Buildings
Every building has a role to fulfill — living, working, playing, making journeys, learning, healing. Each function has its own technical requirements. But human health and happiness also have a significant bearing upon a building’s performance and success.
Recent years have seen the emergence of a host of new or intensified challenges for building owners and operators. Among them are climate change and environmental regulation, stricter standards for fire safety, waste, and air quality, and the advent of new technologies and working practices. Resilience in the face of those challenges is crucial to delivering your business goals.
That’s why a good building needs to be simple to create, operate, adapt, and ultimately remove; it must be cost-effective over its lifecycle, respect its environment, and be appropriately functional.
And the lived experience of customers, employees, and the surrounding community is at the heart of a successful building, whatever its purpose. Providing great experiences leads to better outcomes for everyone.
What can we do for you?
Whether you’re in the public or private sector, we can support your project — we work across a broad range of building types including arts and culture, aviation and ports, commercial, retail and offices, education, healthcare, local and central government, residential and hotels, sports and events venues, and transportation buildings.
Building performance engineering
Optimizing performance requires striking the right balance between science, art and economics, and applying ingenuity. This enables you to make the most of investment, minimize the costs of operation, repair, and maintenance, and maximize financial return. We call this approach building performance engineering.
Support across the whole building lifecycle
Whether it’s for a new development or an existing building, a single structure or a large estate, we can provide support at any stage of a building’s lifecycle — from project shaping, through delivery, to in-use performance. Or we can work throughout the duration of a project, providing the joined-up thinking needed for optimum outcomes.
Exceptional breadth and depth of expertise and experience
We offer fully integrated cross-disciplinary engineering from our global network of creative thinkers, enabling us to deliver the most complex, technically demanding projects. We bring industry-leading talent together to deliver outstanding outcomes, whether from within our own team or those of our specialist partners.
Innovative building solutions for sustainable growth
Our services span the whole asset cycle from advisory and consulting, through design and delivery, to asset management. We understand all phases of the building lifecycle, which enables us to give you the best informed advice at any stage.
Our experience
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London Stansted airport transformation programme, UKWe are leading the £600 million overhaul of the 1990s terminal building and airside facilities at the UK’s fourth-busiest airport. We have taken a systems led approach, focusing on essential airport operations and then designing around them a building that serves those systems and allows them to be optimized.
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Mosaic Stadium, Regina, CanadaWe were the concept designer, responsible for engineering, quantity surveying, and architecture for the new Saskatchewan Roughriders football stadium. Its partial roof was designed to shield spectators from the elements as well as prevent snow accumulation. It was built to support the construction of a full roof in the future.
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Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot, UKFrom the initial planning application in 2015 to the project’s completion in 2022, our team supported the delivery of Prescot’s new theater at every stage. The 460-seat wooden performance space is a faithful recreation of an Elizabethan design. The £38 million project will boost the local economy of this market town in northwest England, contributing to the regeneration of the area.
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Tarrkarri Centre for First Nations Cultures, Adelaide, AustraliaWe are delivering structural, civil, and facade engineering for the center, which will showcase the past, present, and future of Aboriginal cultures while supporting contemporary art practices. The AU $200 million building’s exhibition spaces will offer views of the natural surroundings, seamlessly blending inside with outside, natural with built.
Geospatial
Receive insights in real time from onsite sensors using web-based GIS mapping software. Geospatial is a mapping and analysis solution that enables diverse project teams to view project data and collaborate. Its functions range from geospatial planning and route alignment for linear infrastructure such as roads, railways, power lines and pipelines, to the management of stakeholder relationships.
