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Revive brings cost, programme, planning risk and sustainability into one integrated view, so you can commit with confidence.
Built in early, grounded in a viable, fundable plan.
Feeling the squeeze to move a scheme forward with confidence?
- Projects stall when the early picture is fragmented, with cost, programme, planning risk and performance requirements split across multiple parties.
- Assumptions stay implicit until late, when redesign, delay and abortive spend are hardest to avoid.
- Revive brings that early picture into one integrated view, so teams can commit with confidence.
- With Revive, you get an integrated commercial view early, then the right specialists brought in at the right time. Sustainability is built in as part of the plan, not bolted on at the end.
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Say goodbye to disconnected advice and multiple points of control.
Say hello to one integrated lead view, with the right specialists brought in only when needed, and only when the decision warrants it.
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We work with developers, investors and project teams who need early clarity, not more complexity.
Make confident calls on planned or existing buildings, with minimum disruption and a clear route to delivery.
- Connect the gap between strategic intent, asset constraints, and what the scheme can realistically deliver.
- Free up internal time by clarifying what matters now, and what can wait
- Understand the cost, programme and operational implications of options
- Make sense of ratings and standards without letting them drive the brief
- Put monitoring in place once action is underway
- Improve workplace performance and occupant outcomes as part of the commercial plan
Move from ambition to a decision-ready plan, early.
Revive brings cost, programme, planning risk and sustainability into one integrated view, so you can commit with confidence and protect value.
- Clarify whether to proceed, pause, or reshape before fees and redesign stack up
Reduce stranded-asset risk by grounding performance goals in a viable route
Strengthen the brief so design and procurement effort lands first time
Set up the right specialist inputs only when needed, with clear accountability
Make sense of ratings and standards without letting them derail the commercial logic
Put measurement and performance monitoring in place once action is underway
Make workplace upgrades viable, deliverable, and aligned to how you operate.
Revive helps occupiers and their teams turn performance and wellbeing goals into a practical, costed and deliverable plan.
- Prioritised options that balance performance, wellbeing, disruption and cost
Clear costs, benefits, and delivery implications of interventions
Practical routes that work with your lease position and landlord relationship
Support for business cases, internal approvals, and landlord negotiations
Clarity on standards and accreditations where they genuinely matter
Reduced internal burden through a single integrated picture and next step
Strengthen your client’s brief and de-risk the early commercial picture.
Revive partners with architects, planners, PMs and agents to help clients make confident early decisions, then move forward on a brief that holds.
- Convert client objectives into a decision-ready viability and delivery view
A clear steer on proceed, pause, reshape, or proceed only if issues are addressed
Inputs that protect design momentum by reducing late-stage churn
Integration with the project team, with clear scope, outputs and accountability
Sustainability treated as a core requirement, grounded in viable assumptions
A clean next step into a paid snapshot or early audit where it is warranted
Initial Decision Check
A short 1:1 diagnostic to confirm the right next move
In a brief call, Revive will sense-check the scheme and give a clear steer: proceed, pause, reshape the brief, or proceed only if specific issues are addressed.
Clear decision steer.
Assumptions that need locking down.
Early commercial and delivery risks.
One next step, if it is worth it.
Best practice examples courtesy of UKGBC
See simple pathways towards improved performance.
Example
Pall Mall, Manchester
Deep retrofit approach to reduce energy demand and improve lettability, following a period of vacancy.
Material reduction in energy intensity
Upgrade to modern heat and ventilation solutions
Improved occupier appeal
Example
1 & 2 Stephen Street, London
Phased retrofit strategy to balance mixed-use constraints with performance goals.
Phased light and deep retrofit approach
Transition from gas to heat pumps
Retained structure to reduce embodied carbon and improve space quality
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