Everyday infrastructure shapes our lives. We engineer streets, places and spaces to be more adaptable to the diverse needs of communities and responsive to the climate emergency.
Our work draws together the practicalities of utility infrastructure, sustainable drainage, flood risk and transport, but seeks to elevate infrastructure beyond the sum of its parts, creating pleasant and convivial places for people to be.
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Our structural engineering work shows our dedication to net-zero development, considering our impact on embodied and operational carbon at each stage of design.
This approach, coupled with a broad experience of sustainable building design, allows us to provide effective and elegant structural solutions that are practical to deliver.
Water sensitive urban design
The principles of water sensitive urban design draw nature into our built environment and are central to managing flood risk.
From large wetlands to pocket rain gardens, the placement of sustainable drainage systems help to build connections between habitats, filter out urban pollution and restore a richer biodiversity.
Active travel and healthy streets
Active travel and healthy streets are crucial parts of our response to the environmental, social and economic challenges facing communities, however even new street infrastructure can fail to reflect these priorities. Our detailed design and construction experience helps us to resolve the complex interfaces of street infrastructure through the whole design process.
Modern methods of construction
MMC is a broad term which covers a range of off-site manufacturing and on site techniques; significantly improving programme, cost and sustainability credentials of projects.
In our design process we consider the potential advantages early, in order to offer creative, practical, and sustainable solutions which may utilise MMC. This also provides flexibility in later project stages for procurement and build sequencing.
Careful use of materials
We assess the technical performance of buildings and infrastructure, considering buildability, material efficiency, and embodied carbon to ensure our schemes ‘tread lightly’ on the Earth. Further we consider buildings as material or carbon stores and explore opportunities to create a circular economy.
+ Utility infrastructure coordination: disconnections, diversions and new supplies
+ Vehicle swept path analysis
+ Pavement constructions
+ Earthworks and cut-fill analysis
+ Highways orders
+ Strategic input for masterplanning
+ Public realm, healthy streets and highway design
+ Street geometry, levels and setting out
+ Sustainable drainage design
Through RIBA Stages 1 - 5:
+ Structural scheme design
+ Design for modern methods of construction, DfMA, circular economy
+ Embodied carbon assessments
+ BIM
+ Site investigation scoping and analysis
For planning applications:
+ Flood risk assessment
+ Sustainable drainage statements
+ Utilities and foul water drainage statements