Case studies

Delivery experience behind the advice

Selected programmes demonstrating project leadership, assurance, recovery, governance, technical integration and handover across complex capital environments.

Client and project names are withheld to protect confidentiality. Examples reflect our founder’s experience in senior client-side and consultancy roles.

Illustrative diagram of a radiotherapy treatment vault structural and equipment interface, not the actual facility

Sector: Healthcare
Project: Specialist radiotherapy treatment centre, NHS teaching hospital
Founder's role: Client-side Project Manager
Capability: Programme recovery / integration assurance

Context: A highly complex clinical and technical programme combining deep basement construction with specialist high-energy treatment equipment procured directly by the NHS trust.
What was done: Challenged an unrealistic construction programme, drove resequencing and NEC-compliant milestones, and managed interfaces where equipment tolerances and radiation-protection requirements were critical.
Outcome / relevance: Programme was recovered to an agreed handover position while maintaining commercial engagement and protecting the integration path.

Illustrative diagram of the interface between a live clinical estate and an active construction zone, not the actual facility

Sector: Healthcare
Project: Major cancer centre, acute teaching hospital
Founder's role: Client-side Project Manager
Capability: Delivery assurance / stakeholder integration

Context: A major cancer treatment facility delivered within a live healthcare estate with legacy-information gaps, service tie-ins and third-party tenant requirements.
What was done: Coordinated clinical, FM, contractor and tenant interfaces; managed design-development/change tensions; protected operational requirements and programme.
Outcome / relevance: Facility opened on time and within budget.

Illustrative diagram of a governance reset and two-stage design and build procurement route, not the actual programme

Sector: Healthcare
Project: Specialist hospital relocation programme
Founder's role: Client-side project lead
Capability: Governance setup / procurement

Context: A major healthcare relocation programme inherited after an extended design competition, with weak governance, limited programme definition and misaligned stakeholder groups.
What was done: Established the PEP and governance structure, clarified information flows, assessed the design team and led two-stage design-and-build procurement through preferred-contractor selection.
Outcome / relevance: Created a controlled delivery platform ready for mobilisation.

Illustrative diagram of nested vibration, EM and thermal isolation envelopes for a precision measurement laboratory, not the actual facility

Sector: Science & Research
Project: Government research laboratory — high-sensitivity measurement facility
Founder's role: Project leadership
Capability: Technical delivery / recovery

Context: High-sensitivity measurement facilities with demanding vibration, infrasound and electromagnetic-isolation performance and international specialist interfaces.
What was done: Rebuilt design-team capability, coordinated specialist requirements, managed client leadership changes and contractor/commercial challenges through delivery.
Outcome / relevance: Required performance was achieved at handover for highly sensitive scientific use.

Sector: Public Estate
Project: Government department estate programme, including a flagship low-carbon office
Founder's role: Project Manager
Capability: Delivery recovery / live-estate coordination

Context: Complex government estate projects involving refurbishment, new build, decant, live operations, incomplete legacy information and changing phasing constraints.
What was done: Managed re-phasing, access, planning, FM interfaces, design gaps and soft-landings issues while maintaining delivery controls.
Outcome / relevance: The flagship office was completed on time and within the original budget, achieving BREEAM Excellent on completion and later BREEAM Outstanding, the scheme’s highest rating.

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Sector: Life Sciences
Project: Global pharmaceutical R&D / laboratory programme
Founder's role: Independent PMO / assurance adviser
Capability: Programme assurance / governance

Context: A complex laboratory fit-out requiring stronger governance, controls and client-side assurance through design, procurement, construction and handover.
What was done: Developed project controls, PEP/governance, change and risk controls, programme acceptance, technical decision routes and handover/operational-readiness oversight.
Outcome / relevance: Created a structured control environment and independent challenge around programme, technical decisions and readiness.

Illustrative diagram of a data centre commissioning test-level sequence from component testing to handover, not the actual programme

Sector: Data Centres
Project: Live data-centre commissioning & close-out
Founder's role: Project / programme assurance
Capability: Commissioning readiness / close-out

Context: Fast-moving live data-centre delivery with system testing, commissioning dependencies and handover dates requiring transparent weekly control.
What was done: Built activity trackers, critical-path and slippage reviews, testing/witnessing controls, close-out reporting and commissioning readiness views.
Outcome / relevance: Improved visibility of prerequisites, incomplete works, sequencing conflicts and handover risk.

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