Process

Just as your project should be an expression of your vision, personality, needs and aspirations, so our work is an expression of our ethos and belief. Working with our Clients to understand, or help them create their vision is our first priority, and the most enticing part of our job.

We go into each project with zero preconceptions or prescriptive ideas about how it should work. Instead we invite open, transparent and collaborative dialogue with our Clients to figure out how we can best work with them to realise their visions.

Every project comes with its own set of constraints and challenges, but we use these as opportunities to create something truly unique and help achieve the best possible outcome for our Clients and Partners. We lead ambitious projects in a spirit of collaboration, efficiency and with positivity.

Our services span the entire RIBA Plan of Work (2020), with expertise in all aspects of project delivery from design to development.

Our commercial sensibility and deep understanding of the development process underpins the exceptional, imaginative and un-paralleled designs we can envisage and realise. We can assist you in developing your already fully-fledged ideas in any dimension, or work with you to create these ideas from scratch.

  • Coming up with the idea, setting the scene, and establishing goals and outcomes.

    • Project initiation

    • Client requirements

    • Business case

    • Appraisal

  • Creating the project framework, testing assumptions and making schematic proposals.

    • Feasibility study

    • Pre-app advice

    • Project brief, budget & programme

    • Project execution plan

    • Site information

  • Conceptualising and visualising the idea, testing the analysis and determining the best fit.

    • Planning application

    • Project strategies

    • Outline specification

    • Outline cost plan

  • Designing the idea in detail, fleshing out the concept, and posing alternative scenarios.

    • Design studies & analysis

    • Cost plan

    • Information for coordiantion

    • Cross-disciplinary alignment

  • Preparing for manifestation, checking and confirming details, and testing technical compliance.

    • Building regulations application

    • Construction phase plan

    • Detailed specification

    • Information for manufacture

    • Tender process

  • Manifesting the idea and bringing it to life through building and making, and monitoring quality.

    • Logistics plan

    • On and off site works

    • Building manual

    • Practical completion

  • Checking, testing and finalising quality; delivering the finished project to the end user.

    • Review performance

    • Aftercare

    • Commissioning

    • Final certificate

  • Enjoying and evaluating the project outcome.

    • Post-occupancy evaluation

    • Verify project outcomes

    • Facilities management regime