Everyday infrastructure shapes our lives. We engineer streets, places and spaces to be more responsive to the diverse needs of communities and resilient to a changing climate. Our civil engineering capabilities span three key areas of infrastructure design: streets; sustainable drainage; and utility infrastructure coordination.
We are strong advocates for active travel and healthy streets, with the experience required to resolve the tensions that can emerge between design ambitions and the practicalities of construction. We also have deep expertise in water-sensitive urban design, with landscape considerations guiding our approach to the management of surface water.
Structural engineering
Our structures practice is guided by the imperative to provide effective and elegant structural solutions that are both practical to deliver and environmentally sound.
We have extensive experience of sustainable building design and the way we work reflects our dedication to net-zero development, considering a building’s impact on embodied and operational carbon at each design stage. We balance this with careful assessments of buildability, material efficiency and the potential to utilise modern methods of construction.
Strategic infrastructure masterplanning
It is through urban infrastructure that we can realise many of our policy ambitions and urban development needs. We support public bodies to prepare strategic plans for growth and regeneration, reflecting the importance of infrastructure in local economic development. Through a combination of creative placemaking vision and practical experience we help to shape plans for the inclusive development of cities, regions and communities.
We are proud to have led infrastructure masterplanning for some of London’s largest and most strategically-important regeneration schemes, including Meridian Water in the London Borough of Enfield, and Charlton Riverside in the Royal Borough of Greenwich. Our work maps the strategic infrastructure needed to unlock major development, and supports business cases and funding applications.
Policy-focused research on the built environment
Better design and urban planning, which truly meets the needs of communities and our environmental objectives, hinges on well-informed policy at the local and national levels. We produce research to support evidence-informed policymaking on the built environment, drawing on both our practical experience as engineers and high-quality empirical evidence. We have a particular interest in how the delivery of urban infrastructure can help us realise wider policy ambitions, including around community, active travel, urban greening and climate change.
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