Our Design for Management service supports you through development and refurbishment projects, ensuring schemes are designed to be efficiently managed, aligned with your vision, and smoothly mobilised into full operational management at the required service charge level from day one of operation.

Our proven model brings together experts in property management, sustainability, customer experience, building surveying, engineering, placemaking, and building technology. Working alongside your design team, we apply a dedicated property management lens to every decision; suitable for all use classes, from FRI to multi-let conversions and common area redesigns, to repurposing of shopping centres, major new developments and regeneration projects.

Our early involvement informs design decisions that directly affect functionality, operational efficiency, and long-term cost-effectiveness: avoiding expensive retrofitting, service charge recoverability issues and operational shortfalls, while protecting exit strategies and asset value.

Beyond design input, we manage the complete mobilisation process from construction handover through to day-one operations. This includes establishing the management structure and service charge framework, appointing consultants and suppliers, drafting operational strategies, reviewing energy systems and cost recovery mechanisms, contributing to set‑up and void-cost modelling, and onboarding occupiers. We make certain that all systems, processes and documentation are in place – leading to a frictionless soft landing into full management.