Commercial & Industrial
GSS offers a full range of services within the commercial and industrial sector, with previous projects ranging from the delivery of offices through to retail parks and full industrial facilities.
While often engaged as Employer’s Agent and Quantity Surveyors on these schemes, we can also bring added value by drawing on our other areas of expertise to assist clients with financial appraisals of the options available to them, ensuring that they are in a position to make informed decisions.
Many companies want to ‘make a statement’ with their office or headquarters building, and GSS have completed many prestigious buildings constructed from a wide variety of materials, from traditional stone-clad buildings to a glass-fronted office blocks.
Most often the strong management of the pre-development design process is instrumental in ensuring client satisfaction with the final outcome.
Sports, Leisure & Community
GSS have a wide range of expertise in the sport, leisure and community sectors, having delivered projects ranging from multi-million-pound sports and social buildings to hotel restoration, sports halls, all-weather pitches, social hubs, concert venues and community facilities.
Sports and leisure facilities can be complex by nature, especially with the increasing demands from legislation and the critical gaze of a discerning public requiring greater attention to detail if a successful outcome is to be achieved.
The integration of the design of the building and the multiplicity of internal systems which are required to achieve fitness for purpose and ensure public safety, require expert management and co-ordination of all members of the design and construction team.
GSS have extensive experience and procedures to make sure that all the various objectives are managed successfully in a friendly and professional manner.
Education
Education is a key sector for GSS and, as a result, we have delivered multi-million pounds worth of projects in this sector, ranging from nurseries and schools through to further and higher education institutions. The type of projects we have delivered vary greatly from smaller refurbishments to the development and delivery of new build masterplans, which have transformed campuses, the “student experience” and the environments in which they are located.
Our Project Management and Cost Management expertise is second to none and we have delivered a number of projects that are highly regarded. We believe that our role should extend beyond standard cost management, and should include developing an understanding of the strategic objectives of the establishment and the individual business case for each and every project. We invest considerable time with our clients to ensure that we understand their key drivers and utilise our expertise from across other sectors.
Residential
We provide professional advice to a large number of local authorities, registered providers and developers, assisting them with the development of private, affordable and rental residential schemes, as well as large one-off speculative schemes for private clients.
Through our combined experience and expertise in the residential sector, we also have an excellent understanding of the funding streams that are available and have delivered many projects that have been funded through the Homes and Communities Agency.
In addition, GSS have also acquired many years of experience in the higher education student residences sector and we provide our clients with robust, full cost management services, as well as project managing the entire scheme from feasibility through to post completion.
This is reinforced by the many schemes that we have undertaken for Oxford Brookes University, The University of Northampton and Moulton College, for example.
Healthcare
Wide-ranging changes are currently underway to modernize the UK Health Service, and NHS Trusts are facing fundamental changes to the procurement and delivery of healthcare. We recognise that, in the changing environment of the NHS and the demographics of an ageing population, it will be necessary to be innovative in the way that healthcare is delivered.
Trusts continue to focus on the delivery of high quality care, whilst also targeting operating efficiencies and responding to budget pressures, which, in many cases, is leading to the rationalisation of NHS estates.
As well as working with Trusts and large organisations to deliver strategic healthcare and P21 projects over the past 20 years, GSS has also developed a pedigree and reputation for successfully delivering smaller scale, complex remodelling and estates rationalisation projects, particularly in live clinical environments.
We offer substantial healthcare experience and support through our teams, whose expertise and ability in all aspects of healthcare building is both current and relevant.
Heritage
We have significant experience of advising our clients of the costs associated with repairing, conserving, altering and adding to historic buildings of varying ages ranging from medieval to twentieth century.
Projects vary from castles, churches, palaces, court houses, hospitals and schools to dwellings and changes of use.
We work with our clients to agree appropriate solutions to often complex requirements which, almost all, have to accommodate modern services and meet current living standards.
The works range from the very minimal, in the form of repairs to parts of the historic fabric, to multi-million-pound refurbishments with significant modern interventions.
Discussion with the various conservation bodies is a key part of the process and we have experience of dealing with many different authorities. Our Cost and Project Management services start with feasibility discussions and finish with completion of the construction work and beyond.