Expertise
We deliver professional expertise across the entire property and construction lifecycle, from acquisition and development to maintenance, compliance, and disposal.
Advisory
Affordable Housing, Commercial Property, Community Use, Education, Healthcare, Industrial, Local and Central Government, Regeneration and Historic Conservation, Residential, Retail and Social Care sectors
We help achieve transformational change across built assets and related services. Our independent approach, combined with experience gained across diverse sectors, through our people and process driven tools, has enabled Ayer Associates to build a unique knowledge bank to provide the insights and intelligence to help clients make informed decisions.
We have the insights, intelligence, capability to improve service performance, increase capacity, optimise capital investment, mitigate risk and achieve operational efficiencies for clients.
We partner with clients to understand and optimise their property portfolios, assets and services. From daily operations to large-scale improvement programmes, we help eliminate inefficiency, reduce waste and enhance the performance of the built environment.
Building Surveying
Ayer Associates’ Building Surveying team is trusted by clients across the public and private sectors, including local authorities, housing associations, healthcare, education and major corporations, for their technical expertise across new build, renovation, conservation, maintenance and property matters..
With a proven experience across a range of public sector frameworks and direct appointments, our capability to support central government and government agencies across their property portfolios is well tested. Our experts are highly experienced at providing services for Real Estate management strategies, Hard FM and Soft FM service initiatives, FM service benchmarking and FM services procurement through to delivering change management/review programmes.
Employer’s Agent
Operating in both the public and private sectors, our highly experienced Employer’s Agents act as the conduit to deliver award-winning schemes for new-build and refurbishment projects.
Deployed at the earliest opportunity of the design phase, our specialist teams are well placed to outstrip our clients brief. Achieved through a collaborative and inclusive approach with all project stakeholders to ensure the project scope is viable and achievable within the cost framework.
No matter what the project requirements are, from pre-contract to post-contract or whole of life, when a project requires an employer’s agent, Ayer Associates will provide a bespoke service to meet your project brief to bring the right blend of value and quality for project completion.
Facilities Management Consultants
Open, transparent and trustworthy is who we are. Devising clean, safe and inspired workplace facilities management solutions is what we do.
We work with businesses, local authorities, architects, engineers and contractors to deliver workspaces and buildings that are safe, green, cost effective and great places to work.
Focusing on our client’s priorities we provide them with the knowledge and assurance that their property assets and equipment are managed efficiently and effectively, freeing up the time to focus on protecting the productivity and profitability of their core business.
Our expert advisors are highly experienced at facilities management strategies, Hard FM and Soft FM service initiatives and solutions, change management/review programs, relocation and moves projects, reactive and planned maintenance schedules, minor works or large-scale service improvement and facilities refurbishment projects.
Project Management
We don’t just manage.
The strength of our Project Management service is our capability to deliver value for money, mitigate risks, maintain safety, ensure quality and maximise investment – encompassing Strategy & Planning, Design & Procurement, Construction & Delivery through to Asset Management & Statutory Compilance.
Project management is at the core of what we do. We work with clients to understand their goals and manage projects from feasibility and concept through to construction and completion. Whether delivering new builds, Category A fit-outs, improvements or refurbishments, we provide independent project leadership, team collaboration or full turnkey delivery.
We believe we are industry leading in our approach, providing an emphasis on front loading project controls and definition with an early focus on risk and opportunity.
Risk Management
Helping identify, assess and protect clients, their people, property, projects and stakeholders from risk.
Risk comes in all forms and the built environment is no exception, facing a range of risks that can determine success or failure for all businesses in any environment. By working with Ayer Associates our clients gain clarity on risks to make informed decisions.
Working across the built environment on asset management, construction projects, environmental risk, health & safety, facilities management, property legislation and regulatory requirements, our risk management professionals provide the strategic advice to break down complex issues into practical straightforward solutions.
We work with clients to mitigate and manage risk by adopting a pro-active approach to identify, analyse, monitor and manage potential threats, risk and uncertainty as well as viewing such issues from the opposite direction and identifying opportunities at the same time.