Expertise.

Sectors.

Education

Watts provide tailored advice and support to schools, academies, and the further and higher education institutions. We enjoy working closely with our clients to understand their estate, property, and statutory compliance challenges allowing them to focus on their pupils, students and staff in order to achieve a great education experience.

Teaching environments are evolving and developing at a rapid rate. Our advice is carefully considered as we understand the need to react promptly and appropriately to these drivers, whilst at the same time ensuring that the long term maintenance needs of the estate are known and accounted for within budgets.

Our education clients tell us that they like our positive, can-do attitude which, combined with advice and support that is based on many years of working on a wide range of education buildings, builds a trusted working relationship. Our experience ranges from Project Managing new build departments and student accommodation blocks, to estate-wide Condition Surveys and Planned Preventative Maintenance programmes. Our teams also regularly review statutory compliance documents and passive fire protection measures such as fire compartmentation.

Higher Education

Watts has a specialist education team which has led, reviewed, managed and supported numerous higher education programmes and projects. By working in partnership with our higher education clients, we have been able to both inform and transform the way that services are delivered to their customers and achieving a cost-efficient solution.

The team comprises building surveyors, project managers and cost consultants and operates throughout our network of offices.

Our comprehensive experience across all of the following aspects of the higher education estate life cycle enables Watts to provide an unrivalled service to this sector.

Our comprehensive experience across all of the following aspects of the higher education estate life cycle enables Watts to provide an unrivalled service to this sector.

  • Property acquisition
  • Refurbishment
  • Defect analysis
  • Planned maintenance
  • Space planning
  • Sustainability
  • Redevelopment

Independent schools

Watts has a strong track record of working with some of the country’s leading independent schools. Our clients tell us that they value our ability to quickly understand their specific objectives and to provide clear advice and suggestions on how best to achieve these. We understand that building management is complex, especially with the diverse property portfolio associated with independent schools.

Our tailored approach works in partnership with Senior management team, bursars and estate managers to deliver a comprehensive service that covers both the exiting estate and the design and construction of building projects. Our services include condition surveys and historic building surveys, compliance audits, fire compartmentation surveys, defects investigation and planned preventative maintenance. The combination of our experience in providing new developments and dealing with the existing estates places us in a good position to assist in advising and supporting you in the preparation and deliver of your estate strategy.

Schools

Watts has been supporting schools and their property needs for the last 50 years. We are experienced in providing bespoke advice and surveys to the Education Authority (EA), local authorities and senior management teams within the schools themselves. We have excellent experience in providing condition surveys for a variety of needs. Most recently our education team have been part of the survey team that are currently undertraining the national English national schools surveys on the behalf of the Education Funding Agency (EFA). Other services that our clients return to us for are planned preventative maintenance reports, compliance audits, building defects resolution and heritage building advise.

On a school level our team takes pride in understanding the specific challenges and needs of the individual schools. Whether this is to re-vitalise a sports changing room or to react quickly to a building fire and make the building safe and back in to operation as soon as possible our take are able to support and lead the process. Our national project management team are experienced in delivering not only these day to day schemes but also the larger extensions and new build block that form part of the wider estate strategy for the school.

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