Great Estates Toolkit
What would your estate look like if every square metre worked harder for students, staff, and carbon reduction? Using real-time campus data, our Great Estates Toolkit allows universities to make better-informed decisions for students, staff and long-term estate planning.
The Great Estates Toolk (GET) it is a strategic planning tool for organisations managing large, complex estates – from universities and healthcare providers to local authorities and science campuses.
At its core, GET helps you optimise your estate: deciding what to retain, repurpose, or remove, while balancing cost, performance, and sustainability over time.
Why it matters
Organisations today face a common challenge: reduce costs and carbon while adapting to changing space needs.
Take universities as an example. Large estates, evolving teaching models, and decarbonisation targets are driving a shift toward smaller, more efficient portfolios. But change happens gradually, often over decades, and traditional estate strategies quickly become outdated.
GET replaces static plans with a dynamic, living tool that evolves with your organisation.
What GET does
GET enables you to test “what if” scenarios and understand long-term impacts before making decisions:
- What happens if a building is decommissioned?
- What is the impact of low-carbon upgrades?
- How will costs and emissions change over 15–20 years?
It provides a flexible, forward-looking approach to estate planning, grounded in data, not assumptions.
A three-part approach...
Understand your estate
A Power BI dashboard brings together fragmented data into a single, clear view. It highlights underused space, inefficiencies, and usage patterns, enabling evidence-based decisions and better stakeholder conversations.
Define your future estate
An interactive space calculator translates demand (e.g. student numbers, utilisation rates) into a clear spatial brief. The result is a right-sized, efficient estate aligned to future needs.
Test scenarios and build a strategy
Model projects and interventions – from consolidation to low-carbon upgrades – and see the impact on:
- Capital cost
- Carbon emissions
- Energy use
- Estate size
GET also factors in phasing, inflation, and carbon trends, helping you create a realistic, deliverable roadmap.
From insight to action
GET is designed to be visual, intuitive, and interactive. Users can explore data, test options, and see results instantly, accelerating decision-making.
The outcome
GET moves estate planning from static reporting to active decision-making, helping organisations reduce footprint, cut costs, and improve sustainability, while maintaining high-quality spaces.