Building Consultancy

Managing a building portfolio is a complex balancing act between controlling operational costs, enhancing user experience, delivering strategic projects, and meeting long-term sustainability goals. Without specialist oversight, opportunities are missed, inefficiencies become embedded, and costs can spiral.

LCMB’s Building Consultancy services provide the strategic insights and hands-on support you need to optimise every aspect of your estate. We act as a seamless extension of your team, applying our deep industry expertise to transform your facilities into high-performing, cost-effective, and sustainable assets that actively support your core business objectives.

Our Consultancy services

We develop actionable roadmaps, starting with a robust baseline of your carbon footprint (Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions) and setting realistic, affordable and implementable reduction targets. We can model the interventions required to decarbonise your buildings, infrastructure and organisation to comply with MEES regulations or deliver your Net Zero carbon targets. Our team can also offer the hands-on project management and implementation support to implement the measure reducing your energy use and carbon emissions.

Beyond the strategic roadmap, we provide the ongoing, hands-on management service to deliver continuous energy and carbon savings. This service is ideal for organisations needing specialist oversight to manage volatile energy prices and ensure your sustainability programme has the expert support it needs to succeed.

  • Opportunity and Feasibility Studies: We conduct in-depth audits to identify savings in your biggest areas of energy use such as lighting and Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning. We then build a compelling business investment case for each, detailing guaranteed ROI and payback periods.

  • Outsourced and Interim Energy Management:We can act as your dedicated Energy Manager, providing specialist advice and ensuring your sustainability programme has the expert oversight it needs to succeed.

  • Performance Monitoring and Stakeholder Reporting: We provide data-driven benchmarking and clear monthly or quarterly reports for key stakeholders, investigating high consumption and verifying the savings achieved.

Navigating the FM market to secure best value is a complex, high-stakes challenge. Our specialist procurement service de-risks the entire process, from market analysis and specification design to managing the complete tender process. We leverage data-driven benchmarks to ensure you not only achieve significant cost savings but also secure a service partner aligned with your strategic goals, all while ensuring full compliance with procurement regulations and your service requirements.

We provide strategic Facilities Management (FM) consultancy focused on maximising value and performance. Our experts offer independent, data-driven advice across your FM service lines and spend. This includes developing tailored FM strategies aligned with your business goals and implementing performance management frameworks to ensure service excellence and best value for money. We help you move from a reactive to a proactive FM model that enhances the workplace, manages risk, and optimises operational spend making your budget go further.

Our project management team ensures your building-related projects – from major plant replacements, EV and Solar PV installations and energy efficiency upgrades to office refurbishments – are delivered with precision and control. We manage every project stage, including initial feasibility studies and business case development, design and specification, contractor procurement, and diligent on-site management through to handover and post-handover operation and support. Our goal is to ensure your project delivers your objectives, is completed on time, within budget, and to your specification, all while minimising disruption to your day-to-day business and operations.

A modern workplace must do more than just house people; it must actively support productivity, wellbeing, and flexible hybrid working. However, many buildings are inefficient, with poorly utilised space and indoor environments that hinder performance.

Our service connects your physical estate directly to your business goals. We analyse how your space is actually used – leveraging occupancy, air quality, cost and energy data from our IQ Hub platform – to understand the real user experience and operational performance. From this, we deliver a clear plan? to optimise your layout, improve the indoor environment, and create a workplace that boosts employee performance and productivity, all while enhancing space efficiency and reducing operational costs.

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