Strategic digital real estate consulting

We work with property investors, agents, occupiers or owners to ensure the effective management of their assets, from an individual building to entire property portfolios.

Our team is continually horizon-scanning to spot the incoming trends and to analyse how they will change the way we interact with our built environment and the impact these evolutions will have on our clients’ properties.

We continually ask what buildings are for in the digital 21^st century and, critically, what opportunities should our clients pursue amid the shifting sands of the digital property landscape? We can advise them on how emerging proptech can provide efficiencies around everything from planning and regulations to compliance and day-to-day asset management.

Our experts can support the creation of bespoke strategies for specific elements, such as digitising an estate or developing a sustainability-led strategy. Or work alongside clients to build a general corporate real estate roadmap focused on how they intend to use, invest and divest their property portfolio.

While our asset management consultants traditionally focus on supporting clients to optimise their existing buildings. Their expertise in digital tools and techniques can provide valuable insights at the design stage, helping guide asset management strategies on new building projects.

Digital solutions

Our specialist strategic real estate consultancy team uses a range of digital technologies for surveys and asset capture processes. The guidance provided to clients benefits from our ability to utilise technological expertise from across the wider business – ranging from digital information management through to digital twinning and smart controls technologies.

We work with clients to help them navigate, interrogate, and make sense of the data generated by their property portfolio and put this to practical use within the strategy for managing assets.

Deep knowledge

With over 45 years of expertise in the built environment, our consultants and advisors can draw on deep knowledge of buildings and how they operate to translate advice into action.

We can then help them roll out their strategies to implement and deliver the recommendations. We help to make the strategy come to life, supporting across a range of actions from operating model design through to people-based activities such as resource planning and training.

Our teams can also assist clients in measuring and monitoring solutions to ensure they are achieving the goals set out in their strategies – such as benchmarks around energy consumption or cost reductions.

Our asset consultancy experts work closely with colleagues from across Buro Happold’s wider multidisciplinary team to bring in a broad range of expertise to respond to specific challenges around individual portfolios.

We believe an ongoing relationship with our client allows our experts to provide more detailed and valuable advice over time. Our asset consultants have become trusted advisors for management teams in multinational corporations, offering detailed knowledge and recommendations for a client portfolio and future challenges and opportunities it may encounter.