Global Operations
From planning and design to specialty construction and facility management, URS’ internationally renowned facilities expertise covers a broad range of building types, including airport terminals, education and healthcare facilities, government buildings, retail outlets, manufacturing facilities, stadiums and arenas.
Our professionals use strategies that emphasise consensus building, successfully addressing the interests of multiple stakeholders while creating highly functional, aesthetically appealing, energy-efficient designs.
We are sensitive to the unique needs of each project, whether managing the historic preservation project of a courthouse, conducting the seismic retrofit of a mixed-use commercial development or designing a technologically advanced, sustainable education facility. URS-designed facilities provide lasting value to our clients, satisfying users’ and operators’ current demands and anticipating needs of the future.
For education facilities, URS understands the needs of our clients, and specialises in providing functional, versatile, inspirational and welcoming teaching spaces. Our creativity and expertise allow us to deliver award-winning buildings from nursery and primary schools, secondary schools and academies, through to further and higher education. Our cost-effective, sustainable designs and positive interaction with clients have led to established relationships with PFI/PPP partners and other leading educational authorities. This experience and flexibility means we can offer a totally integrated planning, architectural and engineering service, or contribute particular specialist services.
URS has decades of experience delivering projects to clients in the healthcare industry globally. We are fully engaged in the delivery of schemes funded through the UK Government promoted PFI, Procure21+ and LIFT Programmes, and have been involved in the design of many of the largest new hospitals. We aim to provide a total integrated project delivery service combining creativity, good space planning, and efficient integration of building services with buildability and cost effectiveness, while incorporating energy efficiency and sustainability as key targets. Throughout the design of healthcare facilities, including acute care, primary care centres and mental health facilities, we focus on the needs, well-being and comfort of patients and residents.