Services

Sustainability

Through the use of multi-disciplinary teams we work with our clients to identify real, tangible opportunities to drive sustainable goals. These are typically delivered through the identification of holistic Asset Management Strategies which reduce Operations and Maintenance Requirements as well as ‘sweating the asset’ techniques, which minimise the need for new builds with the associated carbon impacts.

We also have a strong Nature Based Solutions Team of geomorphologists and hydrogeologists who drive the identification of soft engineering, environmental enhancing solutions.

Planning and Consenting

Our advisors have in-depth experience supporting the Environment Agency, Local Authorities and Risk Management Authorities to deliver Flood Risk Assessments, Consenting and Planning activities. Our ability to tailor our inputs allow us to provide valuable advice for all types of schemes.

Our advisors have a strong track record supporting clients to deliver a variety of schemes, ranging from small asset repairs where minimal EIA and Consenting inputs are required, to very large scale infrastructure schemes such as HS2 and the 130Km Fens Bank Raising Scheme where complex planning, consenting and EIA issues must be interweaved within the technical delivery.

Stakeholder Engagement Services

The success or failure of a project often depends on how key messages are communicated and stakeholders engaged. We have a wide range of experienced professionals with excellent track records supporting a variety of clients to deliver complex multi-disciplinary, multi-stakeholder schemes.

In order to provide tailored, high-quality services we only deliver stakeholder engagement services in the Water and Environment Sector where our advisors have in-depth understanding of the technical aspects of project delivery and of the key stakeholders involved and what their key drivers are. This allows us to identify potential 'crisis points' and implement bespoke engagement strategies early on.

Finally, we are at the forefront of technological advances and have successfully made good use of innovative engagement platforms such as Engagement HQ and more recently Citizen Space.

Asset Management, Operations & Engineering

The typical scheme delievered in the UK has significantly changed over the past 20 years, from large capital ones to asset maintenance and repair ones. This means changing the approach to project delivery to an Asset Management driven one, where the assessment parameters change to include maintenance, carbon and sustainability as well as challenging the function and need for a specific asset.

Our advisors have the required breadth and depth of knowledge and experience to help clients navigate through this changing approach, creating bespoke, low maintenance solutions, which consider clients' typical struggle with budgets and resources. By embracing a holistic approach which calls into question regulatory, hydraulic, technical aspects we are able to support our clients identify and implement optimal, future-proof solutions.

Through the use of our team of Chartered Civil and Mechanical Engineers, we are able to advise our clients on how to best engage with the supply chain, managing the apportionment of liabilities effectively, and ensuring clients are discharging their CDM obligations in accordance to current H&S legislation.