Design
Engineering every opportunity to elevate people, buildings and energy.
Designing better buildings, energy systems and places.
The way we generate, distribute and use energy is changing. Buildings and infrastructure need to respond with systems that are lower carbon, more efficient, more resilient and designed around the people who use them.
At Elevate, we bring together engineering, building performance and energy expertise to help clients design practical solutions across People + Buildings + Energy.
From early stage thinking to detailed design, commissioning and operation.
Our engineering team delivers mechanical, electrical, public health and energy infrastructure design across the built environment.
We work from feasibility and concept design through detailed engineering, technical assurance, commissioning and optimisation, helping clients improve building performance, decarbonise existing assets and deliver new low carbon energy infrastructure.
From individual buildings to district scale heat networks, our focus is simple: engineering solutions that work in practice and perform over the long term.
People
Engineering with community and wellbeing at the core
Good engineering should be felt by the people who use it. We design and assure building services around comfort, accessibility, usability and reliable performance, considering how systems operate at the point where people actually interact with them.
From individual homes to major public buildings, our approach helps bridge the gap between technical design and the everyday experience of residents, occupants and building operators.
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Occupant & Tenant Requirements
Understanding how people use buildings and translating those requirements into practical engineering solutions.Thermal Comfort & Overheating
Assessing internal environments and developing strategies that support year round comfort and resilience.Accessibility & Inclusive Design Advice
Reviewing buildings and proposed designs to identify opportunities to improve accessibility and usability.Dwelling Level Acceptance Testing
Physical validation of apartment heating systems, controls and individual endpoints before developer handover.Heat Network Consumer Interfaces
Reviewing HIUs, controls, metering and dwelling interfaces to help ensure communal heating systems perform effectively for end users.Commissioning & Witnessing
Independent witnessing and verification to confirm building services operate as designed before acceptance and occupation.Indoor Environmental Quality
Considering air quality, temperature, ventilation and other environmental factors that influence occupant wellbeing.Handover & Operational Readiness
Helping ensure systems are understandable, maintainable and ready for effective operation following project completion.
Buildings
Resilient design that gives more than it takes
We design mechanical, electrical and public health systems that make buildings perform better.
Our engineers work across new build, refurbishment and decarbonisation projects, taking projects from early concept through detailed design, construction, commissioning and handover. We combine conventional building services engineering with energy modelling, digital tools and low carbon technologies to create practical, coordinated and buildable solutions.
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Detailed MEP Engineering, RIBA Stages 1 to 4
Mechanical, electrical and public health design from initial concept through to coordinated, construction ready information.Building Services Decarbonisation
Designing practical pathways away from fossil fuel systems through heat pumps, electrification, system optimisation and fabric informed solutions.Heating & Cooling System Design
Design of low temperature heating, cooling, ventilation and domestic hot water systems for new and existing buildings.Heat Pump Integration
Engineering air source, ground source and water source heat pump systems and integrating them effectively with existing and new building services.Electrical Engineering & Power Infrastructure
Design of electrical building services and associated power infrastructure to support increasingly electrified buildings.Building Performance Modelling
Using tools including IES to test building performance, energy demand, thermal comfort and proposed design strategies.Hydraulic Modelling & Digital Engineering
Using tools including Hysopt to understand system behaviour, test design decisions and optimise heating and cooling systems before implementation.MEP Surveys & Condition Assessments
Assessing existing plant and infrastructure to inform refurbishment, replacement and decarbonisation strategies.Plant Replacement & Retrofit Design
Developing coordinated solutions for ageing, inefficient or unsuitable building services equipment.BIM & Coordinated Design
Developing coordinated building services information to support integration between architectural, structural and engineering disciplines.Site Supervision & Technical Assurance
Independent review of installation quality and compliance with design requirements during construction.Commissioning & Witnessing
Reviewing commissioning strategies, witnessing testing and independently validating system performance prior to handover.
Energy
Infrastructure that powers sustainable futures
Elevate specialises in the design, development and optimisation of heat networks and low carbon energy infrastructure.
We work from the earliest stages of network planning and feasibility through detailed engineering, construction and operational optimisation. Our experience spans energy centres, district distribution networks, substations, heat pumps, waste heat recovery and the interfaces connecting networks to individual buildings.
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Heat Network Zoning & Masterplanning
Early stage assessment of heat network opportunities, including anchor load identification, network routing, demand assessment and initial feasibility.Techno Economic Modelling
Developing feasibility studies and commercial business cases to test technical and economic viability and support projects towards investment and market delivery.District Heat Network Design
Design of district heating infrastructure including network routes, distribution pipework, substations, building connections and associated systems.Energy Centre Design, RIBA Stages 1 to 4
Mechanical and electrical design of new and refurbished energy centres from concept through to detailed design.Heat Pumps & Low Grade Heat Recovery
Engineering large scale water source, air source and ground source heat pump systems alongside ambient and fifth generation district heating and cooling networks.Waste Heat Recovery
Identifying and engineering opportunities to capture low grade heat from sources including data centres, transport infrastructure, rivers, sewers and other urban or industrial processes.Hydraulic & Thermal Modelling
Using tools including Hysopt to model network hydraulics, temperatures, loads, diversity, controls and system interactions.Substation & Building Connection Design
Designing the interfaces between district networks and individual buildings, including substations, heat exchangers and associated controls.Thermal Storage & System Integration
Integrating thermal storage, heat pumps, conventional plant and other technologies to improve system flexibility and performance.Renewable Power & Energy Integration
Integrating technologies including solar PV, battery storage and electrical infrastructure alongside heating and cooling systems.Regulatory & Technical Compliance
Supporting heat networks against current regulatory requirements and recognised technical standards, including CIBSE CP1 and emerging HNTAS requirements.Heat Network Technical Assurance
Independent technical review of network design, installation, commissioning and performance to identify risk before systems enter operation.Commissioning & Integrated Systems Testing
Developing and reviewing commissioning strategies and independently witnessing the interaction between energy centres, networks, substations, controls and connected buildings.Network Optimisation
Auditing existing heat networks to identify hydraulic, controls, temperature and operational issues and develop practical interventions to improve performance.Heat Network Guardian Roles
Providing technical oversight and guidance to clients on new and upgrade works. Responsibilities include; design and peer reviews, onsite installation monitoring, compliance and opitmisation, and post occupancy verification works.