good area that reads as a patch
Colour is matched on site, on the actual product, and approved before any mass application, so the repaired area sits with the surfaces around it instead of announcing itself at inspection.
Coating work that cannot be evidenced at close-out
Every scope is recorded through an inspection and test plan, with time-stamped images and live project records available to your team on OneDrive as the work proceeds — a traceable record at handover rather than a file assembled afterwards.
A separate applicator for every substrate
Drywall, wood, metal and masonry, interior and exterior, roll, brush, spray, electrostatic and airless — one coatings team covers the range, so the method is chosen for the substrate and the setting instead of coordinated across several trades.
A specified finish no product supplies
Some finishes on an architect's schedule do not exist as an off-the-shelf product. They are recreated in paint and coating by tradespeople who prepare, apply and finish the surface to the specified reference, approved on a sample first.
The specified material cannot go on the element
A finish drawn as metal sheet can land on an element the sheet cannot be used on — on one project, a fire door. The look is recreated in a specialty paint and coating system instead, so the element still carries the specified finish.
How we do it
The same careful method, every time
Survey and specification review
We walk the coatings scope against the engineering specification and your defect register, confirm the substrates and the existing coating system, and set out what each element requires before the package is priced.
Preparation and access agreed
Surface preparation is set for each substrate, and any access-at-height requirement is confirmed separately against the building, with the sequence and interfaces agreed with your site team before crews mobilise.
Colour matched on the product
Colour is matched on site, on the actual product, and signed off before any mass application, so the standard is agreed up front rather than assessed after the coating is on.
Application to the specified system
Coatings are applied using established coating systems and instruments, by roll, brush, spray, electrostatic or airless as the substrate and the setting demand.
Inspection at ITP hold points
Work is inspected at the agreed hold and witness points in the inspection and test plan, so each stage is signed off as it is completed rather than reviewed in one pass at the end.
Records and close-out
Time-stamped images and inspection records are held in live project documentation on OneDrive, and items are closed on the register with that record attached.
Why it holds up
What you get when M&M does the work
Coated to the specification and applicable project requirements
Structural steel coatings are applied to the engineering specification and applicable project requirements.
Every application method
Roll, brush, spray, electrostatic and airless — the method is chosen for the substrate and the setting, not for what the crew happens to carry.
Colour approved before application
Colour is matched on site, on the actual product, and approved before any mass application, so the repaired area sits with the surfaces around it.
25+ years in spray finishing
Formerly M&M Spray Painting — refined finishing is the trade the business was built on.
Australian delivery record
Australian case studies featuring this service
One Sydney Harbour
Barangaroo, Sydney NSW
Western Sydney International Airport (WSI)
Badgerys Creek, Western Sydney NSW
Martin Place North & South
Martin Place, Sydney NSW
Dubai service areas
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