While ESS are neither Architects nor Structural engineers, we are able to call upon the services of several of these as and when required, and if you have already engaged your own, we will be happy to work alongside them to ensure that the building as a whole is capable of accomodating your facility.

      If your project involves any major alteration to the building, or the building is to be built new, you are strongly advised to engage an architect. Your architect will be able to advise you in matters of planning consent, building regulations and other local ordinances, and handle the whole process of applying for all the necessary permissions and approvals.

      ESS will then work for you, in all respects as if we were your own technical management team, keeping your architect informed of your technical requirements.

      Many studio projects do not need an architect, but if yours does we can help you to select the right one. Most architects fall into either the 'I quite fancy doing a studio one day' category or the 'I'm never never never ever doing another studio' category, simply through a lack of awareness of how much more to acoustics there is than the acoustics module of any architecture course can hope to cover. With our help, architects in the first group do not have to end up in the second, but get to join the more select group of 'We also do studios'.

      Not all construction projects require the services of a structural engineer, but the more serious facilities tend to be built with quite a lot of steelwork and in-situ concrete, and a suitably qualified (and insured) structural engineer is a must in that situation.
If you have an architect, the usual form is for the architect to engage the structural engineer on your behalf. If you do not have an architect, and need a structural engineer, then we can again assist you in selecting one.