Commercial property & facilities management
One contractor accountable across a managed estate
Office buildings, mixed-use schemes and managed estates accumulate electrical, life-safety and renewable assets under a different contract for each. The building is the only thing holding them together.
We deliver and maintain those systems as one coordinated package — and hand back documentation that survives a change of managing agent.
- Environment
- Offices, mixed-use, estates
- Published work
- Edinburgh Quay 1 — £635,000
- Existing assets
- Commercial RCR from £295
What tends to go wrong
The estate is managed. The services are not.
Three recurring problems on buildings with several occupiers and several contractors.
- 01
The fit-out outlives its paperwork
Tenant alterations leave circuits unmapped, boards unlabelled and no record of who changed what. We survey and label what exists before adding to it.
- 02
Renewal is an evidence exercise
Insurers, auditors and prospective purchasers ask for testing, fire and renewable records together. Three contractors produce three partial answers.
- 03
Service charge spend is scrutinised
Landlords need maintenance and capital spend to be defensible line by line — not described as ongoing improvements with no record behind it.
Where the scopes meet
The electrical works and the renewable works are one conversation
On a managed building the technology is rarely the constraint. Who pays for it, who owns it and who answers when it fails is the constraint.
One contractor on both sides of that interface is the whole argument.
- 01
Rooftop generation
Electrical scope
Capacity at the intake, isolation, metering and the containment that carries the array's output to the building.
Renewable scope
PV sized against the landlord and tenant demand profile, with the generation split agreed before installation rather than after.
- 02
Car park charging
Electrical scope
Supply upgrade, containment, protection and load management at the point of connection.
Renewable scope
Charge points specified for dwell time and duty cycle, not for a headline number of sockets.
- 03
Lighting and controls
Electrical scope
Strip-out, re-cable and DALI commissioning across occupied floors.
Renewable scope
Metering that turns the reduced load into evidence at reporting and renewal time.
Relevant capability
The disciplines that come up here
Not every service is relevant to every environment. These are the ones that decide the outcome in this one.
Commercial electrical
The installation is fine. The evidence is missing. Distribution boards are not labelled to match the drawings, circuit schedules do not reflect what was actually installed, and the next contractor inherits a building nobody can trace.
Explore capabilityCommercial solar PV
Most commercial solar proposals are built on generating more than the site can consume, at a yield borrowed from the south of England, with an export rate that assumes the best available tariff.
Explore capabilityFire, security & data
When fire, security and data are separate contracts, coordination becomes someone else's problem. Ceiling space is contested, risers are filled in the wrong order, and commissioning dates slip against each other.
Explore capabilityMaintenance & compliance
Testing may be happening. The evidence often is not in a state anyone can use. Certificates sit in a folder, remedial actions are quoted but not prioritised, and the next duty holder inherits a list with no dates against it.
Explore capability
Existing assets
Inherited systems still need an owner
Most managed buildings arrive with equipment nobody holds documentation for — and a managing agent who inherited it along with the building.
Commercial RCR — from £295 + VATCondition reporting on solar PV, battery storage and EV charging, including assets installed by another contractor.
Findings aligned to service charge, insurance renewal and forward maintenance planning.
Portfolio reporting so each site can be compared on the same basis.
Evidence
Delivered in this environment
Delivered in phases across an occupied office building, with the specification challenged before order rather than priced as drawn.
Commercial property & FM
Tell us about the estate, not just the job
The building, the occupiers and the contract structure decide the answer. Send what you have and we will tell you what is missing.