STRATEGIC ESTATE PLANNING

Without an estates strategy, it’s very difficult to plan, prioritise or improve. 

We’ll work with you from the very beginning of your estate improvement journey – going back to basics and making sure you have a clear picture of the existing condition of your estate and how it impacts your staff and service delivery. 

We’ll then assess this against your strategic and operational priorities and help you understand how your estate can enable you to meet these goals. 

We’re experts in strategic planning, producing effective estates and infrastructure strategies and plans for organisations large and small across the healthcare, education and commercial sectors, and can call on more specialist advice from our wider team, depending on your specific priorities and challenges. 

FEASIBILITY STUDIES & OPTIONS APPRAISALS

Knowing what your options are is only the start. We can conduct feasibility studies and option appraisals so you can make decisions based on hard facts. Often, being close to a project can make it difficult to look at it objectively, so we can provide you with an independent look at the pros and cons of alternative ways of proceeding. 

As well as looking at whether a project is realistic to go ahead with, we can also provide advice on the impact your scheme will have on staff, patients and health inequalities, as well as practical considerations such as funding, building downtime and alignment to national and regional strategies.   

UTILISATION & CAPACITY ASSESSMENTS 

If you’re honest with yourself, are you really getting the most out of your estate?  

We can bring an external perspective to candidly assess the use of your current estate against your working practices and prepare plans for alternative working and service delivery models to make sure you improve utilisation.  

We’ll work with you to understand the capacity of your existing estate, benchmarking against sector-specific best practice and guidance.  

We’ll assess this against current and future demand levels, identifying any deficit or surplus, as well as looking at options for short-notice capacity-increasing methods to help you deal with surges in demand. 

BUSINESS CASE DEVELOPMENT

Developing a robust business case is vital in the race to secure resources when there is limited capital available. Outsourcing this can really assist you with focus and pace in the creation of your business cases, also providing you with an independent review, allowing your estates and service planning teams to put their energy into the operational job in hand.  

Over 60% of our team are qualified Better Business CaseTM practitioners, and with our experience spanning across multiple sectors such as health, education and local government, you know that when you work with us your proposal will have the best chance of succeeding. 

We’ll support you to manage and author a capital or service change business case that aligns with HM Treasury Green Book guidance, as well as any other relevant sector or organisation requirements.  

Most importantly, we’ll bring your stakeholders along with the process, because major projects that have the backing of all involved are the most likely to succeed. 

POLICY ALIGNMENT & INSIGHT

Our team is made up of experienced estates professionals who have worked at all levels of the public sector and can advise you on policy making, as well as compliance with national and regional strategy. 

We can help you create your own policies to align with your estates strategy, or we can give you insight into whether existing policies are fit for purpose. We’re in it for the long haul, so we’ll be there for you from planning right through to delivery. 

CAPITAL BIDS & PRIORITISATION

If you want to make major improvements to your estate, you need money. The funding landscape is complicated and difficult to navigate, so we’ll support you to identify, apply for and secure capital funding to deliver your estates ambitions.  

We’ll use HM Treasury Green Book best practice to give your project the best chance of securing financing, and project manage the production of any information required to support your application. 

We can also support with planning your capital pipeline; when you’ve got an extensive programme of improvement projects, it can be hard to know where to start.  

We’ll assist with the production of a methodology to allow you to prioritise competing investment requirements, helping you deliver actions in the correct order to fulfil your estate and strategic ambitions.