Guiding your vision from planning to delivery.

No, you don’t. Most clients start with one stage — usually feasibility (We Plan) — and decide whether to move into design once they have completed this stage. Single-stage engagements are scoped on fixed fee / percentage with a clear scope of work, and there’s no obligation to continue.

That said: the large majority (over 75%) of our single-stage clients do continue with us once they see the benefits of our coordinated approach.

Single-stage work is a fixed fee / percentage against a clear written scope/deliverable(s). For clients who are using us for more than one service payment schedules are agreed in advance with all our fees being transparent from the outset and in line with industry standards.

Not at all. Roughly 30% of projects come in at this point — consent in hand, design underdeveloped or no contractor yet. We pick up at detailed design and carry through to handover. We’ll usually do a short audit of the consented scheme first to flag anything that’ll cause a problem on site. We want to provide clients with the clarity of knowing where their project is up to and where we see any gaps from a risk perspective to ensure a successful project.

Both, deliberately – we are the Development Partner. Switch is a planning, design and construction practice operating under one company — the architects, planners, project managers and site team work collaboratively – not in silos. We act as Principal Designer and Principal Contractor on your project to ensure progress remains coordinated and your brief, budget and design remains coordinated – not segmented.

We set a realistic budget from the outset of the project, then we develop the design, create the detailed design and spec and then complete the tender process against this detailed design. This ensures all information is open and transparent showing the impact of choices/design decisions on your overall project budget. All our reports are open and transparent and the budget is reviewed alongside the programme, as part of our standard process. We don’t just say costs have gone up, we show alternative options that try to ensure budget alignment is retained.

We’re happy to share examples of our project reports and budget reports on our introduction call.