Education & Community Services
Thinking Buildings deliver exciting and beautiful spaces for our clients. We offer a wide range of services to suit our client’s requirements to deliver the very highest quality projects; our services can be broadly categorised as follows:
• Architecture
• Masterplanning
• Interior Design
• Landscape Design
• Project Management
• Other Consultancy
The following services are provided by Thinking Buildings or by our reliable and trusted supply chain of consultants:
RIBA 0-1 Briefing & Site Assessment
- Brief taking & developing the client requirements
- Building & site analysis against BB103 requirements
- Financial & Cost Viability Assessments
- Arranging surveys of sites and/or buildings
- Appointing any other specialists
RIBA 2 Concept Design
- Feasibility studies
- Premises Development Plans (PDP), looking at ways to develop and expand based on the requirements highlighted in the BB103 analysis
- Master-planning studies
- Concept design proposals
- Low energy design
- Landscape design
- Sustainability & energy assessments
- Heritage Impact Assessments
- Transport Assessment
- Pre-planning Advice consultation & applications
- Budget costs
RIBA 3 Design Development
- Architectural building design
- Interior design
- Landscape design
- Planning drawings
- Design & Access Statement for planning applications
- Highways Impact Assessment reports for planning applications
- Listed Building Applications
- Heritage Impact Assessment Reports for planning applications
- Submission of planning applications
- 3D Building modelling, including 3D visualisations & animations
- Integrating information from other consultants, including ecology, flood risk etc.
- Detailed costs analysis and reports
RIBA 4 Technical Design
- Technical drawings for construction
- Discharging planning conditions prior to start on site
- Building Regulations drawings
- Building Regulations applications & compliance
- Low energy and sustainability assessment
- Passivhaus accreditation
- Advice on the procurement route & off site build methods/systems
- Coordination and project management of other consultants (Civil, structural, mechanical and electrical engineers, landscape etc.)
- Pre-construction Health & Safety Plan (a legal requirement)
- Cost report or Bill of Quantities
- Tender documentation
- Managing contractor tendering
Tender reporting & contractor selection
RIBA 5-6 Construction Phase
- Preparing the building contract
- Contract administration & management of the Building Contract
- Contractor’s Construction Phase Health & Safety Plan review
- Site visits & quality control
- Responding to contractor queries
- Project management for specialist installations, for example science labs, sports facilities, hygiene rooms etc.
- Soft landings management
- Practical Completion inspection and Certification
- Post-completion support during the defects period (usually 12 months)
- Post Occupancy Assessment & building user feedback
