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For many years the construction industry has struggled with complex technologies and how best to apply them to construction projects.  Within URS we have brought together key skills and technologies from across our business and integrated them into a simple to understand menu of services.  Our aim is to provide our clients with cost effective services that bring added value to their projects.

Our Digital Media Team is a market leader in all aspects of 3D modelling and visualisation, ranging from photo-montage production through to interactive models.  A particular specialism is real-time modelling, which allows the user to navigate at will around a highly accurate 3D environment.  The team is also able to advise and develop suitable methods of deployment including interactive, multimedia and web.

Over the past 25 years we have been involved in delivering solutions to the design process – using the latest systems within the industry to help reduce risk in construction and delivery.  We are now working with our clients to help them benefit from building information modelling (BIM).  This technology helps to improve the whole design process, making it faster and smarter.  It utilises our design expertise more effectively, achieving better lean construction methodologies and facilitating the delivery of sustainable projects with exceptional performance.

We also work with our clients to understand their asset management requirements, so that we can identify how BIM data can be employed more effectively in managing their asset throughout its lifecycle, whether it is a building or infrastructure.

At URS we are passionate about good design and it is at the heart of everything we do.

We measure the successful design of our projects against their usefulness, clarity, longevity, aesthetic, quality, functionality and innovation. We promote design that is accessible to all users, conscious of its context, flexible in its long term use, easy to maintain, environmentally responsible and a source of pride to those who commission and use it.

We are proud of our design achievements and awards to date and hope these few examples will show something of our commitment to good design.

URS is a leading consultant in the field of Ground Engineering, working throughout the world. Ground Engineering combines specialists in the following areas to investigate, assess and deliver solutions for ground-related risks on all forms of projects: 

• Geotechnical Engineering 
• Geoenvironmental Services including Contaminated Land Remediation
• Tunnelling and Underground Engineering
• Engineering Geology and Geohazards
• Ground Investigation

We deliver ground engineering solutions for rail and road projects, buildings and power schemes, contaminated land, airports, pipelines and reclamations, tunnels and caverns. We are also frequently called upon to provide expert opinion and advice.

Our highly qualified Ground Engineering specialists operate out of centres throughout the UK and internationally.

URS' experience in managing major projects draws on expertise from each of our market sectors and professional service streams to deliver our clients’ projects across the whole investment lifecycle.

The strength of our programme and project management service is underpinned by our profound understanding of technical issues that are of paramount importance in delivering major projects. Through this experience, we are able to offer our clients ‘knowledge based’ project management – we are not simply ‘process managers’.