Healthcare and life sciences

We can:

• Develop demand and capacity models to inform the development of service options and models of care.
• Reconfigure provision of clinical and support services or design service provision from new.
• Help meet clinical and operational requirements by applying our clinical advisory, engineering design and asset management capabilities.
• Model future healthcare demand and plan for advances in treatments and technologies to create solutions that are fit for the future, clinically and financially.
  
  

We can: 

• Develop clinical model documents to capture clinical activities to inform the design process for facilities.
• Create schedules of accommodation and adjacency diagrams to inform the design process for facilities.
• Support the design development process for new facilities to maintain the integrity of the clinical brief. 
  

We can: 

• Reconfigure and optimise the physical assets of healthcare providers for operational efficiency.
• Inform the development and evaluation of service options and provide the future direction of service delivery concepts to support feasibility studies and business cases for capital investment.
• Strengthen resilience, security and asset management, and plan for future adaptation to changing clinical practices, technologies or public health needs.
  

We can: 

• Provide multidisciplinary analysis and evidence-based guidance that helps clients evaluate the feasibility service and asset options to support business cases.
• Develop and refine the case for investment in transforming clinical models of care, improvement of existing assets or the creation of new facilities.
  

We can: 

• Provide multi-disciplinary technical advisory services to deliver a new healthcare facility from outline business case stage through to first patient date.
• Design, set up and implement programmatic delivery of healthcare facility portfolios with standardisation at the core.
• Align client, investor and stakeholder requirements and expectations to achieve intended project quality, cost and time outcomes.
• Set projects up for procurement, establish commercial arrangements and define performance metrics to achieve strong commercial project performance.
  

We can:

• Lead the multi-disciplinary design process to deliver efficient designs, pioneering the use of technology to provide the right environments for healthcare delivery and better patient outcomes.
• Achieve comprehensive and integrated solutions, from site-wide considerations to building details, spanning everything from specialised clinical and care facilities to transport, energy, environmental and climate resilience strategies.
• Deliver higher quality projects using BIM to enable better integration and coordination of multiple disciplines, aid communication with project stakeholders, provide a ‘single source of truth’ for the project delivery team.
• Employ industrialised design and construction – using standardisation and offsite manufacturing – to achieve step change improvements in build quality, safety, materials efficiency, carbon reduction, and cost and schedule predictability.
• Design for adaption to new healthcare and treatment technologies and changing patterns of disease, creating facilities with long service life, providing a greater return on investment and lasting social value.
  

We can: 

• Draw up a digital roadmap aligned with your operational objectives and translate it into action.
• Capture requirements and define specifications for the information systems at the core of patient and staff journeys.
• Develop digital capabilities and systems, taking a phased approach that enables investment in change in affordable increments, with time allowed for the benefits of each investment to be realised, building confidence to take the next step.
• Create the digital systems required for smart healthcare, enabling secure data collection and sharing – giving clinical and caring staff better access to the patient information they need, and driving efficiencies in day-to-day operations.
• Design smart buildings equipped with sensors that generate data giving facilities managers improved insight into building use, status and condition. 
  

We can:

• Understand and address the physical impacts of climate change from immediate requirements to future adaptation and consider the impacts on people’s health as well as on buildings and infrastructure.
• Identify, assess and prioritise risks and potential risk reduction solutions.
• Develop climate resilience strategies ranging from structural, facade and building services design to the provision of designated cool refuges in cities, with tree planting and green landscaping to reduce ambient temperatures.
• Respond to flood risk with solutions ranging from the construction of barriers or elevating buildings, through to relocating facilities from flood plains or working with stakeholders to address systemic causes of flooding.
  

We can:

• Set out a carbon reduction pathway aligned with climate science – we co-authored the world’s first zero carbon building standard for healthcare buildings, launched by NHS England in 2023.
• Achieve low carbon and net zero designs, from early stage optioneering, using digital solutions to highlight capital and operational carbon hot spots, and focus decision making to address them.
• Reduce construction carbon by working with contractors and suppliers to select materials and product specifications, and refine their choice of construction methodology.
• Use post-occupancy evaluations to identify operational carbon savings, working with your operations and facilities management teams to achieve them.
• Implement sustainable energy solutions on buildings and across estates – potentially including procurement from green energy suppliers, onsite renewable electricity generation and energy storage. 
  

We can:

• Improve efficiency, cut waste and enhance effectiveness by reviewing all operational aspects of healthcare provision and facilities management.
• Evaluate operational, functional, clinical and financial performance and develop approaches to optimise efficiency, effectiveness and efficacy of healthcare organisations.
• Reconfiguration of the estate to evolving healthcare needs, clinical practices and technologies, while minimising negative impacts for staff and patients.