Sector Expertise

Our portfolio of clients is extensive and spans a wide range of sectors. Our team of experienced consultants delivers strategic solutions and change programmes to support the business needs of clients across all sectors. As an independent professional property and management consultancy, we are able to provide impartial expertise and support to our clients which is sector specific and tailored to their individual needs. We place a significant emphasis on building strong relationships with our clients, with regular face-to-face meetings, essential for us to understand their needs and operations and provide proactive support on any property issue. We are considered the consultant partner of choice for many of our clients, with an excellent record of retention.

Our teams have experience of operating in a broad range of sectors and our expertise includes:

We understand the challenge of maintaining an operational school that is compliant, safe, fit for purpose and facilitates a positive learning environment.

Blending creativity, technical expertise and commercial acumen, we will ensure that your requirements are exceeded whilst paying close attention to your programme and budget at all times.

With over twenty years experience our knowledge and innovative approach can provide unique solutions that challenge the norm and create value.

Services include:

  • Funding Management

    Unlock funding opportunities to expand or improve your school

  • Design & Refurbishment
    Create more space through a new build, extension or refurbishment

  • Facilities Assessment
    Maximising operational effectiveness and efficiency through a service contract review
  • Property & Estates Consultancy
    Get the most from your building or estate through identifying rationalisation and development opportunities
  • Statutory compliance audit check
    Are you safe……Protect your pupils, staff and visitors

In an ever changing and challenging educational sector the need for a strategic property partner is essential to succeed.

Stratus9 can help navigate these challenges aligning property and curriculum needs with regional economic priorities. We can transform existing buildings to better spaces, rationalise property portfolios to generate savings and commercialise property assets maximising revenue.

Bringing a wealth of commercial experience and skills that will turn property requirements into a reality, meeting strategic objectives and overcoming challenges. Stratus9 know that every project is different. That’s why our solutions are tailored to specific needs, ensuring best practice from start to finish.

Services include:

  • Funding

    Maximise capital grants from skills funding and manage application processes from start to finish

  • Property strategy & master planning

    Identifying space rationalisation & development opportunities, providing conceptual proposals, urban design strategies and development frameworks

  • Architectural and landscape design

    Designing sustainable, quality environments that meet the needs of industry

  • Building and condition surveying

    Assessing the current construction and condition of buildings, preparing plans to address backlog maintenance

  • Statutory compliance audit check

    Are you safe……Protect your learners, staff and visitors

Stratus9 provide strategic and operational support to enable local authorities to deliver the required outcomes from their property estate, working flexibly as traditional consultants or providing capacity support working client side.

Developing and preparing an overarching property estates strategy can be essential in enabling our client’s goals and objectives. Our expertise provides unique opportunities for informed short and long term decision making such as asset rationalisation and backlog maintenance plans.

We understand the challenge of balancing budgets and maintaining the operational capability of a corporate property estate, whilst trying to reduce backlog & reactive maintenance and maintain statutory compliance. Our knowledge and experience provides our clients with a solution to maximise the effectiveness and efficiency of their property estate.

Services include:

  • Property estate strategies
  • Project delivery
  • Business case preparation
  • Service reviews
  • Backlog maintenance strategies and programmes
  • Statutory compliance audits, surveys and management
  • Building condition surveys
  • Preparation and delivery of capital maintenance program

Condition Improvement Funding 2020/21

Secure your funding

 

The 2019/20 round of Condition Improvement Funding saw £433 million successfully distributed to1,209 Academies delivering 1,412 discreet projects.

Our local team has unique experience and knowledge having worked for the Education Funding Agency to undertake the assessments of over 7000 Condition Improvement Fund applications. Through this, we know what good looks like and this knowledge ensures we have an unsurpassed success rate in applications on behalf of academies and sixth form colleges.

We have secured over £100 million of capital funding for academies and sixth form colleges in addition to successfully delivering the downstream projects. We work with your school from project inception and CIF application through to completion, ensuring effective and efficient use of budgets and programmes to achieve value for money and quality outcomes.

Our successful projects include –

  • Building fabric upgrades and replacements such as roof renewals, window and door replacements
  • Condition and health & safety issues such as fire remediation, asbestos removal, fire alarm & emergency lighting upgrades
  • Service upgrades such as heating pipework renewals and power & lighting upgrades
  • Refurbishment of teaching spaces such as science laboratories, technology classrooms and physical educational areas
  • Expansion projects to provide additional classrooms

Our health and safety team have a wealth of experience, technical knowledge and qualifications in a wide variety of sectors. We can fulfil the roles of Principal Designer, CDM Consultant and Health and Safety Advisor to assist clients, designers and contractors to discharge their duties and to ensure that all projects remain compliant with the latest regulations. Our experienced health and safety advisors are able to provide pro-active advice that enables clients to meet legal obligations and achieve objectives whilst protecting their interests.

Our services include:

  • Construction (Design & Management) Regulations 2015
  • Risk Assessments
  • Fire Risk Assessments
  • Principal Designer CDM

Stratus9 supports clients with a range of requirements in relation to historic buildings, including sympathetic extensions, internal refurbishment and maintenance.

We work sensitively to balance maintaining the authenticity of the original buildings with new improvements that can prolong their useful life ensuring the key conservation principles of minimum intervention and reversibility.

Our alterations are carefully planned and wherever possible utilise innovative techniques to ensure environmental considerations.

Our specialist services include:

  • Building Conservation Surveys
  • Design and Refurbishment