Engagement & Consultation

Stakeholder and public engagement is a key part of project viability and effectiveness, and we use a range of methods to take all key people on an infrastructure planning journey with us. Core to our collaborative approach is to ensure that engagement and consultation is regarded as an ongoing conversation, not simply a one-off event or a tick-box exercise.

Conversation-led consultancy

Our success lies in effective engagement with our clients, communities and wider stakeholders, taking the time to understand their challenges, and more importantly, their future aspirations.

We engage on a human level, identifying local champions to work with us wherever possible. We can lead, organise and chair one-to-one meetings, workshops and public exhibitions and will work closely with clients to target communications for the area, project, community or specific stakeholder group.

We embrace digital methods, such as virtual room consultations, virtual reality fly-throughs, targeted social media campaigns, visualisations and interactive online reports/surveys to ease accessibility and understanding.

We always focus on people and end-users to ensure all views are heard and shape the solutions. This ensures a better chance of buy-in to the design process, and early identification of key issues.

David Wildman Technical Director

 

Together with our clients and the collective knowledge of our engineers, consultants and other specialists, we co-create solutions to address urbanisation, capture the power of digitalisation, and make our societies more sustainable.​ With international multi-disciplinary teams, we can call on the right insight and technical capability at the right time from across Buildings, Infrastructure, Advisory & Planning and Compliance.​