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