Our Services

Our Method

Our experience enables us to ask the right questions. We engage with you and your team to understand your operation and verify your requirements. Additionally, we review any relevant documentation, such as existing floor plans, assessments of future activity levels, and strategic business plans.

Early Stage Briefing

For most organisations, construction represents a significant investment and risk. Our engagement lets us understand your motivation for such an investment and create a strategic brief outlining the project’s objectives, key components, and internal space relationships. This brief is a straightforward guide for your design consultants and, ultimately, the contractor.

Comprehensive Floor Space Advice

Constructing or operating too much floor space results in unnecessary costs and environmental impacts. Meanwhile, too little floor space hinders essential activities and can undermine your organisation’s progress.

Scaling a Single Construction Project

The total internal floor area of a new building closely corresponds to the eventual construction cost; therefore, an early, detailed, and comprehensive assessment of space requirements significantly reduces the risk of costs exceeding the budget.

Space Requirements Across an Estate

We can also create an internal space inventory to support larger or more complex organisations' anticipated future activities, plus external space requirements for transport, parking, sports, and leisure activities.

This inventory will be an essential guide when considering changes to an existing estate. It will pinpoint current shortfalls and potential improvement projects. Improvements may include modifying existing buildings, new buildings, or relocating to a new site.

Floor space analysis is a valuable tool for managing space. It allows you to make informed decisions about what spaces you lack and what you have in excess. However, a proactive Property Strategy process finds opportunities for improvement. It can then identify the most advantageous projects for your College or University.

With often stretched resources, managing an estate has become more challenging. You must respond to an evolving curriculum, construction cost inflation, operational cost increases and the decarbonisation challenge. So, an efficient, effective, yet affordable pathway is essential. Your successful strategic solution will consider the following:

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• Your Educational Vision

• Your Detailed Curriculum Planning

• Your Teaching Methods

• Your Floor Space Requirments

• The Existing Estate and Site Layout

• Each Existing Building's Condition and Suitability

• Best Opportunities for Change/Future Development 

• The Local Planning Context

• Environmental Sustainability/Carbon Reduction

• Costs/Long-Term Financial Sustainability

• Project Funding/Affordability

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Our Method

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We use a four-step process to find the best strategic solution and create a launchpad for action.

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• Estate & Space Analysis

• Strategic Estates Options

• Project Testing

• Full Business Case

Find more about our approach to Education Property Strategies here.