Our Sectors
Our UK and global offices support clients throughout the UK, Europe, Jordan, UAE, USA, Qatar, Australia and China
Residential
One of the most pressing national challenges is the need to meet the ever growing housing demand.
Our multidisciplinary team provides a comprehensive range of professional services across the full project cycle. From making a new development possible at the investigatory and planning stage, to making it happen through innovative design and robust project management, we help our clients to develop places people want to call home.
Whether we’re working at the conceptual stages of site selection ensuring that our clients maximise potential, managing a large urban expansion for a consortium of major housebuilders or providing development advice to social housing providers - we call upon our deep understanding of the residential development process to deliver successful, sustainable results.
Retail
Humans are complex and wonderful. We take time to understand the behaviours that influence retail experiences. This is critical to our retail Transport Planning work by directing our thinking, innovation and infrastructure design.
Whether the project is a major town centre development or a single retail outlet we deliver vibrant, safe and sustainable retail environments which give our clients a leading edge in today’s competitive market.
Our multidisciplinary transport planning expertise includes town centre regeneration as well as out-of-town shopping malls, retail parks and store fitting for both independent and major retailers.
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Education
Over the years we’ve worked with our Clients to improve the learning environments of the next generation, recognising our responsibility to create spaces where people of all ages can learn, innovate and build our future.
Our people have years of experience transforming schools, colleges and higher education institutes so that they, and their students, can reach their fullest potential.
By using the full breadth of our people’s expertise, we can provide a range of solutions to the education sector from a simple car park management plan, site rationalisation and reconfiguration, travel plans, small extension to amalgamation, expansion, relocation and total rebuild
Health Care
Working at the forefront of healthcare design, we have extensive experience in providing innovative, safe and sustainable facilities, able to withstand constant use and future-proofed to cope with advances in technology and care.
Our experience ranges from strategy and feasibility to the full design and delivery of an acute hospital.
Through our capacity building expertise, we support organisations and governments in developing the local, sustainable skills needed to manage effective healthcare provision through the development and delivery of bespoke training schemes
Commercial & Offices
As global economies strengthen and grow so too does the commercial property market. Whether a property is solely for commercial use or part of a larger mixed-use development the business needs and operations of a client are of upmost importance to ensure that a property can be in use as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Our multidisciplinary teams have undertaken a range of projects in this area from new build to refurbishment and regeneration. We also undertake all aspects of Transport Planning research, analysis and development transport management strategies for developers, occupiers and local authorities.
Our wide-ranging involvement in the commercial market can be demonstrated through our involvement countless schemes throughout the UK and worldwide…we put your business needs first.
Leisure
Assisting people to make the most of their leisure time, doing what they love, is what makes the leisure industry tick.
Our work in this market involves everything from commercial leisure proposals as part of a mixed-use development to small scale boutique hotels and museums in historic listed buildings.
Regeneration
Revitalising an area through regeneration projects can attract economic investment, create employment opportunities and provide much-needed, residential accommodation. Creative solutions are often required to ensure that bringing these elements together creates a sustainable new community that benefits everybody involved.
Our experts have extensive experience in delivering complex regeneration schemes from planning through to design and development. Schemes that we have worked on range from large brownfield redevelopments to small-scale, locally important sites. Our work in this area involves us taking an overview of what drives viable development and of the social and economic challenges facing a community as well as the more tangible physical fabric of a location
Mining & Renewables
Projects range from wind farms, biomass and groundwater solutions to geothermal, solar and tidal options. Within each of these categories our capabilities, experience and track record are extensive. Our contribution ranges from helping national governments devise strategies for renewable energy exploitation to the delivery of biomass power stations.
We cover all traffic, transport, highways and environmental aspects of renewable projects. We bring world class expertise in the latest generation technologies – wind, solar, hydro, geothermal, biomass, tidal, wave and waste to energy. We assist government agencies and provide advice to companies seeking to expand their energy portfolio or acquire renewable assets.
Further, whether developing a new mining prospect, optimising existing operations, or planning for closure, there are always ways to reduce cost and save time through innovation, efficient design or by streamlining the delivery process. Our infrastructure, traffic and transportation and environmental experts can help your mining team make the right choices.
Masterplanning
Ensuring that your proposal features an adequate transport movement infrastructure is fundamental to delivering a development acceptable to the Planning Authority and which will also work for users.
Working with masterplanners, our experts ensure that proposed layouts are workable and support client aspirations. Current planning policy demands that development projects encourage sustainable travel.
We have extensive experience of reducing dependency upon cars by ‘designing in’ easy and attractive options for walking, cycling and public transport.
We are experienced in working on large scale, mixed-use, urban regeneration projects, as well as prestigious ‘greenfield’ developments. We provide our clients with innovative ideas on how to improve the quality of access by all modes of transport, and how to successfully integrate each mode, providing pleasant urban environments which are accessible to all. We advise on:
on-site highway layouts, public transport provision including real time passenger information, road safety aspects, HGV movements and requirements, provision for pedestrians and cyclists, assessing highways impact and identifying improvements to mitigate impact