Services
Our Services offering brings together our three key areas of expertise - Facilities Services, IT Services and Freedom, which encompasses power, networks, professional services and infrastructure services.
What we deliver
The combined expertise of our Services division provides facilities engineering services, IT, fabric and project management services, power engineering services and land management capabilities.
We focus on offering a highly attractive end-to-end proposition for our customers across a number of markets, focusing on outstanding technical expertise, strong values and assured project delivery.
In other words, you define the output and we take care of the delivery.
Facilities Services
We know that you expect the highest standards of a facilities services provider. We are open, honest and dependable and we'll make sure that the day-to-day operation of your building runs smoothly, smartly and efficiently.
We take ownership of the technical organisational challenges any building faces; taking front-line responsibility for both performance and day-to-day management.
We apply innovation and technical competence to everything we do to give our customers the best service and value for money.
We design, connect, build, maintain and renew electricity infrastructures to ensure electricity gets to your customers safely, whenever they need it. With our expertise you’ll have high-quality electricity infrastructures that are reliable and sustainable.
We have four business units – professional services, power, networks and infrastructure services – that work together to design and consult, connect, build, maintain and renew your electrical and building infrastructures.
IT Services
Transforming connectivity to build better businesses, empower people and enrich lives.
We deliver integrated IT infrastructure and managed services which transforms what’s possible in connectivity, data management and analysis.
We achieve this through our unrivalled technical expertise, a
consultative approach and unmatched end-to-end capabilities. It’s why we’re
trusted by the NHS, Coca Cola, Fujitsu, Tesco, HSBC, and BT across sectors
including health, defence, commercial and data centres, entertainment and
venues, education and infrastructure.
Today’s digital economy is transforming the workplaces, leisure spaces and public services that we all rely upon every day. We enable digital advantage for our clients and their customers by designing, installing and managing IP-connected systems that transform the built environment.
From iconic buildings and national landmarks, to trailblazing projects in retail, leisure, urban regeneration, education, healthcare, financial services, media and science; we are enhancing the performance of businesses, organisations and public institutions everywhere - we are at the heart of this digital revolution.
We’re transforming connectivity across the globe by delivering integrated IT infrastructure including:
ADDING VALUE THROUGH OUR WIDER SERVICE OFFERING
Our Services division isn’t just a standalone aspect of our business. Our Services teams also work together with our Engineering division to offer our customers a unique and unrivalled experience which covers the whole project lifecycle - a true end-to-end solution.
Related Projects
Nightingale Hospitals Initiative
We were proud to support the fight against coronavirus by working collectively with key partners throughout the industry to create several Nightingale hospitals across the UK. Both our Engineering and Services divisions came together to deliver field hospitals in Manchester, Harrogate, Cardiff, Deeside and Bangor.
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Dagenham Data Centre
Our Freedom team was appointed to design and build an 80 MVA 132kV connection to a new data centre in the UK Power Networks region. To facilitate the connection to an existing 132kV OHL terminal tower, Freedom installed its new point of connection mast - POC-MAST™ which provided a quicker and cheaper final connection point.
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Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Q-Floor Operating Theatres, Sheffield
We played a key role in a £4.5m programme to create four new operating theatres and a recovery area to replace ageing facilities at Sheffield’s Royal Hallamshire Hospital. We have a long history with Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, having worked with them since 2002 on numerous prestige projects across the city campus including renovation its Q floor which was opened in 2019.
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Media City, Manchester
MediaCityUK is home to five national BBC departments alongside regional broadcasting teams. It houses one of the largest high definition studio facilities in Europe. We delivered the complete mechanical and electrical building services installation including a building management system, fire, security and access systems as well as specialist and temperature controls. It was the fastest project we have ever completed, with £67m of works delivered in 20 months.
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Southampton Football Club
We provided a fully comprehensive mechanical, electrical, and building fabric maintenance service at St Mary’s Stadium and the club’s Staplewood training facility. Support was also provided as the club developed its sustainability strategy to reduce its use of energy, water, and other resources. For their sustainability strategy, the HALO Effect, we have delivered a LED lighting upgrade across the reception area, which has resulted in an 83% reduction in energy use in the area. We are also working to deliver a hand dryer proposal to remove all paper towels and non-efficiency hand dryers by replacing them with more efficient dryers.
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Manchester Town Hall
We are supporting the refurbishment and partial restoration of Manchester’s prestigious town hall. The ‘Our Town Hall’ project for Manchester City Council will protect this grade I listed building, which dates back to 1877. Work is underway on the project and sees us undertaking the removal and replacement of all mechanical, electrical and plumbing services. Working together with our Engineering division, our Offsite Manufacture and IT Services business units have played an integral part in the tender process and this close working relationship will continue throughout the project.
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Manchester Engineering Campus Development (MECD)
We are playing a key role in the development of MECD, which is set to become the single-biggest home for engineering in any UK university. Working alongside Balfour Beatty to deliver the project on behalf of the University of Manchester, our works include the installation of all the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing elements over eight floors, equating to 76,000m2. Once completed it will house the University of Manchester’s engineering disciplines, teaching spaces and research institutes, and more than 6,700 students and 1,250 staff will be based there.
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The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
Treating around 50,000 patients a year, The Christie Hospital is one of Europe’s leading cancer centres. Located in Manchester and managed by The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, it not only serves a population of 3.2m people across Greater Manchester and Cheshire, but as a national specialist sees more than a quarter of patients referred to it from other parts of the country.
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Nationwide Building Society
As a leader in integrated IT and managed services in the commercial and data centre sectors, we transform what’s possible in connectivity, data management and analysis. A standout example of this expertise in action is through our work with Nationwide Building Society on behalf of its main client BT.
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EV Connectivity
Our electric vehicle infrastructure offer is meeting the increasing needs of businesses and wider society looking for vehicle charging solutions as part of the drive towards a cleaner, greener and more responsible energy future.
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