Strategic property consultancy
Where strategy meets delivery, creating opportunities from constraints
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Managing a health estate is a complex balancing act. Your healthcare system has many competing priorities including delivering high quality care, operational delivery, financial sustainability and a future-proofed flexible estate.
A successful estate strategy requires analysing and ordering these priorities to deploy resource in the best possible way.
At Archus, our approach unequivocally engages all priorities.
We support and empower you to make crucial decisions regarding the future of your estate – across critical infrastructure, backlog maintenance, operational management, sustainability, clinical service plans, changes in commissioning, national priorities and business objectives.
Strategic
- Estate strategy (SP and SA)
- Estate governance advisory
- Due diligence e.g. Asset transfers/Trust mergers
- Commercial reviews
- Asset management (SP and SA)
- Income assessment – 3rd party (car parking, hospital retail units etc)
- Funding solutions and capability
- Lease management
- Sustainability and decarbonisation (including monetisation) (SP/SA)
- Hybrid working strategy (SP and SA)
- Utilisation surveys (sensors or in-person)
- Benchmarking/strategic review of estate costs
- Acquisition and disposal strategy
Planning
- Options appraisal (SP and SA)
- Property and site searches (commercial, residential and specialist – e.g. clinical space search)
- Valuation
- Land value optimisation/site optimisation reviews
- Development appraisal (including independent reviews)
- Development feasibility
- Lease rationalisation planning
- Landlord & tenant advisory
- Space management
- Market intelligence
- Planning advisory (review of Local Authority planning policy, minor change of use applications etc)
Delivery
- Property management (Leasehold & Freehold)
- NHS Estatecode compliant transaction management (informed client)
- Lease negotiations (commercial, residential and health-specific)
- Building surveys (general condition, acquisition & specialist)
- Freehold and Leasehold Acquisition /Disposal Management
- Move Management (SP & PM)
- Rent Reviews
- Dilapidation / End of Lease Negotiations
- Service Charge Management
It was a pleasure to work with the Archus team where they provided professional expertise to our corporate accommodation review. Archus did not come with a ‘one size fits all’ approach but rather took the time to scope the work alongside us to ensure it fitted our needs as well as help establish a regular beat of progress meetings. There was a clear programme they were working to from day one which gave us the confidence we would get a high quality report on time. The briefings provided throughout were helpful and the wider industry insights added terrific value to our discussions. Very pleased to get a high quality report which the organisation can continue to utilise in our work going forward. A highly capable team and a pleasure to work with.
Richard Morgan-Evans, Chief of Staff, Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
My sincere thanks for a good well done, thanks to everyone who has made this happen in such a short time frame, huge effort!
Nick Fox, Deputy Director of Capital Projects and Estate Management, North Bristol NHS Trust
