Global Operations
URS provides programme management, planning, engineering, architectural design, and environmental and construction phase services to a wide range of commercial clients, including:
- Private education providers
- Retailers
- Hotels, sports and entertainment facilities
- Commercial real estate companies and developers
- Private healthcare facilities
- Financial institutions
- Private transportation, including airline, freight and rail companies
- Private water and wastewater utilities
- Waste management companies
Our engineers and architects design visually appealing, stylish and contemporary retail mixed-use commercial developments. Our designs are both aesthetic and logistical and incorporate building physics techniques giving a lifelong, energy-efficient structure. We also offer a wide range of planning, geo- and socio-environmental and engineering skills that support all activity throughout the property development cycle.
We implement innovations in space and servicing requirements to find sustainable and affordable solutions. Whether it’s a retail park, office development or an urban shopping centre, we offer the full range of design services—from land acquisition, site infrastructure and transportation planning to structural design and pedestrian modelling.
URS designs high-performance, sustainable green buildings that use energy, water and other resources efficiently and reduce the overall environmental impact. Many of these buildings meet BREEAM and LEED standards, widely acknowledged as best practice in sustainable development. We also provide property condition surveys, architectural design and historic preservation services for landmark, historical and listed buildings.
We specialise in conducting environmental and technical due diligence for the acquisition and divestiture of commercial real estate, ranging from vacant plots to office buildings and shopping centres. Our services include site assessments to address environmental concerns and the design and implementation of remediation programmes to clean up soil and groundwater. We also provide geotechnical and site civil engineering for brownfield site redevelopment and greenfield site development.