Buildings

We can: 

• Help you set out a vision that is ambitious and stretching while also affordable, deliverable and technically viable.
• Create a building design that provides the best possible chance of meeting your desired goals, while ensuring safety and building in adaptability through model-based and scenario planning.
• Ensure your building harmonises with the wider urban system and public realm by using cross-disciplinary and connected thinking to realise synergies and save cost while maximising community benefits.
• Put your project on a firm economic footing by finding the right financial model to minimise risk and maximise reward over the lifetime of buildings and infrastructure, enhancing through-life value and return on investment.
• Advise on and implement appropriate building systems for asset information management, enabling better decision making from project inception through delivery and handover into operation, adaptation and eventual recovery and reuse.  

We can: 

• Provide planning and commercial expertise to help you overcome physical, legal and policy constraints that might block progress.
• Find the right financial model to minimise risk and maximise reward over the lifetime of buildings, enhancing through-life value and return on investment. 
• Advise on procurement strategy, ensuring you get the right services to meet your changing operational needs and helping you establish processes and protocols to get the most out of digital project delivery.
• Ensure the right services are available to deliver capital projects successfully and meet changing operational needs, depending on the through-life service requirements and demands of a building.
• Manage and oversee projects, drawing on specialists in visualisation, data analysis, mapping, surveying, permitting and more, to reduce risk, save you money and deliver on schedule.
• Define information requirements by advising on and implementing asset information management, helping you to make better decisions, faster and cheaper. 

We can: 

• Lay out a practical, affordable route to decarbonisation that also supports your wider business goals. 
• Optimise investment plans by carrying out long term analysis of how assets will degrade over time and predicting the likely business outcomes of different levels of intervention.
• Improve asset resilience in the face of challenges such as climate change,  for day-to-day management as well as meeting future strategic objectives.
• Maximise asset value by taking a holistic view and going beyond the balance sheet to consider broader factors, such as social outcomes and understanding the contribution of asset information through the right building systems to decision making processes. 

We can:  

• Help keep workers, users and communities safe by providing fire and life safety as core services.  
• Equip buildings so they can be modified over time in response to social, commercial, technical and climatic considerations, and retain value, using model-based scenario planning and digital technology.  

We can:  

• Ensure a project fits into the larger fabric of its local built environment – planning the building and its surrounding area to provide proximity to the services people need, easy access and inclusion, and enjoyable shared spaces. 
• Improve building design for outcomes that benefit nature – taking into account air, water, land and natural habitats. We understand that when nature thrives, people do too. 
• Advise on the use of healthy building materials, products, fittings and furniture – produced without harm to the environment, non-toxic in use, and able to be reused or recycled without harm when no longer required. We have developed a comprehensive list of materials that are benign to users and the environment.
• Design out infection transmission pathways, taking account of spatial design, the movement of people, ventilation and shared surfaces – in buildings, the public realm, transport facilities and other shared spaces.