UTILITIES INFRASTRUCTURE & MASTERPLANNING

Hannan Associates has over 30 years experience of infrastructure appraisal, strategy, design and procurement. Our experience ranges from single buildings to large complex developments and City wide infrastructure appraisals.

We provide clients with strategic, procurement and cost advice for the utilities infrastructure required to support and enable these development sites. This includes the identification of the utility requirements, appraisal of the fulfilment options and procurement.

This is a key role in the master planning team and involves liaison and negotiation with the local utility companies and commercial operators in the ever changing utilities market.

As part of our role on the master planning team, we can also provide site wide advice on sustainability to assist with future developments and planning submissions for individual plots.

What is Utilities Infrastructure?

Infrastructure Consultancy services

Our Approach to Utilities

What is Utilities Infrastructure?

Utilities Infrastructure services generally refers to electricity, gas, water, sewage and communication services, all essential elements for creating a successful development site.

Often a soure of risk, early planning and engagement of site utilities is essential for establishing strategic direction for new development sites. This helps to future proof the site; ensures sufficient power supply; helps attracts occupiers; and helps to avoid delays and unneccesary costs.

Our Approach to Utilities

Our detailed knowledge and understanding of building operation and dynamics allows an accurate prediction of utility requirements and enables an approach which closely links building design parameters with the utility strategy. This is supported by an up to date awareness of the current utilities market and the procurement opportunities and processes that exist.

We adopt a risk aware approach to programming and delivery by the utility companies in advice provided at each stage of the project.

Our involvement includes site surveys, design and procurement of new infrastructure, upgrading existing infrastructure services and relocation of services.

Sector experience includes mixed use development, regeneration, workspace, industrial, leisure & stadia, residential and retail.

Our expertise includes on and off site renewable energy sources within the infrastructure strategy. We have considerable knowledge of appraisal, construction and operation of developments which incorporate renewable energy technology and sources. We also have experience of the preparation of information and negotiations leading to the sale / adoption of existing site wide networks to interested utility companies.

We have experience of both multi and single utility procurement methods in our infrastructure works. The choice of route is made on an individual development basis. Early offerings for multi utility services provision did not offer much improvement on the single route historically, but the multi utility market offerings have improved significantly in recent years.