Buildings
Shaping the built environment from single buildings to entire estate portfolios
Our goal? To design places and spaces that have a positive impact on communities, users, owners, and the environment. As engineering design consultants, we influence best practice and industry standards across the buildings sector. We¡¯re focused on minimising environmental impacts, improving the use of technology in both design and operation, and delivering safe, energy efficient, and purposeful buildings.
If you need a sustainable strategy, our Buildings team can develop one for both new development and the long-term management and maintenance of your property estate. We¡¯ll help you understand the most effective, low-carbon choices in design, material selection, and construction.
When we design an asset, we set parameters that consider the future impacts of climate change, and we focus on long-term use, considering energy efficiency, safety, and flexibility. We can also help you secure the power you need, and we can help you identify and invest in appropriate renewable energy strategies.
Most importantly though, we work with you to create a building¡ªwhether new or a retrofit¡ªthat complements its community and supports commerce, learning, living, health, and leisure.
Technical skills that bring buildings to life
Whatever the scale or complexity of your project, we¡¯ll match your ambition with the ingenuity to make it happen. That means understanding people¡¯s needs, challenges, the environmental context and the user experience. Our engineers help unlock complex sites and create high-performing, sustainable buildings and infrastructure. With our integrated, multidisciplinary approach, we work from initial site due diligence through planning support, detailed design, construction, handover, and into use.Designed for performance is designed for life
Creating a positive experience from the built environment matters to users and the community¡ªand to investors and developers. For new build and retrofit, we¡¯re on top of how to meet your sustainability targets and how to secure industry-recognised environmental benchmarks such as BREEAM. Our analysis of long-term climatic trends means we¡¯re designing to adapt to climate change, keeping your asset resilient for decades to come.Managing fire risk in the built environment
Blending science and real-world experience, we keep people safe by developing holistic fire engineering strategies that protect businesses, buildings, and the people who occupy them. We can provide advanced techniques in simulation and analysis, and we work to mitigate risks and construction delays. With our extensive experience liaising with planning authorities and our familiarity with Building Safety Act requirements, we can help you deliver the fire safety engineering you need.Optimising the performance of your estate
We can analyse the performance of real estate portfolios in terms of energy use, carbon impacts, wellbeing, fire safety, and space utilisation. We¡¯ve worked with the NHS estate, university and college estates, mission critical assets, and for real estate investment trusts with assets in housing as well as commerce. Our data-led approach helps maintenance programmes tackle issues including expenditure, modernisation, and carbon-reduction.
Scott Elliott, Managing Director
While adapting to a changing climate and embracing clean energy, we¡¯re helping create solutions that will lead to a sustainable future.
Martin Dix, Director, Buildings
We work with great clients on complex buildings¡ªpositively contributing to society while learning, evolving, and educating along the way.
Jason Walker, Buildings Lead & Divisional Director, Civils & Structures
I¡¯m dedicated to building exceptional projects that empower our clients to realise their vision and foster vibrant communities.
Bryan Murray, Director, Buildings
As a designer, making the complicated appear simple is the culmination of good engineering.
Dan Beynon, National Head of Regions
The joy in our work comes from seeing how improvements to the built environment can regenerate communities and drive social mobility.
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