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Commercial Offices.
Refurbishment, plant upgrades
and ongoing M&E advisory.

A mixed commercial-office portfolio covering refurbishment design for the private-sector developer market and a long-tenured public-sector advisory and maintenance-audit programme — capital plant upgrades, technical review, and ongoing consultancy across a full office estate.

Sector
Commercial offices — private & public sector
Services Provided
Refurbishment MEP design, capital plant upgrades, maintenance auditing, ongoing consultancy
Combined recent value
£11m refurb (Frances Grove) · £1.5m plant upgrades (FY 25/26 public sector)
RIBA Stage range
Stages 2–7 across the portfolio
Status
Mixed — live design + ongoing audit programme
Tenure
Incumbent consultant on the public-sector portfolio
/ Portfolio

A working
office portfolio,
two ends of the
market.

[Directors to rewrite naturally. The commercial office portfolio spans two very different appointments: a single named refurbishment scheme for a private-sector developer client, and a long-tenured advisory and maintenance-audit programme across a major public-sector office estate.]

[Continuation — what the two ends of the market share: a need for M&E consultancy that respects the building actually being in use, that understands the difference between specifying capital works and getting them through the operational year, and that can sit in a long-term advisory relationship rather than a single-job appointment.]

[Continuation — what they don't share: the refurbishment commercial pulls a Stage 3 design effort, the public-sector estate pulls a capital planning + ongoing audit cadence. Prana's director-led model is comfortable in both registers because the same person is on the work either way.]

/ Selected schemes within the portfolio

Work delivered
and ongoing
across the offices.

Private Sector · Mixed-Use Refurbishment

1–4 Frances Grove — Mixed-Use Refurbishment & Vertical Extension

Full M&E design for the refurbishment and vertical extension of a £11m commercial scheme in Manchester for Praxis Real Estate. RIBA Stage 3, designed against the existing fabric and structure with services routing strategies that respect the building's heritage character while delivering current-spec ventilation, comfort cooling, lighting and electrical infrastructure.

£11m
Praxis Real Estate
Public Sector · Capital Plant Upgrades

Public-Sector Office Estate — Plant Upgrade Programme

£1.5m of capital plant upgrade design and oversight across the FY 2025/26 programme for an undisclosed public-sector client's office estate. Strategic HVAC plant replacement, communications-room AC upgrades, and the wider planned-replacement programme that follows from the multi-year condition-survey work.

£1.5m FY 25/26
Public sector (confidential)
Public Sector · Audit & Advisory

Mechanical Maintenance Contract Monitoring & Auditing

Ongoing monthly consultancy, auditing and management of the HEVAC maintenance contract serving the public-sector office estate. Spec compliance evidence, contractor scoring, escalation routing, and the technical advice that the maintenance contractor and the client both lean on.

Ongoing
2023–2026 +
Public Sector · Strategic Reports

Capital Replacement & Compliance Strategy Reports

Development of multi-year HVAC replacement proposals and estate-wide compliance reviews across the public-sector office portfolio — large-asset HQ replacements, force-wide HVAC strategy, fire-damper compliance, and the technical authoring of multi-lot maintenance tenders.

Multi-year
£4m+ developed
/ Confidentiality

Public-sector work,
handled with
the right discretion.

[Directors to rewrite naturally. Public-sector clients often prefer not to be named in marketing material — particularly where the work involves life-safety systems, building security, or estate-wide capital planning. Prana respects that.]

[Continuation — what we can talk about, what we can't, and what the audit relationship demonstrates about Prana's fit for similar public-sector office portfolios. The work is referenceable confidentially for prospective clients who need to know we've handled this scale before.]