Services

AIMS is responsive to the needs of the HE, FE,schools and public sectors. They offer website development and seo services. The company has long term experience of the issues which face large organisations with a significant amount of their capital and operating budgets tied up in assets and infrastructure in an ever evolving academic and commercial environment.

AIMS has worked with a wide range of organisations to develop transformation solutions, providing the independent thought process against which decisions can be taken.

AIMS systematically works with all the full range agencies and stakeholders which may affect the funding, planning approval and decision making process, including local authorities, neighbouring landowners, regional development agencies, local regeneration companies and English Partnerships.

AIMS supports its clients in the development of opportunities for mixed use developments and regeneration in areas of need, as well as new or established growth zones.

Estates Strategies and Master Planning

• Fitness for Purpose Reviews 

• Estate Audits

• Option Analysis

• Capital Investment Appraisals

• Estates Departmental reviews

• Urban design, masterplanning and transport planning

• Post occupancy evaluations

• Joint venture agreements/leasehold analysis

Financial

The Company can also offer access to up-front finance to:-

• Fund relocations and the costs of value enhancement

• Cover cost of strategic land purchases, planning applications, fees, landlord and tenant negotiations etc

• Fund option arrangements

• Finance joint-venture development programmes.

Planning

• Strategic client-side advice / representation

• Applications / appeals

• Development frameworks / LDF’s

• Spatial strategies

• Regeneration

• Design quality / Statements

• Sustainability appraisals

• Environmental assessments

• Urban design, masterplanning and transport planning

Space / Curriculum Analysis

• Strategic academic planning

• Space timetabling software analysis

• Space efficiency / capacity analysis and surveys

• Functionality reviews

• Operational Reviews / modeling space impacts

• Space briefing documents

AIMS Confidential

Using our expertise and experience, AIMS is able to offer a confidential service to its clients in areas of high commercial sensitivity. Lease terms, options, lock-out agreements, contractual issues, contract negotiation, departmental capabilities strategy all present risks and issues for large organisations. AIMS offers a confidential service to analyse and advise upon any of these issues either at pre-project stage or post hoc if there is concern about arrangements which have previously been entered into. The team has unrivalled experience in this area and strict confidentiality protocols and agreements in place. A number of institutions are currently benefiting from this service.