Increase your Certainty
Articulating where you want to go, helping to make sure you get there.
Uphold quality while avoiding waste
Reducing wasted time and overspend whilst balancing quality, cost and value and championing sustainability, clarity and transparency.
Understand how and where value is created
Guiding strategic planning and empowering decision making from the outset, using our design knowledge and judgement and extensive cross- sector experience to avoid blind alleys and common pitfalls.
Use as little or as much of us as you need
Adding significant value at a disproportionally low cost, our bespoke service helps our clients increase the certainty of achieving their goals.
Services
Business planning
Design related input to client business plan
Brief writing
Understanding, synthesising and communicating project requirements in strategic and detailed briefs
Sustainability briefing
Application of sustainability workbook to create a framework for target setting and robust decision making
Establishment of Value Drivers
Using innovative industry tools to enable value-based project decisions, for transparency and rigour
Design strategies
Identifying areas where design strategies are required to ensure project compliance
Design risk mitigation
Provision of framework for early and ongoing design risk mitigation, defining priorities and reducing the potential for loss
Design review
Review of design work at key milestones; challenging, questioning and encouraging the highest quality project outcomes
Design evaluation
Independent evaluation of the design against briefing requirements at key stages
Benchmarking
Establishing a set of quality benchmarks and precedent projects to inform client decision making, with visits if necessary
Tender review
Impartial advice and an 'extra set of eyes' on consultant and contractor proposals