Graduate Asset Consultant
From helping shape entire cities to adapting infrastructure to deal with the climate emergency, a career at Buro Happold presents the chance to make a difference. This opportunity is to join our Asset Consultancy team in our London or Bath office.
What is Asset Consultancy?
Asset Consultancy is a specialist area of practice that works directly with building owners, real estate investors, asset managers and occupiers to help them get the best performance and value from their built assets. We provide practical property and engineering advice that helps clients improve building performance, manage risk and control operational costs across their portfolios.
Our work spans the full building lifecycle and includes Building Surveying, engineering diagnostics, facilities management consultancy and project management. We help clients understand the condition and performance of their assets, identify opportunities for improvement, and develop strategies that support both immediate needs and long-term objectives.
A key part of our approach is understanding the commercial drivers behind every project. We work closely with clients to understand how their buildings support their business operations and future ambitions. By taking an end-user perspective and putting ourselves in our clients' shoes, we are able to provide pragmatic, commercially focused advice that balances cost, performance and risk to deliver tangible outcomes.
As a graduate, you'll gain exposure to a broad range of clients, sectors and projects, developing both technical and commercial skills while working alongside specialists from across Buro Happold's multidisciplinary teams.
To learn more about our Asset Consultancy services and team, please click here.
What sort of projects would I work on?
Natural History Museum – London, UK
Royal National Institute for the Blind – London, UK
What degree would I be studying?
We welcome people into our team with a broad range of experience. However for this particular opening, we would be very keen to hear from students who have studied (or still studying) one of the following degrees;
- Building Surveying
- Electrical Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
What would I do?
Assist with practical site-based activities as part of the asset consulting core delivery team. Examples of such activities include the following:
- Undertake inspections of existing buildings and assets.
- Work as part of a team to identify and solve engineering, property and construction-related challenges.
- Document findings using industry-recognised software and digital tools.
- Develop asset information and lifecycle analyses.
- Carry out building condition and defect surveys across a diverse portfolio of projects.
- Contribute to the development of specifications, scopes of work and design packages.
- Support the planning, coordination and delivery of surveying and asset improvement projects.
- Represent Buro Happold at meetings with clients, consultants, contractors and suppliers, supported by senior team members.
- Contribute to service and design decisions that achieve project and client objectives.
- Keep senior team members informed of key project developments and decisions to support successful project delivery.
Graduates at Buro Happold
When you join Buro Happold you are embedded into an exciting network of engineers and consultants, that supports your career development. We have a Graduate Connect learning programme that targets specific learning and supports your journey to chartership as well as our Young Employee's Forum that links all our young talent in terms of knowledge sharing, learning and very importantly socialising.
We place great importance on a having a safe and inclusive environment and will seek to make any arrangements that may be required to enable all who work with us to thrive. We have flexible working hours and hybrid working, and welcome applications from all backgrounds and walks of life. If you have any questions about how this could apply to your specific circumstances, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us.
Application Process
Please submit your application and supporting statement (i.e. cover letter), preferably in PDF format. Within your supporting statement we would like you to highlight what has interested in you Asset Consulting and any relevant skills or knowledge you have of the discipline (this can be practical experience, university modules/projects or something extra-curricular).
For the purpose of this application, we ask candidates to review at the attached Application Task. You will have the opportunity to answer the three questions once you have clicked "Apply"
Please note that this role is for an Autumn 2027 start.
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