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 consulting. Whether you're assessing a new development, expanding your portfolio, or optimising existing assets, our team can develop tailored solutions to meet 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:
→ Site Appraisal & Capacity Planning
Through Human Space, our specialist inclusive design consultancy, we advise clients on embedding inclusive principles and creating environments that respond to diverse user needs:
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 Strategy 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
→ Independent Client Advisory
These services are powered by our wider Building Safety consultancy team
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.
Strategic Solutions
Palace of Westminster Restoration and Renewal
Full interdisciplinary client advisory services helping secure the future of the Palace of Westminster through coordinated restoration and renewal.
214 Oxford Street
We have led the transformation of 214 Oxford Street into a contemporary mixed-use development.
University of Cambridge, Reshaping Our Estate
Evidence based estate strategy shaping long term investment, improved utilisation and sustainable, future ready academic environments.
PWC Framework
Framework appointment supporting PwC’s UK real estate portfolio through integrated interior design, space planning analysis and workplace consultancy.
Foundation, Altrincham
Adaptive reuse transforming an underperforming retail asset into a low carbon, mixed use destination for work, wellbeing and social connection.
Sheffield Hallam University Campus Plan
A transformational masterplan reshaping the University’s city centre estate into a sustainable, collaborative, future-ready learning environment
Platform 37 – Google HQ
New UK headquarters for Google at King’s Cross combining workplace innovation, sustainability and global operational standards.
Swadlincote Town Centre Masterplan
A coordinated masterplan is redefining Swadlincote Town Centre as a more appealing, accessible and activity‑led destination.
The Ironworks, Dublin
Net zero aligned sustainability strategy and technical delivery supporting a major build to rent development in Dundrum.
Manchester Metropolitan University, Science and Engineering
Redevelopment of MMU’s Faculty of Science and Engineering, delivering advanced teaching, research facilities and flexible, future-ready spaces.
Milton Keynes University Hospital
Strategic estate and infrastructure development enabling campus expansion, clinical capacity growth and a phased transition to net zero.
Accessibility Framework for Waterfront Wide Initiative
Developing inclusive waterfront design standards that embed accessibility, equity and ageing-in-place principles across future developments.
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Church Street Park Cricket Ground
Integrated advisory and design shaping a distinctive East Coast cricket venue that balances elite sport, community value and long term growth.
Bush House South West Wing
Sustainability strategy for King’s College London’s most ambitious low-carbon building to date at Bush House South West Wing.
Manchester YMCA
Decarbonisation and resilience strategy improving building performance, supporting Net Zero and strengthening long-term community impact.
University of Guelph Accessibility and Inclusion Audit
The University's dedication to inclusion, diversity, and equity is strengthened by this campus-wide interior accessibility and inclusion audit.
University of Warwick - STEM Cluster
Transformational STEM campus development supporting research, industry collaboration and sustainable innovation at the University of Warwick.
Newcastle University, Optimisation Strategy
Development of an integrated estate optimisation and Net Zero Carbon strategy using the Great Estates Toolkit to support investment decisions.
University Hospitals Leicester
Integrated estates optimisation and infrastructure strategy enabling consolidation into two resilient, future ready acute facilities.
Clatterbridge Hospital, Wirral
Coordinated appraisal and planning strategy guiding land use decisions, estate rationalisation and future development potential for the UK NHS Trust.
South East London Community Diagnostic Centre for Guy's and St Thomas'
Supporting the selection of a site for a new Community Diagnostic Centre in South East London through site appraisal and capacity planning advice.
Homes England Inclusive Healthy Homes and Places
Supporting Homes England to embed inclusive design through the intersectional of research, engagement and practical guidance.
Our Strategy & Planning experts
Our Assets & 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
Our Digital & Smart Solutions expert
Digital Design Adviser
Elliott Crossley
Our Sustainability Strategy experts
Our Safety & Compliance expert
