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ikon Expertise

ikon recognises that the UK market for housing and regeneration has never been more challenging or complex. At the same time, housing provision continues to change, rapidly driven by a mixture of housing need, demographic change, new technologies and, perhaps most significant of all, in response to the challenges of global warming and the need to speed up housing supply. Housing has a higher profile than ever before and the opportunities for our clients have never been greater.

In response to this fast changing environment, ikon is developing a team of experts to ensure the consultancy can always bring added value and innovation to the approaches that our clients adopt. For example, the ikon team includes three former development directors of leading housing associations, offering more than 60 years of combined experience in the housing and regeneration sectors. The excellence and capability of our personnel is what sets ikon apart from the competition.

ikon expertise and credentials are as follows:

Provision of new business strategy and support

Our strengths are not just about delivering housing and regeneration projects. Our consultant team have all worked for many years at director level and know how to build growth strategies for the future, how to analyse markets and risk, and how to create a winning market position.

Competition for government housing and regeneration funding will only get more intense. Organisations without clear growth and neighbourhood development strategies will lose out to those who have.

ikon can construct and coordinate consortia across the private and public sectors, bringing developers, commercial bodies and housing associations together to identify new projects and manage bids.

We have considerable experience of creating bid-winning strategies and presentations for major projects. And when we win, we can help see projects through to successful completion.

For further information please contact nick.cook@ikonconsultancy.com

Acquisition and delivery of significant strategic projects

Our team has been involved in several of the most high profile, major regeneration schemes in London and the South East in recent years, working for a range of private and public sector clients. We offer particular strength in affordable housing development, including market-leading expertise in the intermediate housing sector. That experience benefits not just housing association clients, but residential and commercial developers and public bodies too. ikon also offers skilled advice to private and public clients in developing and generating value from the affordable aspects of projects.

For further information please contact nick.cook@ikonconsultancy.com

Deal brokerage of affordable housing developments

Because, at ikon, we understand affordable housing and the associated market, we can effectively broker deals between private sector and affordable housing providers. This means we can add value; moving from inception to agreement quickly and ensuring benefits are generated for all involved.

For further information please contact chris.cheeseman@ikonconsultancy.com

Excellence in project management

ikon project management team embody the attributes that characterise the practice: expert professionals, strong client focus and an understanding of the value of property. Part of the Watts Group of companies, ikon benefits from a multi-disciplinary environment. A wide network of offices in the UK and Europe provides rich sources of reference and cross-fertilisation of ideas, allowing us to deliver the client's brief in the fullest sense: effectively defining the scope of the project, agreeing targets, preparing a plan, pulling together the necessary resources and leading the team through the process to a successful conclusion.

For further information please contact alun.dawson@ikonconsultancy.com

Strategic cost consultancy

ikon's cost consultancy expertise has been founded on some of the most challenging and innovative schemes in the UK market. Our service embraces the modern cost consultancy agenda, based on generating value for our clients and formed from a strong understanding of modern building components, commercial acumen and a strategic role as part of the design team. ikon is able to offer its clients progressive cost management, employer's agent and project monitoring services throughout the UK and Ireland.

For further information please contact rob.sully@ikonconsultancy.com

Expertise in intermediate housing

Intermediate housing solutions for first time buyers are an increasingly important component in mixed-use regeneration projects. They complement wider approaches to sustainability by creating popular mixed-tenure and income communities. The ikon team offers market-leading expertise in the creation of socially sustainable communities and has a range of innovative approaches to offer. In addition, ikon can tailor specific advice and assistance for those involved in intermediate tenure provision, from business audits through to delivery of excellent customer-focussed internal processes.

For further information please contact chris.cheeseman@ikonconsultancy.com