Urban and regional development

How do you maximise the socio-economic impact of your project? How can you effectively realise the regenerative and transformative benefits of your development? What’s the most effective way to win investment for your region? How can we change stranded assets to make them valuable and resilient for the future?

When a project demands the best possible sustainable, economic and social outcomes, Buro Happold doesn’t only understand the operational, strategic and business need of your asset…  we’re also fluent in the engineering behind it.

Ever-rising demands for economic, environmental and social sustainability call for fresh development thinking. Clients need strategies that satisfy today’s criteria while anticipating tomorrow’s challenges. A key challenge is making a development truly sustainable: this means making it economically, environmentally and socially sustainable and resilient. Operations must at the very least be efficient and positively impactful, but – critically – must also be practicably supported by deep engineering knowledge. Strategies must have resilience built in, so assets are never not beneficial to users, occupiers and communities, despite the inevitable urban changes and the new challenges they will bring.

As a global network of advisors, problem-solvers and technical experts, we have faced your most pressing development challenges multiple times before. And while this experience is, of course, invaluable, we never forget that circumstantial drivers make each development unique. We see and understand your most intricate and hyper-connected set of complex factors and assemble the most relevant advisory skills to address them.