Advisory Services
Connecting strategic ambition with design outcomes.
Analytical rigor with design intelligence will unlock the strategic potential of your buildings and places.
We provide tailored strategic advisory services that empower our clients to make smarter decisions, maximise returns, and mitigate risk. With deep industry expertise and insight, we help you navigate complex challenges and opportunities from strategy and planning to asset optimisation and sustainable consultancy. Whether you're assessing a new development, expanding your portfolio, or optimising existing assets, our team can develop tailored solutions to your unique needs.
We bring clarity to the earliest stages of development, ensuring planning, design and movement choices support long term objectives and user needs. This is served through:
→ Design and Programme Management
→ Strategic Brief Development
We work with clients to understand how their assets and estates can perform better over time, ensuring that their future investments are aligned with organisational goals and future needs. This includes:
We help organisations manage their estates confidently and responsibly. We work from the earliest project stages to reduce risk and develop digital and data strategies, to deliver assets that are prepared for long term needs. We are able to do this through:
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Our sustainability strategies balance ambition with delivery. We help businesses align environmental and wider ESG goals with business priorities, regulation, and opportunities through:
→ Organisational Sustainability Strategy
→ Net Zero Carbon Strategy
→ Social Value Strategy
These services are powered by our wider Sustainability consultancy team.
Building safety is embedded in the very fabric of our design philosophy. As both Building Regulations Principal Designer and CDM Principal Designer, we lead with a culture of designing safely, where health, safety, and compliance are integrated from the earliest project stages, and not treated as a separate concern.
→ BRPD Principal Designer Services
→ CDM Principal Designer Services
These services are powered by our wider Building Safety consultancy team
Think.
Optimising Estates
Our estate framework explores the interconnected layers that deliver a route to Net Zero Carbon.
Redevelop, reduce, reuse
How can we approach reuse with boldness and imagination, transforming today’s buildings into tomorrow’s assets?
Great Estates Toolkit
What would your estate look like if every square metre worked harder for students, staff, and carbon reduction?
Game Changers
How BIM is driving more data-centric, efficient design methods.
A new standard for safer architecture
In every floorplan drawn, beam laid, and façade imagined, design speaks. Not just of aesthetic ambition, but of care, conscience, and accountability.
Design.
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Practice.
Our Strategy and planning experts
Our assets and estates strategy experts
Advisory Services Lead
Steve Merridew
Estate Optimisation - Education Estates Adviser
Sue Emms
Estate Optimisation - Healthcare Estates Adviser
Max Martin
Decarbonisation Adviser
Ste Garlick
Asset Optimisation Adviser
Garry Wilding
Workplace Strategy Adviser
Nigel Coutts
Assets & Estates Strategy experts
Our digital and smart solutions experts
Digital Design Adviser
Elliott Crossley
Digital and Smart Solutions experts
Our sustainability strategy experts
Our safety and compliance experts
